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Verlecia F Sep 30
compulsively drip and run
down my fingers and into my mouth

someone please
count my fingers
and toes
lord knows, one may
be missing
if they are covered in chocolaty
brown gold

chocoholic, is my Hall of fame
covered in chocolate is my
sugar brown dream
Write a poem for contest Color Poem - Courageous Poet
Write a poem about your favorite color and how it makes you feel.
Verlecia F Sep 30
Pieces of A Wet Paper Heart (contest)(In the voice of The Great Patsy Cline)

"You want me to act like we've never kissed"
          (Pasty Cline - i fall to pieces)
but the "Sweet Dreams" of our last kiss
made me "Crazy"
then I've ever been

so, I go out
'Walkin' After Midnight"
just to chase
the feeling
of a "Faded Love" away
saying to myself
"I've Loved and Lost Again"
and will i ever love again

just
"A Church, a Courtroom, Then Goodbye"
that left your "Fingerprints" of "Heartaches"
so
"I Don't Wanta" love you anymore
but "I Love You, Honey"
"I Love You So Much It Hurts"

"I'll Sail My Ship Alone"
"Today, Tomorrow and Forever"
and it will be
"There He Goes"
walking away from me
singin' "I'm Moving Along"

and i be crying "That's My Desire"
he took my whole heart
and he was my "Walkin' Dream"

"Who Can I Count On"
to love me now
"Why Can't He Be You"

"Yes I Understand"
"Your Kinda Love"
"You're Stronger Than Me"
"You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)"

it so "Strange"
"She's Got You"
and i wish i was
in her "Shoes"

"Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)"
and i may not
"Stop, Look and Listen"
but just
"Turn the Cards Slowly"
"Then You'll Know"
the difference between
"A Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold)"

"Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home"
"The Heart Your Break My Be Your Own"
"Hidin' Out" "***** Tonk Merry-Go-Round"
"Hungry for Love" in all the wrong places

aka: lyricvixen
by: Verlecia f.
4-14-2022 Thursday
Write a poem for contest A line from a favorite song... - CRL 17
Big Points...
Start a poem with a line from one of your favorite songs.
Then build your poem around that line.
Example - "God only knows what I'd be without you"...from Beach Boys God Only Knows.
Keep it around 250 words, more or less.  No prewrites. No Haiku.
IMPORTANT: in the AN put the song title that you used the line from, must be there or your poem will be eliminated...
Remember to start your poem with the line from a song and build your poem from there.
Use all your poetic and musical talents to create this poem / story... Have fun, can't wait to see what you come up with... © Apr '22   coronavirus • love • pain • the-great-patsy-cline • contest • teen (allpoetry.com)
Jeremy Betts Aug 15
You're heartless and cold
Leaving my heart a mess
You pieced out your soul
Mine fell prey to your emptiness
Was it your plan to let go?
I wonder as I struggle with the process
I believed in what I was sold
You bragged like this was a side quest
I didn't notice I was enrolled
In your narcissistic contest
You were waiting for me to fold
Ready for another conquest
You reveled in my fall
You mocked my best
I gave you my all
You left me the rest

©2024
Jeremy Betts Jan 20
I find everyday is either a challenge or a test with little too no time for rest
No time to reflect so I digress
No one there when I confess, only after a sneeze am I blessed
Mocked and laughed at for simply making a mess that my life reflects
Heart trying to beat out of my chest as I push through this bogus quest
Win or lose, I can always count on another hardship coming up next
Perplexed 'cause I can't tell if it's god or the devil trying to flex
Guess they'd have to prove their existence first and not only at the exits
But the names not Job, I will surrender to this hex, it's a guarantee, I've placed my Betts
I will say this, I tried my best but don't think I should've ever been allowed to enter this contest
Will go down as the perfect example of a bad contestant
I didn't ask for this complex nonsense
I'd be hard pressed to find any arguments to the contrary to try and digest
But to fit into the mold that best reflects the rest, I speak of the witnessed hardships of my life in jest

©2024
Anais Vionet Jan 9
(Written for a contest “Write a poem based on a poem.’
Inspired by: “My Cat Is High, and So Am I” by Thomas W. Case
)

Honey, I was ******, so ******.
I hardly knew what was going on.
That’s when I saw it was gone.

The moon, I mean - hold on -
Takes a swig of ****, but sugary lemonade
I watch the moon - when it’s there - you know?

I’ve always loved the moon - its reflective glamor,
the way it seems to bend light around it,
like a beautiful woman walking into a bar.

The moons like my cat, she has beauty, without vanity
- and without much gravity - like, you know - the moon.

But as I was saying, it was gone - suddenly?
It felt sudden - and visceral - like I’d misplaced something.
I know what you’re thinking, and no, it wasn't behind clouds.

So anyway, man, I looked around and there it was, as if by magic,
it couldn’t have been any clearer and it's never looked nearer,
than it was, right there, in my rear-view mirror.

I had to laugh. You see, I was ****** - so ******.
****** - but I’m never alone, when I can commune with the distant,
inconstant, love of my life, the ever-argent moon.
BLT Marriam Webster word of the day challenge: Visceral: a triggering, instinctive emotional response.
Ken Pepiton Jan 2023
Que Sera, Sera, Whatever will be

We are what we eat, what we absorb, what we take in,
this is mine,
I taste and find, mmmm, worth a chew, slow said
the voice,
of the caterpillar,
of course,
smoke rings,
from the smoke stack
on a D-9 Cat, stuck in the mud,
since November,
till summertime,

lowland realization, land too flat, don't drain.

I jes' set'n'look at that,
Chrome Yeller Caterpillar, worth more than I made,
in ten years after the army,

and I laugh, at how I ain't bound to fret,
or fuss,
no nonsense was ever actually more than literaturely true.
Que Sera, Sera, Whatever will be, was on the clipboard and got here before I made sense enough to stop it from wising off.
neth jones Apr 2022
that devil Billy Brate got nerve
took me to the green woods all excited
but t'was all for piping like Pan
       just what he was giddy for
             and i a reclined detainee to fawn

hollow reed whittled finger holes
he challenged natures birdsong
      and came up shrill and dry
hollow reed
      and i am boredom fed under duress
(how a girl
      can mock up an impressed
                                       gaze of awe)
it's all exhibit
a picture for his court mates to deride
he can swell his fellas with the media ;
he mistook another girl
           down deep in Foxlease Thicket
Written for a contest. Contest closed early. This would have been the entry. The challenge was to do a poem inspired by an old print of a young guy and girl hanging out in the woodlands. He plays on a pipe whilst she lies there with a neutral expression on her face. The instruction is to channel Silvia Plath. I fell short on that front.
MS Anjaan Oct 2021
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GaryFairy Sep 2021
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