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03-16-2004, 02:22 AM
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peas o kayk
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Challenge: The Perfect Ten (v2.0)
Breathing a new life to the challenge that Icingsugar brought to us almost two years ago.
Remember the purpose. In Icingsugar's own words:
Can we find that perfect ten? A short line or two that says more than any brick sized novel on the bookshelf?
My own writting is often talkative, verbal and lengthy, spreading adjectives and adverbs like manure. Flowery speech can be nice, but It's always healthy to practice what you're less good at. I'll see if this can help me refine my expression and churn out the essentials. So, once again.
Here be Poems.
Poetry in any freewheelin' form.
As long as they are ten words or shorter.
- The Poets
Last edited by The Poets : 10-17-2005 at 10:03 AM.
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10-12-2005, 01:51 PM
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Hellbent for Leather
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Ten perfect words.
Such a small,
yet seemingly impossible,
aspiration.
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10-12-2005, 01:54 PM
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save an apple, eat eve
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you can't crush me
with just ten stones
but words...
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10-12-2005, 03:08 PM
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Cunnilingus Ergo Sum
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Carve away the fat
until the meat
shows bloody red...
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10-12-2005, 03:15 PM
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Arch Angel
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Don't force readers
to toss the bad apples:
edit!
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Horses wish they were hung like me.
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10-12-2005, 10:43 PM
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Dangerous Liaison
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Originally Posted by flyguy69
Don't force readers
to toss the bad apples:
edit!
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An old saw: Don't throw
out the baby with the bathwater.
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Get Carrie'd away.
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10-12-2005, 10:49 PM
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smiling for the camera
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Restless tides
Alter sand and beaches
Leaving an ocean’s trash
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10-12-2005, 10:49 PM
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smiling for the camera
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Moonlit nights
Bleach out color
Leave black
And its white
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10-13-2005, 12:23 AM
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Literotica Guru
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Love takes many forms
but not all fit the norm
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10-13-2005, 07:37 AM
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Master Glomper
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Originally Posted by The_Fool
Restless tides
Alter sand and beaches
Leaving an ocean’s trash
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Driftwood, gnarled and
mangled, yet rubbed ever so smooth,
Precious.
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10-13-2005, 07:51 AM
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528 inception
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jungle rocks...
sounds of natures's beat
lost in concrete streets
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10-13-2005, 08:29 AM
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Let the mind roam free
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Pat Robertson's in the news ... ... again!!!!
little man speak big words,
feed off mankind's frenzied fears
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my tribute (?) to him in "End Times?" should be out tomorrow.
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-- from the convoluted mind of LogicalLeon 
"...the poet's function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen..." Aristotle Poetics
"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare." Spinoza
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." Hypatia of Alexandria
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 - 1956)
"The power to do things for you is the power to do things to you." Dorothy Parker
Submissions from
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Last edited by LeBroz : 10-13-2005 at 03:48 PM.
Reason: correcting spelling
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10-13-2005, 09:40 AM
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Hellbent for Leather
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The perfect word
to describe our love?
Always.
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10-13-2005, 10:34 AM
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Cunnilingus Ergo Sum
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She came for lunch
and stayed forever;
I hunger still....
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10-13-2005, 02:06 PM
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Tell me how you want it
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forget the
'what ifs'
it's the
'I dids'
that count...
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Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
By Paul Engle
~ Jennifer C 
~ Poetry and Dreams
~ New Poem ~ Sometimes
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10-13-2005, 02:30 PM
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Really Really Experienced
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stones?
meat?
apples?
sand?
beach?
driftwood?
Ahhh, yes...
poetry, indeed.
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10-13-2005, 04:05 PM
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Really Experienced
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Is true recognition
a glance away
or forever beyond
witness?
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Do I have to answer that?
MyInsanity
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein
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10-13-2005, 05:01 PM
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528 inception
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Originally Posted by cymry
Is true recognition
a glance away
or forever beyond
witness?
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authenticity
transmutates archaic mold
past, present, future
all same as one....
Last edited by bluerains : 10-13-2005 at 06:09 PM.
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10-13-2005, 09:00 PM
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Really Experienced
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Originally Posted by bluerains
authenticity
transmutates archaic mold
past, present, future
all same as one....
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Past, present, future
artificially partitioned,
fractured
spinning apart into
nothing...
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Do I have to answer that?
MyInsanity
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein
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10-13-2005, 09:06 PM
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528 inception
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Originally Posted by cymry
Past, present, future
artificially partitioned,
fractured
spinning apart into
nothing...
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nothing says I am
pan flutes laugh digesting fraility
saying "dance with me"
and I say...yes.. 
Last edited by bluerains : 10-13-2005 at 09:08 PM.
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10-13-2005, 09:28 PM
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Really Experienced
cymry is offline
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While Pan pipes
flaunt their youth,
frailty supplants
strength unrelentingly.
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Do I have to answer that?
MyInsanity
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein
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10-14-2005, 02:20 AM
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Literotica Guru
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fishin'
fish fry
hushpuppy dipped
gonna go fishin
are ya cummin?
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10-14-2005, 09:19 PM
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smiling for the camera
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so few places left to write
fewer yet to read
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10-15-2005, 05:30 AM
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Literotica Guru
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Tooting
your horn.
Lips puckered,
moistened.
Slow winded,
welcoming
blow.
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10-15-2005, 05:40 AM
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Literotica Guru
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so few places left to write
fewer yet to read
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Can I
hug
you?
Teddy Bear
Grizzly Cub
My Fool ~
* Sighs Dreamily *
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