Awkward Situations Poetry Challenge

[WickedEve]

I started to post this 2 or 3 months ago, and for some reason, I didn't do it. Fortunately, (or unfortunately lol) I saved it.

After starting a thread about a breakup during a wedding, I started thinking about other awkward situations. Life is full of them! Anyway, they can make for some interesting poetry.

Below, I listed a couple of awkward situations and a list of must-use words that I hope will inspire some poems.
(Or you can come up with your own awkward situation.)

The Guidelines:
Use at least 2-3 words or more out of the list below (you can change tense or make plural.)
Other than that, you can do as you please.

1. A woman is asked out (or hit on) while she is in labor. She can be married or single. Just imagine if it's the doctor. Maybe it's a nurse. "Breathe! Push! And how about dinner next Friday night?"

2. You go to a family reunion and meet the man/woman you had a one night stand with a couple of months ago. This person turns out to be the new spouse of your aunt/uncle, cousin, etc. Even though this person is not a blood relation, you still feel weird about it... especially when your new family member comes on to you!

List:

Video
Plastic
Salsa
Cheese
Twist
Hickey
Boot
Fishnet
Moon
Grass
~
Elephant
Spider
Magenta
Horn
Ribbon
Cane
Flip
Swim
Vibrate
Club

Now I need to write a poem for my own challenge. Thinking...

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Hehehe

I love these challenges (and I'm still going to write a terzanelle, too )

Just explain one thing: those two awkward situations, are we supposed to pic one of them, or were they just examples and we can go with whatever situation we can think of?

 

[WickedEve]

Hehehe

I love these challenges (and I'm still going to write a terzanelle, too )

Just explain one thing: those two awkward situations, are we supposed to pic one of them, or were they just examples and we can go with whatever situation we can think of?

You can pick one of those. But if you can think of some other awkward situation, go for it. I bet you can come up with something really bizarre! lol
I got really busy yesterday, so I'm still working on a poem about the family reunion.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Missing Poet.
Has anyone heard from smithpeter since 6/20? Please PM me if you have.

Maybe he went on a fishing trip with Senna Jawa. Has anyone seen him around either?

 

[JUDO]

I love this when it happens.

A Knock at the Door

Small steamy room
Water cascades down
My mind wades through scenes
Of fingers and cock.

In the midst of revelry
Bangs a hollow unwelcome.
On my hotel room's door
Are three fingers that knock.

Wet headed and dripping
I call out loud
But three knocks return
My lovers must wait.

Wrapped in a towel
Bare toes cross the tile.
Hands pressed to my breast.
"This is so like my fate!"

The door swings open,
But the hallway is bare.
I step out to look
And behind me, a "click."

I turn to my right
But I'm stuck fast and held
My door's locked and closed
On my towel too quick.

The knob presses hard
On my butt as I struggle
I grab it and turn
But it won't budge an inch.

I pull and I twist.
I yank and I jump.
The towel starts to fall
But I catch and I cinch.

A ding down the hall
And two doors slide apart.
An old couple approaches
In panic, I compose.

The man doffs his hat
His lady squints and frowns
As I smile a merry smile
And wriggle my toes.

What shall I do?
How can this be?
I can't go or stay
And my butt's freezing off.

Long hallway footseps –
Young bellman approaches.
I blush and explain
And he smiles with a cough.

A card is produced
And he reaches around
But I fall in his arms
With my bare behind.

Surprised and alarmed
He stares in my eyes,
But one thing's awake
And it's not in my mind.

I grin as does he
And the card finds its home
Walking backwards, we enter
My room joined as one.

I kiss him and pull
Off his clothes with my teeth
As fingers and cock
Appear for our fun.

The old couple walks
By my towel on the floor
And they wonder what's happened
To the girl there…before.

 

[WickedEve]

Re: I love this when it happens.

Hey, the same thing happened to me last week!

 

[JUDO]

I just realized I didn't even try to use any of your words. Gah! I'll go back later and try to find good places for them...


- Judo

 

[WickedEve]

I just realized I didn't even try to use any of your words. Gah! I'll go back later and try to find good places for them...


- Judo

I'm sure you'll find a place for words like cheese and magenta. lol

 

[Rybka]

LOL

I'm sure you'll find a place for words like cheese and magenta. lol

ToeJam Footballs ?

 

[WickedEve]

Re: LOL

ToeJam Footballs ?

Toejam! Ewww!

Judo, do you think it would be naughty of me if I didn't write a poem for my own poetry challenge? I'm feeling mentally constipated. I think it's all that cheese.

 

[Unmasked Poet]

A great challenge Eve!

Judo, that is quite the situation.

U.P.

 

[WickedEve]

Thanks U.P.! Hey, why don't you participate! I'd love to read a U.P. poem.

 

[Unmasked Poet]

Laughing,laughin,laughing,laughing still laughing,laughing.

Stop to catch breath and laugh...

You are kind to invite me perhaps one day! Some of us are better readers and fans than writers. Besides if I wrote a poem I would have to put down the mask I have come to love.



U.P.

 

[WickedEve]

Laughing,laughin,laughing,laughing still laughing,laughing.

Stop to catch breath and laugh...

You are kind to invite me perhaps one day! Some of us are better readers and fans than writers. Besides if I wrote a poem I would have to put down the mask I have come to love.



U.P.

You're such a wussy, UP. You're just afraid of all the poets that are dying to critique your work!

 

[WickedEve]

When Family Gets Together

Baked beans, cheese, cold beer,
and kin folks that I've forgotten,
we gather under the Summer sky.

We compare maladies,
mourn Uncle Jack's passing,
gossip about Aunt Polly's
new boy toy, Roy.

I recently met a Roy.
My hips encountered his lips
down at the Magenta Inn.

Hush, here comes Polly
and boy toy, Roy --
Roy with lips I've encountered.

 

[WickedEve]

"In and out.
Breathe deeply.
Push!
Here it comes!"
my obgyn shouts.

Memories of similar words and position
have me laboring
over Dr. Bourgeois' dinner invitation.

(Dr. Bourgeois was my obgyn. )

 

[WickedEve]

I'm worse than Judo. I forgot to use the must-use words. lol

 

[WickedEve]

Second Attempt

"In and out.
Breathe deeply.
Push!
Here it comes!
It's as big as an elephant!"
my obgyn shouts.

Memories of similar words
and twisted positions
have me laboring
over Dr. Bourgeois' dinner invitation.

 

[JUDO]

Thanks everybody! A Knock at the Door, now posted.


- Judo

 

[Sera Shine]

Began with Fishnet

Midnight salsa and cheese with pretzel twists
finally behind me and I'm peering over the edge
in this world of plastic and chrome.

"I'm ready! I'm ready!", I laugh
then I wince, screams reflecting from walls
both outer and inner.

Alone on the bed, between white pain chatter
I see my stockings in the grass
beneath the moon.

"So it began with fishnet."
I laugh into my room before I realize
I am not alone.

"Mine began with a hickey!"
The strange speaker grins
and approaches my bed

"Did you watch the video, too?"
The stranger laughs with his eyes
and mimicks lamaze

His smile is too friendly
I join his laugher, unsettled.
Where is his wife?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Another unmet challenge I dug up from the catacombs.

I'll get back to this one. Maybe

 

[Angeline]

I should be able to do this. My whole life is an awkward situation.

 

[HomerPindar]

I dunno about awkward situations, but I'm thinking of getting a new job as a bellhop...

 

[JUDO]

"And your new relative hits on you..." heh-heh, heh-heh, hmmm...

 

[Angeline]

all my relatives are old.

and Homer, I hear they tip well at the 4 Seasons....