Challenge: Clichés

[vampiredust]

This challenge is simple, post a cliché and write a poem about it or using it in some way

I'll start with the cliché 'pushing up daisies'

 

[vampiredust]

Pushing Up Daisies

You see adverts for this exercise
on Oprah sometimes, the regional
organiser looking pale and a little
unhealthy. She tells the audience

it's simple. You can do it at night
in bed or wherever you want.
Just think of somewhere dark
and cold - a cavern maybe -

with all those things you dislike.
Use those as you pillow as you
trip and fall, waking up somewhere
hot. You can feel the pounds
quite literally dropping off.

 

[ShyErraticTable]

Triolet on the Erotic Cliché "Sweet Nectar"

We were entwined in some erotic play.
Between her legs I tasted nectar sweet.
Can nectar, though, be flavored other ways?
We were entwined in some erotic play.
No matter, for I crave it anyway—
not Dionysus' wine makes such a treat.
We were entwined in some erotic play.
Between her legs I tasted nectar sweet.

 

[champagne1982]

Cliché

Don't limit your choices to a single
dish when you can dine at a buffet
there are as many choices
as there are trees in the forest
and one falls no one sees
since it didn't make a sound.

 

[FifthFlower]

Take It All In

She would take it all in
Any time that she could:
Any time he'd begin,
He would end feeling good.

 

[FifthFlower]

Depth of the Soul

Faking Only the Depth of the Soul Part

Sure, she'll say he went in
To the depth of her soul,
But at six inches thin,
He has further to go.

 

[Genie_69]

Writer's Block

Writer's block
More intimidating than the schoolyard bully -
Blank, fresh paper:
An endless sea of white that yearns to be stained;
Pen in hand,
Ink drips from its tip, begging to become art
Before creativity runs dry.
Suspended in midair,
It fails to deliver.

 

[bluerains]

Within, Without

Heartache greets
dawns distilled promises
with phantom painted wings.
Dreams can fly
why oh why can’t I?