December Contest: Poll 1

[The Poets]

There are seven poems in this thread. Please vote for the one poem you like best. Voting in this poll will be open until midnight, Pacific Standard time on December 20, 2007. There will be a total of three polls. Make sure you vote once in each of the three polls.

If you have any questions pm The Poets or post your conversations about this contest in the Challenging Discussion thread.

Thanks to all who participate and good luck!

 

[Five_Eight]

Pardon moi, I must be in the wrong building. = )

 

[The Poets]

Poem 1

Winter Awakening by dabanshee

Rushing wind upon the snow
___________Cold
____________air
_____________filling
______________my
_______________lungs
So cold it hurts to breathe
______Exhilaration is all I feel

Nothing else like it
Awakens every cell
Reminding me
I'm very much alive

Not

_______the

groggy

_______overheated

haze

Which
___makes
_______me
_________sleep
Wondering if I'm alive

But the bitter cold
___________wind
____________that
_____________blows
______________crunch
_______________of
________________snow
_________________cracking
__________________of
___________________ice

These sights, feelings and sounds
Awaken in me

A renewed sense of life

____________One
__________where I'll
__________forever do
__________Whatever
___________it takes
_____________To

remain happy, healthy and Alive

 

[The Poets]

Poem 2

december by ElmerGlew

torn tendons of yellow ribbon
lie tangled here and there

some animal
with its determined claws
sliced through the paper skin
disemboweling this gift

mother gathers the remains
for burial in the fireplace, whispers
mistah kurtz—he dead





(egg)

 

[The Poets]

Poem 3

December by UnderYourSpell

Sugar frosted berries and cobwebbed
lace strung amid the remnants
of a summer lost to winters thrall.
Silent flakes drift into hidden hollows
and stark trees break to the burden,
now hushed, waiting, as the earth
sleeps in an iron grip.
Come morning the crisp snow betrays
the passing of small creatures of the night,
desperate for life in a world
hidden and lost.

 

[The Poets]

Poem 4

At winter solstice by tungtied2u

At winter solstice, season's balance
as the sun tilts towards the New Year
leaning towards light, illuminated optimism
perhaps next year

we will tip the beggar, against all odds
the payback will outweigh the investment
hope versus heartache, lay your money down
it's a gamble at best

the sky falls.snowflakes transform landscape
into a silhouette. Shadows and profiles pose,
prolific pretenders, motives obscured
with cold calculations

where is warmth and welcome? hidden
beneath drifts of benevolence, awaiting discovery
the gift beneath the tree, unadorned
unexpected, without expectation

 

[The Poets]

Poem 5

by mojo_cat


all this in winter...

________these quiet strawlike emotions I do not trust them

faithless, heatless woman staring trembling through the drapes at the

____________________________________________________sun.

burnished lips and nails and somehow
soothing black sheets
in a room too full of violence
to sleep in more than once

__December is a dream

__________________warm and soft and (nothing that happens
_____________________in December is ever fully real) vaguely wet


__________________________________every flake has shining Eyes

_it all seems to fall by like weightless snowflakes
and melt on your tongue

_this intransigence is a dream

_________that waits and hides
_________behind thick oh Yes
_________eyes

 

[The Poets]

Poem 6

Swallowed In The Snow by ramonathompson

Playin' in a Winter wonderland
Doing such naughty things
She's down on her knees
Working that magic
Blowing me away with all the many charms of her sweet kisses
The snow isn't the only thing coming down
In a scene set for
A seduction in the snow


She knows just how to work it
Got me losin' my mind
Throwing my head back wildly and calling her name
Excited to think
That strangers may come along and join in
A seduction in the snow


Christmas time
And she's decking my balls
With licks of Holly
My jingle bells are ringing
As she moves me ever closer
To unwrapping for her
The biggest present of them all


Can't believe this is happening
Oh orgasm!
Here I cum!
Full force
Into her eager wet kiss
With a drink sweeter then any eggnog
It's a merry Christmas indeed


For a seduction in the snow!

 

[The Poets]

Poem 7

THE WINTER by jadeQ
In December,
the warmth of your body,
the grace of your touch,
I remember.

In my cold bed alone,
not from passion
but from absence
I groan.

To melt the frost,
my hands feel my skin
my body recalls you
inside me lost.

But nothing will do,
not the fantasies,
not the other men,
nothing but you.

 

[The Poets]

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