Group Poetry: Same Illustration

[WickedEve]

Since things have slowed down for the Same Title Challenge (unless xtaabay's snuggle bear is one) and The Poet's group poem isn't going anywhere fast, how about a group illustrated poem? I have a picture on smithpeter's pic-a-thon II thread that I was going to use but I'm willing to share it. We can post poems on this thread that are inspired by the photo. Then after a week or so, using The Poets username, I can submit the photo along with all the poems (giving credit to each participating poet). That way the reader will see the one photo and beneath it a group of individual poems.
Let me know if you're interested and then we can fine tune this challenge.

Here's the photo or we could use another one:

http://home.ntelos.net/~iloveyou/nightday.jpg

 

[WickedEve]

A Mellow Monday in Meadowville

A spry chase wound through the valley
as spindly gents, with caps set for Penelope,
courted disaster in black chiffon illusion.

Leaping from Purgatory Peak,
with trailing tail of beaus behind,
woo-able gal skipped away
from splatter of splintered suitors.

Penelope now awaits another day
of adoration for the sinister spinster.

 

[WickedEve]

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[WickedEve]

And something new I have for the less adventurous

http://home.ntelos.net/~iloveyou/oldgate.jpg

 

[Lauren Hynde]

The first one is my favourite. You can count on me, I like this idea.

Need time to come up with something good enough, though...

 

[WickedEve]

The first one is neat. I took 3 photos and then put them together to get that one.
Take all the time you need, L. When there are enough poems and no one else is responding, I'll submit what we have. We'll need to think of a title later.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I'm still fooling around with a couple of ideas for this. Don't dispair.

And by the way, I really like A Mellow Monday in Meadowville. The picture it paints is so surreal and precise at the same time that it's difficult to understand which came first, the poem or the image. The alliterations really work too. You know how to choose your words.

 

[Senna Jawa]

the x-ray boy and the cat

 


  the x-ray boy and the cat



            i used to enjoy
            my little diary
            locked with a golden key
            and the little conversations
            with my cute sister and a couple of girlfriends

            but you my x-ray boy
            called me a cat and
            were nagging share share

            now that you have won
            and i am translucent
            have a good look at me
            because comes the dawn
            and this cat is gone


 

 

[Senna Jawa]

volcano's smoke

 


  volcano's smoke


            the night sky fills my lungs
            the sheets of dim air
            cling to my skin
            the brown earth
            reaches up my thighs

            darkness
            i know you so well


 

 

[Dirt Man]

Tomorrow Is Today's Truth...

I nestled in that place
between asleep, and awake
an erotic fairytale in the making
as moons, and stars danced
in onyx sable, and blue thoughts.
~
Listening to the silence
of each moment
I breathed in eternity
and closed my eyes
to yesterday.

 

[honeysucklerose]

Hi...

Nice idea. I wouldn't mind making a go at it.


night ripening

tension
a web ebbing
across
the abdomen
blind night
anesthesia
fulcrum
of sight
timeless
blackness
conscious
slackness
together
melded
as a head
molded
peaked
disparaged
morning light
musters courage
swollen belly
readied
earthen feet
steadied
black moon magic
the light within

 

[stargirl32]

http://home.ntelos.net/~iloveyou/nightday.jpg


The birth of an idea.

fluttering soft wings
Like butterflies.
It announced its presence
Fed off my blood
Grew stronger.

Developed dreams
and thoughts.
Slept as
Limbs of steel
grew to
Distort my body



splitting me
Open, in waves
Of earthquake
pain.volcanic
forces Pushed
it forth
A new idea.

 

[Guest]

...

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Requiem

revolve blood 'til your tongue's a weapon
reveal the sky in time-delayed photograms
reel in the undergrowth of stellar requiem
rise with the moon in rapine enhancement
resolve creation in the rite of dying

repeat    remake    reunite    restart
(remorse was not to love too much)   reverberate--

 

[Angeline]

*

 

[Lauren Hynde]

...

Get your poem back here, Mr.

 

[Senna Jawa]

Re: Eclipsed

Late last week the Sun
rimmed fire behind the moon
an eclipse came one day
too soon leaving me outside
I watched the sun conceal its face
I am so odd now, as if no more
within the human race.

I feel I must burp stars
be embraced in rings of blue
I don't know why I feel this way
I wish I may, I wish I might
I wish I knew.

I'm hungry again
I feel as if I need to eat
for two.

Literotica has cut out a half of the title, I guess. The full title is:

        Eclipsed & Pregnant


Best regards--your perfect editor always at your service, Angeline,

 

[Angeline]

Eclipsed & Pregnant

Best regards--your perfect editor always at your service, Angeline,

Even you'll have to admit that I know more about being pregnant than you, and I *never* once felt like burping stars, lol.

love,
Angeline

p.s. pick me up some pickles and ice cream on the way back to the board, will you?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Shall we submit these now or wait for some more to be added?

 

[WickedEve]

I think we have enough. I'll get them together in a word doc and submit them. I'm not sure how long it will take to show up.

 

[WickedEve]

Does anyone have a suggestion for the title? The poem will be submitted under The Poets. Something along the lines of... umm... One Image Many Voices? I don't know, think of something.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

How about just One Image? Or let's at least count the voices.

 

[Angeline]

well according to senna, i'm two.

 

[WickedEve]

Senna are you submitting both poems for the first image? The gate image isn't being used.

How about 1 Image 7 Voices? Or we can go with One Image.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

1 Image 7 Voices is my favourite.