Variations - Words edition...

[Saltfountain]

Depends who’s asking

Looks around

 

[lindi_85]

Looks around

 

[Cjbdd]

Ice melts
The drink is cold
Your glass sweats in the heat
Lemonade, water, or cocktails
Drink up

 

[velona]

Great blue
heron glides by
Sun winks from behind clouds
Water laps along the dock edge
Peaceful

 

[Saltfountain]

Puddle
Melted human
The remnants of a man
Turned into just a fetid pool
Of sweat

 

[barefootgirl69]

The heat
Every summer
Becomes way, way too much
Makes me lethargic and crabby
Roasting

 

[Saltfountain]

Hot pants
Spaghetti straps
Dark nipples poking through
Boobs bouncing as she passes by
Oh god

 

[Cjbdd]

Hot pants
Spaghetti straps
Dark nipples poking through
Boobs bouncing as she passes by
Oh god

Thank you…I did look good

 

[Saltfountain]

I'm glad people liked (or seemed to like) cinquains, and found the form an easy one to work with.

This week it will be similar, as we're going to try playing around with the cinquain form...

The theme for this week is

Memories of younger days

So we're talking hopes, dreams, soaring wins, crushing defeats and all the other flotsam and jetsam of our lives so far...

And we're going to try mirror cinquains this week.

As the name suggests, once we've done the traditional cinquain as we did last week, we write some more, but with the syllable pattern reversed.

So our poems will look like

Start with
Two syllables
Then four as last week
All the way up to eight then two
Again
But now
We add the same but in reverse
Two leads to eight then six
As we come back
To two

As always, have fun. Be creative with the theme. But most of all, enjoy discovering the words that want to be written.

 

[lindi_85]

My life
Has been so short
And beautifully spent
At times I’ve wanted nothing more
But rest
And now
My memories of younger days
Slowly fade to nothing
And my life feels
Complete

 

[Saltfountain]

Nothing
Really made sense
As I was growing up.
Why I was annoyingly loud
Craving
Limelight,
And then this whole other person
Desperately withdrawn and
Attention shy?
Weirdo

 

[Awaywego]

I want;
Sunshine, tan lines,
Smiling faces, fun times,
Giggly laughter, and squinty eyes.
No lies

Most excellent @lindi_85

 

[Awaywego]

Question
What does it mean?
Can it all be our life?
How can one find meaning in it?
Answer
Well this,
Experience it, live, love, and seek
In front of you, really
Face and learn
Find it!

 

[ScarletDaisy]

I wish
I could tell her
To hold on and believe
That all would be OK one day.
I wish
I could.
But her life's experiences
Have made me who I am.
I'm thankful she
Held on.

 

[EvaLane]

Subway
tracks that go where
an alarming lack of
sensibility flows through youth
under
Above
unaware their spawn are seeking
cars full of memories
roads hold stories
relief

*oopsiessssss mirrored means MIRRORED! Thank youuuuuuuuuu

 

[Saltfountain]

Playing
Out until dark...
Jumpers used as goalposts...
Piling round someone's house for tea...
Bring back
Childhood!
Now I have reached an age where I
Can appreciate it,
That life is out
Of reach

 

[NC_Coastal]

The beach
She still whispers
Drawing me to the edge
Salt air and Coppertone sex wax
19
Summers
The women were all girls back then
At least they all thought so
I had it made
Lifeguard

 

[Awaywego]

The beach
She still whispers
Drawing me to the edge
Salt air and Coppertone sex wax
19
Summers
The women were all girls back then
At least they all thought so
I had it made
Lifeguard

Very nice, also a lifeguard! Vanna walked my beaches who knew back then...

 

[NC_Coastal]

I actually met her! Not back then though.

 

[Awaywego]

Today
A circle life
Each of us live, around
When they overlap, is it fate?
Or love
Really
Do we know, it's our common ground
Paths cross, we interact
Talk, Play, learn
Future?

 

[Saltfountain]

Silence
Where once there was
Laughter, friendship and fun
Now nothing but distant echoes
Crashing
Silence
Deafening in its completeness
Haunting spirits remind
That time has gone
Ghosted

 

[Saltfountain]

Today
A circle life
Each of us live, around
When they overlap, is it fate?
Or love
Do we know, it's our common ground
Paths cross, we interact
Talk, Play, learn
Future?

Love that mate, but you missed a line of 2 out in the middle

 

[CuriousCat89]

Let’s see if I get this right!

Aging
Everyone does
Some better and some worse
A longing for more time in love
With him
With her
we learn that time is but a gift
how do we best spend it?
Wishing away
Our youth

 

[Saltfountain]

Let’s see if I get this right!

Aging
Everyone does
Some better and some worse
A longing for more time in love
With him
With her
we learn that time is but a gift
how do we best spend it?
Wishing away
Our youth

Nailed it!

 

[Wand3rlust]

I can
see you. Brown skin
Shining in the sun. You've
got your hair slicked back and sunglas-
-es on.
I can
tell you my love for you will still
be strong. After the girls
of summer have
go-one.