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Parsat
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This is a bit of a forum game, but at the same time it has the capacity to result in a bit of poetry, so it goes here. I'm going to supply a line of poetry, and the following poster is to create a poem using the line I gave as their first. Along with their poem, they supply a line for the next person to write poetry on. No restrictions on the type of line or poetry; just keep the line open ended.

Here's the first line:

A mountain pokes out awkward in the mist

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TackyCrazyTNT
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I know! There was one about waffles earlier. :/

paralysis of sleep, drifting deep,
To passages of mind and thoughts I keep.
Falling, crawling, the enthralling
scenes of horror do unfold.
The venom spreads and I do dread
Sleeping as the wights take hold.
Guilty thoughts that sting and ring
All the wrongs forgot for long now sing.
My ears ring with fears diving
To the withered ground through striving,
Crushing those opposing with my boots,
Only to be tripped by the ragged roots.
I flee fast from demons past,
Glaring, staring with spiteful eyes.
I cannot hide inside my own head,
And I stumble
My world crumbles
And it is silent
As the dead.

Holy mackerole that took a long time. Will I get ninja'd? Will I? will I?

TackyCrazyTNT
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Failure, no first line.

I'd rather stay

Holladay15
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I'd rather stay
I dont want to leave
I dont want to go away
I like this air that i breath

The memories I made
The friends i know
This was where my life was made
I just cant go

Borken telephone

TackyCrazyTNT
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I'm going to guess that's

Broken telephone
Nothing but buzzing static
I try to place a call
But realize it is futile
Civilization is dead.

Centuries

Holladay15
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Centuries
Thats how long we will be remembered
even by the animals and trees
we will triumph

We dont do it for riches
But, for the glory
and while we fight the good fight
people will speak of our story

every creature
even the bees
will remember us for sure
Centuries

Passing by

Endscape
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Between my fangs you will feel
The darkened gaze of death.
And as my jaws bite down
You'll breathe your final breath.
I'll devour all of your heart,
Your soul and dreams are mine,
And as you struggle to be free,
Only rusty chains you'll find.
Who am I? You ask as I coil,
Inside my hellish lair,
And I say, grin spreading wide,
I am called despair.

and this is why i try not...... such beauty out of adversity no?

passing by
passing by that over-bearing door, sleeps my love forever more. We walk to school and days go by, i tell her "i love her" and we wave good bye. Sweet days become weeks, weeks become months, months become years, and i do not know it, an omen is coming but she never showed it. To my dement i see one day, a moving van going far far away. She blew me a kiss with tears in her eyes, and i fell to my knees and started to cry. WHY WHY WHY, would she leave, we said we'd be together no one would ever leave, then it all came to a hault as i cryed in a daze, i have been a mouse lost in a maze. 15 years it has been now, off to college to forfill her vow, "a doctor" a doctor she said to me, i remember her face filled with glee. Here i am now tall as a tree, she went off, but it must be we. To her studies, to my studies we have gone, years go by and i have gone, to school, to paradise, to hell, to university, never forgetting this trajedy.... Now we stand at the alter, she a doctor, i a lawyer, i give her my ring and say "i do" never again we be two,
FOREVER MORE, ME AND YOU.
TackyCrazyTNT
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Well this is sad. I hate it when this dies.

Forever more, me and you
How I implore, me and you
We will dance, me and you
Give it a chance, me and you
We shall live, me and you
Nothing to give, me and you

Me and you, we'll laugh away our fears
Me and you, we'll cry away all our tears
But you'll move on and leave me here
Standing atop a high cliff pier.
The earth has never seemed so clear.
It is goodbye, my love, I fear.

Well that turned out more depressing than I thought it would. :P

Don't let me die

Paarfam
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Don't let me die
Go and let him deify
The great, new deserving
One, who is he, the one who ring
Ah, I shall now bid adieu
As this poem, sense it doesn't make
Then again, doesn't the world not make sense?

Of course it doesn't stranger.

Parsat
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Of course it doesn't, stranger,
It won't save you from danger.
If you can't wield it right,
No guarantees on saving life.

Jealousy, the green-eyed monster

Teeheegirl123
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Jealousy,the green-eyed monster
Is hard to keep as a pet
It clings just like a sweater
And roars if you forget

It's terribly hard to care for
It feeds on envy and hate
And if you're not real careful
Your mind it has certainly ate

So here I am with Jealousy
I wished we wouldn't have met
All I need to cure it though
Is a painless trip to the vet

My words are alphabet soup

barney003
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The life is one,
and we all have a gun,
Pull the trigger, and
have the fun.

Endscape
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.....

have the fun.
Have some fun my friend, for life will surely come to an end. Unknown to us all, there will be a final curtain call. So have some fun while u can, before u are an old man. Enjoy these days runing, jumping, laughing, HOORAYY, become u reach ur final day. Play, play, play all day, run laugh, listen i say. These days are numbered for u and i, one day we will wave bye, good bye. Before u know an adult u will be, no running, laughing, climbing trees. So to u i say ENJOY YOUR LIFE, dont let it end in old man's strife.

To you dread demon I give my life

IcyIndia
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My words are alphabet soup.
They're scrambled and tired; they droop
into new forms that make no sense.

I have no reasoning to give.
This is who I am; soup is slipping
through the cracks
and trailing words on the floor.
Thoughts I could never have.

Thoughts that have no reason.


Drifts, lines in the sand
Quirinus1
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To you dread demon I give my life,
To you dread demon, is my sacrifice.
To you loved god is my wife,
full of tricks and of vice.


Blossom of the everlasting tree
TackyCrazyTNT
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Uh....Uh....which line should I choose? DX

Blossom of the everlasting tree
Waiting for centuries to be free
Rooted to the same withered spot
Fated to live and never rot.
It's tangled roots reach ever deep
And into the Earth they forever creep
Holding the jagged rocks together
It will last but till forever.

Calling Ravens

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