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Parsat
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2,180 posts
Blacksmith

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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IcyIndia
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1,344 posts
Nomad

Welcome to the real world,
A voice speaks out of the darkness.
Welcome to Life.

A wondrous view,
like nothing I've seen before.
Beautiful things, trapped in a mirror.
It isn't real. I can't reach it.

This cannot be the real world.
Those things I used to know seem
Gray and blank, dull. But they were real.
I knew life before.
What is it now?

Christmas bells are ringing

MoonFairy
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3,386 posts
Shepherd

Christmas bells are ringing
In September.
Don't know why they are,
Cause it's still Fall.
They're ringin' a bit early in the season,
Normally they're ringin when it's freezin.
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I made this to a tune in my head, so it probably makes no sense when you read it from a poetry standpoint....

Raspberry poptart

StormWalker
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StormWalker
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Jester

rasperry poptart
as red as blood
who knows
who died
today?

if anyone died
did anyone die?
we all will feel sad
not for long
though

snakes in their skin
_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
more nonsense, sorry

Maverick4
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Maverick4
6,800 posts
Peasant

Raspberry poptart.
Mockery is now a food;
Taste just like my pain.

*A 'raspberry' is when you stick out your tung, put your hands in your ears, and go 'nyah-nyah-nyah'. For clarification.

As lonely as I am.

dair5
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dair5
3,371 posts
Shepherd

My boat out in the sea,
I'll watch you in regret.
As I reilize i shouldn't have let you go,
You've already discovered all the fish in the sea.

I fall...

EmperorPalpatine
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EmperorPalpatine
9,439 posts
Jester

I fall...
Plummet...
Downward...
Descend...
Hopeless...
KERSPLAT!

The world is cold and dead

EmperorPalpatine
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EmperorPalpatine
9,439 posts
Jester

Epic fail for not refreshing the page...

On top of the dusty dunes
Lies my only salvation:
I will be there soon,
I am filled with elation.

Repairing that downed plane
Could truly set me free
And so my muscles strain;
Too bad I'm a quadruple-amputee...

The world is cold and dead

IcyIndia
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IcyIndia
1,344 posts
Nomad

I'm gonna start a new one since it's been about a week and nobody's posted. So..

It's not that
I cared about the cartoons
more than you,
I just didn't want to see you
like that.
I was scared.

Fire in your eyes

TackyCrazyTNT
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Peasant

I should really get into the habit of writing a poem every day again. :P
Haiku time!
This is going to be really bad.

Fire in your eyes,
Consuming my heart and mind,
All I am is dust.

I can't escape you.
Nunc scio quid sit amor,
And it burns like fire.

Make something better

Parsat
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Parsat
2,180 posts
Blacksmith

Make something better
Like a pie or a cake.
Don't sit on your tush, now,
Stop being a flake.

On and off, on and off

knight_34
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Farmer

On and off, on and off
Bright lights are flickering
Calm pierced by eerie coughs
Now no more bickering.

Muskrats speak to me in morse code

EmperorPalpatine
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EmperorPalpatine
9,439 posts
Jester

Muskrats speak to me in Morse Code,
Their feet taping in my abode,
They tell me secrets; things untold,
Like how to make Jell-O in a mold!

I am the king of this land

greenpeople2007
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greenpeople2007
399 posts
Nomad

This land so large
With it's beauty and grace
I rule with a peaceful hand
In truth they find my living grand

The rocks no longer role

IcyIndia
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IcyIndia
1,344 posts
Nomad

The rocks no longer roll;
Time has been taken
from all of us.
Silence is
only
here.
Movement
surrounds us,
but it is not
reachable. We are
Not allowed to feel it.

I have become my actor

CommanderDude7
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4,689 posts
Nomad

I have become my actor
Not some silly prospector
But a guy with a tractor
Plowing fields like a contractor

The flower died

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