02-05-2018, 10:12 AM
Art is not beauty, it is the lie that leads to it. - Leonora Carrington
Hey!, you people from the future: These Challenges are forever! Feel free to add something new.
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Challenge #1 - Cut Up Folktale can be found here.
Challenge #2 - Death by Words can be found here.
Challenge #3 - Utterly Mistaken can be found here.
Challenge #4 - Word Dog Run can be found here.
Challenge #5 - Queen's Dreams can be found here.
Challenge #6 - Burroughs Cut-Up can be found here.
Challenge #7 - Deep-Fried Dictionary can be found here.
Challenge #8 - Fear can be found here.
Challenge #2 - Death by Words can be found here.
Challenge #3 - Utterly Mistaken can be found here.
Challenge #4 - Word Dog Run can be found here.
Challenge #5 - Queen's Dreams can be found here.
Challenge #6 - Burroughs Cut-Up can be found here.
Challenge #7 - Deep-Fried Dictionary can be found here.
Challenge #8 - Fear can be found here.
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"Run" - Russell Lee
IISZ 2018 Challenge #8 Fear
On your doorstep, outside your room, right in back of you.
A list poem to jog your muse's memories:
What People Fear - Maria Barnas
Baths, mites, itching, acidity, alarm systems, clearings,
heights, jumping from a (small) height, vagueness,
air, draft and wind in general, vomiting, insanity.
Pain, squares, wild spinach, streets, needles, cats and animals
that resemble cats, kidney disease, chickens, garlic, opinions,
expressing opinions or receiving praise, dust, standing.
Walk, drive a car, crossing a cross diagonally,
toll roads, forgetting, scratching, looking up, swallowing air,
suffocating, England, English, English culture, flowers.
Frenzy or furious, motionlessness of a joint,
society, flooding, alone or alone,
infinity, touches, bees, people with amputations, amputations.
Sticky food, spiders, figures, fire, fainting, thunderstorms, lightning,
stars, the universe, asymmetry, ataxia, disorder, clutter, ruins,
atomic explosions, failure, whistles, gold, northern lights, the native language.
Loneliness, self, own reflection, flying (in aircraft),
bullets and rockets, Bolsheviks, gravity, traps, depths,
unfathomable water, deep corridors, close to tall buildings.
Frogs, salamanders, books, plants, own bisexuality
or those of others, beautiful women, women, emotionally binding
to another person, mucus, ghosts or the bogeyman, toads.
Body odors, ugliness, ugliness, cancer, swarming,
heart disease, the heart in general, meat or eating meat,
ridiculed, new medicines, comets.
New ideas, cheerfulness, snow, being touched, Muslims,
Islam, Islamic culture, hair, chemicals or working
with chemicals, time, clocks, food, small or closed spaces.
Stealing, stabbing and being stabbed, bed or going to bed,
cemeteries, sexual abuse, making choices,
delayed, stuffy or laborious stools, feces in general.
Chopsticks, clowns, frost or ice, crystal, computers, bicycles,
waves or wave-like movements, steep (overhanging) rock walls,
dogs, rabies, prostitutes or venereal diseases, nosebleeds.
Painful movements of the guts, demons, crowds,
fascism, trees, the dentist, skin injury or wounds, skin diseases,
diabetes, drinking, dining or conversation during dinner, the sun.
Objects on the right side of the body, vortices,
dizziness, double vision, in the presence of another undressing, houses,
skin or coat of animals, crossing the street, deformity, school.
Accidents, the church, the Netherlands, the Dutch, the Dutch language,
electricity, freedom, vomiting or vomit, belts, brushes, pins,
a mortal sin committed, criticism, the dawn, daylight, teenagers.
Knowledge, horses, blushing, working or functioning, good news, sex,
sexuality, the female sexual organ, the color red, fever, cold
or cold objects, marrying, living together, laughing, chins, immigrants.
Knees, cross bridges, grow old, old people, good taste,
speak in public, robbers or robberies, enjoy,
sunlight, infections, blood, reptiles, maniacs, materialism.
Greek terms, complex scientific terminology, fog,
Germany, Germans, German culture, saints, holy things, theology,
religion, hell, the number 666, sermons, priests, horses, long words.
Wanderers, beggars, shock, fear, homosexuality, firearms,
water, mercury-containing medicines, liquids, moisture, epilepsy,
oven gloves, whirlworms or hurricanes, eternity.
Sleep, hypnosis, the doctor, go to the doctor, fish, ideas, poison,
termites, Japan, Japanese, Japanese culture, napkins,
Jews and the Jewish religion, recorders, the feminine in itself.
Being defeated, ridicule, emptiness or empty spaces, looking at people,
stealing, chambers, fatigue, vegetables, cosmic phenomena,
dogs, bending over or bending, wipers, death.
Leprosy, the color white, lakes, rope, prosecution,
analyzes, syphilis, otters, long waiting, cooking, punishment,
machines, losing an erection, the color black, bees, meningitis.
Menstruation, being tied up, metal, changes, meteorites,
alcohol, poetry, microbes, bacteria, dirt, sponges, wrinkles,
memories, moths or moths, mice, mushrooms.
Darkness, the night, ants, myths, stories, names, false statements,
glass, clouds, hospitals, coming home, nudity, numbers,
large groups, vehicles, the figure 8, jaw surgery, wines, rain.
The home environment, smells, terrorists, eyes, dreams, wet dreams,
snakes, being accosted, prescribed medicines, watching,
birds, property, crustaceans, heaven, everything, the pope, paper, perversion.
Failure of duty, responsibility, parasites, virgins,
young girls, Friday the thirteenth, urine, urinate in the (imagined)
presence of others, heredity or hereditary diseases, lice, dolls.
Imagined crimes or sinning in public, children, bald and balding
men, baldness, poverty, eating, swallowing, being eaten, a penis
(especially in erect condition), the word penis, taking medicine.
Daylight, sunshine, kissing or kissing, infatuation,
philosophy, phobias, the telephone, your own voice or voices in general,
light or sparkle, thinking, tuberculosis, tombstones, roller blinds.
Wealth, rain, choking, beards, polio, politicians, punishment,
the color purple, alcohol, rectal disorders, the rectum,
progress, stuttering, smallpox, China, Chinese, Chinese culture.
With feathers tickled, puppets, fire, X-rays,
beaten with a stick, wrinkles, Halloween, satan,
guitars, scabies, shadows, Russia, Russians, the Russian language.
Being accustomed, becoming blind, sharks, flashes of light, the moon,
disintegrating beings, escalators, sliding doors,
reading or pronouncing long words, left-handedness.
Trains, train tracks, train journeys, conductors, libraries, credit cards,
in-laws, being assessed, dependence, artists,
semen, wasps, rising, walking, symbolism, symmetry, tablecloths.
Predictability, another displeasure, irritation or embarrassment
due to its own appearance, facial expressions, living burial,
contagiousness, bulls, technology, giving birth to a (deformed) child.
Tetanus, Germans, Germany, German culture, sitting, sea, dying
and things that make people think of dying, theaters, heat or heat,
plastic surgery, permanent injury, shaking, aggression, the number 13.
Injections, tyrants, germs, clothing, rape,
goats, Walloons, witches, witchcraft, the color yellow, the word yellow,
drought, forests, razors, jealousy, God, gods, tapeworms.
- - -
Baths, mites, itching, acidity, alarm systems, clearings,
heights, jumping from a (small) height, vagueness,
air, draft and wind in general, vomiting, insanity.
Pain, squares, wild spinach, streets, needles, cats and animals
that resemble cats, kidney disease, chickens, garlic, opinions,
expressing opinions or receiving praise, dust, standing.
Walk, drive a car, crossing a cross diagonally,
toll roads, forgetting, scratching, looking up, swallowing air,
suffocating, England, English, English culture, flowers.
Frenzy or furious, motionlessness of a joint,
society, flooding, alone or alone,
infinity, touches, bees, people with amputations, amputations.
Sticky food, spiders, figures, fire, fainting, thunderstorms, lightning,
stars, the universe, asymmetry, ataxia, disorder, clutter, ruins,
atomic explosions, failure, whistles, gold, northern lights, the native language.
Loneliness, self, own reflection, flying (in aircraft),
bullets and rockets, Bolsheviks, gravity, traps, depths,
unfathomable water, deep corridors, close to tall buildings.
Frogs, salamanders, books, plants, own bisexuality
or those of others, beautiful women, women, emotionally binding
to another person, mucus, ghosts or the bogeyman, toads.
Body odors, ugliness, ugliness, cancer, swarming,
heart disease, the heart in general, meat or eating meat,
ridiculed, new medicines, comets.
New ideas, cheerfulness, snow, being touched, Muslims,
Islam, Islamic culture, hair, chemicals or working
with chemicals, time, clocks, food, small or closed spaces.
Stealing, stabbing and being stabbed, bed or going to bed,
cemeteries, sexual abuse, making choices,
delayed, stuffy or laborious stools, feces in general.
Chopsticks, clowns, frost or ice, crystal, computers, bicycles,
waves or wave-like movements, steep (overhanging) rock walls,
dogs, rabies, prostitutes or venereal diseases, nosebleeds.
Painful movements of the guts, demons, crowds,
fascism, trees, the dentist, skin injury or wounds, skin diseases,
diabetes, drinking, dining or conversation during dinner, the sun.
Objects on the right side of the body, vortices,
dizziness, double vision, in the presence of another undressing, houses,
skin or coat of animals, crossing the street, deformity, school.
Accidents, the church, the Netherlands, the Dutch, the Dutch language,
electricity, freedom, vomiting or vomit, belts, brushes, pins,
a mortal sin committed, criticism, the dawn, daylight, teenagers.
Knowledge, horses, blushing, working or functioning, good news, sex,
sexuality, the female sexual organ, the color red, fever, cold
or cold objects, marrying, living together, laughing, chins, immigrants.
Knees, cross bridges, grow old, old people, good taste,
speak in public, robbers or robberies, enjoy,
sunlight, infections, blood, reptiles, maniacs, materialism.
Greek terms, complex scientific terminology, fog,
Germany, Germans, German culture, saints, holy things, theology,
religion, hell, the number 666, sermons, priests, horses, long words.
Wanderers, beggars, shock, fear, homosexuality, firearms,
water, mercury-containing medicines, liquids, moisture, epilepsy,
oven gloves, whirlworms or hurricanes, eternity.
Sleep, hypnosis, the doctor, go to the doctor, fish, ideas, poison,
termites, Japan, Japanese, Japanese culture, napkins,
Jews and the Jewish religion, recorders, the feminine in itself.
Being defeated, ridicule, emptiness or empty spaces, looking at people,
stealing, chambers, fatigue, vegetables, cosmic phenomena,
dogs, bending over or bending, wipers, death.
Leprosy, the color white, lakes, rope, prosecution,
analyzes, syphilis, otters, long waiting, cooking, punishment,
machines, losing an erection, the color black, bees, meningitis.
Menstruation, being tied up, metal, changes, meteorites,
alcohol, poetry, microbes, bacteria, dirt, sponges, wrinkles,
memories, moths or moths, mice, mushrooms.
Darkness, the night, ants, myths, stories, names, false statements,
glass, clouds, hospitals, coming home, nudity, numbers,
large groups, vehicles, the figure 8, jaw surgery, wines, rain.
The home environment, smells, terrorists, eyes, dreams, wet dreams,
snakes, being accosted, prescribed medicines, watching,
birds, property, crustaceans, heaven, everything, the pope, paper, perversion.
Failure of duty, responsibility, parasites, virgins,
young girls, Friday the thirteenth, urine, urinate in the (imagined)
presence of others, heredity or hereditary diseases, lice, dolls.
Imagined crimes or sinning in public, children, bald and balding
men, baldness, poverty, eating, swallowing, being eaten, a penis
(especially in erect condition), the word penis, taking medicine.
Daylight, sunshine, kissing or kissing, infatuation,
philosophy, phobias, the telephone, your own voice or voices in general,
light or sparkle, thinking, tuberculosis, tombstones, roller blinds.
Wealth, rain, choking, beards, polio, politicians, punishment,
the color purple, alcohol, rectal disorders, the rectum,
progress, stuttering, smallpox, China, Chinese, Chinese culture.
With feathers tickled, puppets, fire, X-rays,
beaten with a stick, wrinkles, Halloween, satan,
guitars, scabies, shadows, Russia, Russians, the Russian language.
Being accustomed, becoming blind, sharks, flashes of light, the moon,
disintegrating beings, escalators, sliding doors,
reading or pronouncing long words, left-handedness.
Trains, train tracks, train journeys, conductors, libraries, credit cards,
in-laws, being assessed, dependence, artists,
semen, wasps, rising, walking, symbolism, symmetry, tablecloths.
Predictability, another displeasure, irritation or embarrassment
due to its own appearance, facial expressions, living burial,
contagiousness, bulls, technology, giving birth to a (deformed) child.
Tetanus, Germans, Germany, German culture, sitting, sea, dying
and things that make people think of dying, theaters, heat or heat,
plastic surgery, permanent injury, shaking, aggression, the number 13.
Injections, tyrants, germs, clothing, rape,
goats, Walloons, witches, witchcraft, the color yellow, the word yellow,
drought, forests, razors, jealousy, God, gods, tapeworms.
- - -
Fear - Philip Hammial
No way to account for the erratic behaviour
of your erstwhile twin unless you accept that the voice
on the loudspeaker really does have a message
for you & you alone: Let
the glamour girl at the cosmetics counter
factor in your fear
& you’ll be free,
free to take
the department store escalator down to the sewer
where Angelo waits with a black-hulled gondola, a
skull, human, on its prow, a canopy of tattooed skin,
a rush of adrenalin as off you glide, city noise
gradually extinguished, nothing but the splash
of Angelo’s oar & the voice
at your ear: Let Angelo
factor in your fear
& you’ll be free,
free to take
the birdcage elevator up to the attic where mother’s
wedding dress waits in a trunk. Shake out the dust
& try it on. It fits perfectly as you knew it would
& of course you can wear it to the debutantes’ ball,
why not? Let mother
factor in your fear
& you’ll be free.
- - -
Fear of Happiness - A.E. Stallings
Looking back, it’s something I’ve always had:
As a kid, it was a glass-floored elevator
I crouched at the bottom of, my eyes squinched tight,
Or staircase whose gaps I was afraid I’d slip through,
Though someone always said I’d be all right—
Just don’t look down or See, it’s not so bad
(The nothing rising underfoot). Then later
The high-dive at the pool, the tree-house perch,
Ferris wheels, balconies, cliffs, a penthouse view,
The merest thought of airplanes. You can call
It a fear of heights, a horror of the deep;
But it isn’t the unfathomable fall
That makes me giddy, makes my stomach lurch,
It’s that the ledge itself invents the leap.
- - -
I have to sit still - Han Lynn Translation: ko ko thett
Or the roaches will climb up my legs
When I was young
I didn’t sit still
A roach crawled up my legs
Then it was gone
Before I could shake it off
They say it went inside me
Is it still inside me?
I must sit still
When you sit still, roaches sit still
If you don’t sit still
They will climb up your legs
I'm sitting in the dark,
Hoping they can't see me
I am quiet
I am alone
I can’t see them in the dark
But I can hear them
They want to climb up my legs
They are looking for the roach inside me
It is restless
- - -
Coming July 10th: Hot Shark Soufflé
IISZ Team:
rayheinrich: Head Chief Executive Head ( HCEH )
lizzie: Senior Executive Vice President for Creativity and Chaos ( VPCC )
quixilated: Executive Vice President for Narratives and Perplexity ( VPNP )
vagabond: Executive Vice President for Quonundra and Qwertyness ( VPQQ )
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions
thanks for telling me what i missed (and it even was part of the diabolic title, but i had to google what a sestina is)
