Fauxku Choo Choo (the play's the thing)

[ChristopherSea]

the trident-wielder weeps--
the silver soup server
loses its shine

RN, You need to post the last faux-ku above yours and use a word or two from it to create a new one.

[ChristopherSea]

the trident-wielder weeps--
the silver soup server
loses its shine

RN, You need to post the last faux-ku above yours and use a word or two from it to create a new one.

e.g.

the trident-wielder weeps--
the silver soup server
loses its shine

Poseidon’s trident
is unwieldy-
tangled in kelp

[ChristopherSea]

Poseidon’s trident
is unwieldy-
tangled in kelp

the heart of the ocean
beats with a deep bass drum
symphony in blues

entwife, You need to use a word or two (the rules state two) from last post to create your new one.

e.g.

the heart of the ocean
beats with a deep bass drum
symphony in blues

bikini-awakened,
an ocean monster stirs
beneath deep blue trunks

[just mercedes]

bikini-awakened,
an ocean monster stirs
beneath deep blue trunks

trunks of fallen trees
dot the ocean beach -
shade for girls in bikinis

[bena]

trunks of fallen trees
dot the ocean beach -
shade for girls in bikinis

beach bums
pin the tail on the donkey
beached by the wails.

<<<@entwife, it's usually just me who breaks that rule, but I'm a rebel without a clause, yuk yuk>>>

[rayheinrich]

    beach bums
    pin the tail on the donkey
    beached by the wails.


    whale pins leg
    as Ahab wails

[ellajam]

whale pins leg
as Ahab wails


Baha memories
snip icicles

[Erthona]

Baha memories
snip icicles

Memories of  mammaries
are icicles in my beard:
dripping on my toes.
“Poo-tee-weet.”
So the saying goes!

[RiverNotch]

So it goes
that the mother
has nothing to give,
nothing to give

[ChristopherSea]

so it goes
that the child
has taken it all
taken it all

all in all
it’s not going so well-
the child is acting up again
in a Lorcan Tragedy

[ellajam]

all in all
it’s not going so well-
the child is acting up again
in a Lorcan Tragedy

In his father's pocket
a child's hand is clean
slow to grow up

[ChristopherSea]

In his father's pocket
a child's hand is clean
slow to grow up

The child could do no wrong
in his father’s eye-
even as a pickpocket  

[just mercedes]

The child could do no wrong
in his father’s eye-
even as a pickpocket

He'd eye the crowd,
pick his mark, sidle close and never
make the wrong move.

[Leah S.]

He'd eye the crowd,
pick his mark, sidle close and never
make the wrong move.

Eyeing the sidle;
the mark's worried now
the crowd is on the move.

[ChristopherSea]

Eyeing the sidle;
the mark's worried now
the crowd is on the move.

Worry marks
crowd her eyes-
time is on the move

[just mercedes]

Worry marks
crowd her eyes-
time is on the move

across the crowded room
our eyes met -
time stopped

[rayheinrich]

across the crowded room
our eyes met -
time stopped

across the crowded room
faces
blurred

[ChristopherSea]

across the crowded room
faces
blurred

when a cross was raised
in Golgatha, humanity blurred
on skulls with no faces

[ellajam]

when a cross was raised
in Golgatha, humanity blurred
on skulls with no faces

so long buried
the thaw will raise
winter's fallen skulls

[ChristopherSea]

so long buried
the thaw will raise
winter's fallen skulls

(yours describes the state
of my poor garden plantings
under 3 feet of winter)

So long to winter’s behemoths
that violated innocent flora
asleep in their beds