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Rules: Write a poem for national poetry month on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a separate reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month have written 30 poems for National Poetry Month.
Topic 06: Write a poem inspired by a ransom note.
Form : any
Line requirements: 8 lines or more
Questions?
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson
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Patty
The most well-known female bank robber
after Bonnie Parker
as long as the enemy exist
I can find no rest
after Bonnie Parker
the biggest action since Foster
I can find no rest
death to the fascist insect
the biggest action since Foster
Naga the seven-headed cobra
death to the fascist insect
that preys on the life of the people
Naga the seven-headed cobra
the interdependence of different species
that preys on the life of the people
there aren’t any shortcuts to
the interdependence of different species
General Field Marshall Cinque Mtume
there aren’t any shortcuts to
meaningful social change
General Field Marshall Cinque Mtume
America’s most wanted
meaningful social change
I’m changing my name to Tania
America’s most wanted
SLA feeds the poor
I’m changing my name to Tania
I have decided to stay and fight
SLA feeds the poor
People in Need
I have decided to stay and fight
a standard M1 carbine with a flashlight
People in Need
as long as the enemy exist
a standard M1 carbine with a flashlight
the most well-known female bank robber
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You think I must be evil,
demanding from my people
their virgin son most handsome
to pay a pointless ransom,
but they've the whole world to gain
for just one more month of rain,
for just one less mouth to feed.
You think this sacrifice is for me? Ha! Gods don't need!
Peanut butter honey banana sandwiches
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(04-06-2017, 01:55 PM)just mercedes Wrote: Patty
The most well-known female bank robber
after Bonnie Parker
as long as the enemy exist
I can find no rest
after Bonnie Parker
the biggest action since Foster
I can find no rest
death to the fascist insect
the biggest action since Foster
Naga the seven-headed cobra
death to the fascist insect
that preys on the life of the people
Naga the seven-headed cobra
the interdependence of different species
that preys on the life of the people
there aren’t any shortcuts to
the interdependence of different species
General Field Marshall Cinque Mtume
there aren’t any shortcuts to
meaningful social change
General Field Marshall Cinque Mtume
America’s most wanted
meaningful social change
I’m changing my name to Tania
America’s most wanted
SLA feeds the poor
I’m changing my name to Tania
I have decided to stay and fight
SLA feeds the poor
People in Need
I have decided to stay and fight
a standard M1 carbine with a flashlight
People in Need
as long as the enemy exist
a standard M1 carbine with a flashlight
the most well-known female bank robber
That fits well with the profiles you've been doing. I remember when this all blew up. I'd forgotten about People in Need--truly bizarre ransom request.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson
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Vial Ransom
haVE Ur ViAL
frM tH sPErM Bank
C poLAroID atChd
PAY $5,ooO tO
AntiQuan Bank aCct
# iN Pic EvRy moNth
Or Th lADy heRE
wIT ME gEts IT
wIr MONY by 15tH
cHEepr tHen
ChiLd sUpoRT
yeH?
 Non-practicing atheist
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Ha! Nice use of font
(04-07-2017, 01:59 AM)dukealien Wrote: Vial Ransom
haVE Ur ViAL
frM tH sPErM Bank
C poLAroID atChd
PAY $5,ooO tO
AntiQuan Bank aCct
# iN Pic EvRy moNth
Or Th lADy heRE
wIT ME gEts IT
wIr MONY by 15tH
cHEepr tHen
ChiLd sUpoRT
yeH?
Peanut butter honey banana sandwiches
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The Ransom Paid
Moses Law:
Payment instructions
proving sin stains of fallible man
bring death & eternal separation
from a just Holy God.
Out of love immeasurable,
God paid that ransom:
He sent His Son,
The Lamb of God,
Who PAID IN FULL
with His own precious Blood.
Victory soon followed,
the grave could not hold Him down.
Conquering death, He lives on
so that I can live, too.
there's always a better reason to love
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Holding
I have stolen your fruit
and I was ready to draft
the ransom note,
but then I discovered
that it was all fake.
Paper plums,
a rubber lemon,
a hard alloy mango,
and a satsuma that
was actually a bean bag.
Yes, I tasted your
plastic apricot,
then laid down my pen.
If there's anything I can do
to help,
(Your wax pineapple is melting
under my desk lamp)
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I regret to inform you
that the sword your son once wielded
is now the stick by which he stands.
For the clouds no longer dance
like pirate sloops
in the open sea of sky.
His blood has slowed to syrup.
So, as I have flown
through the windows of children,
I now bring him back to you—
by way unbarred,
and by room now nursery pink.
Each milk tooth is placed
in a bag around his neck.
The fairies will trade childhood
for coin, and I will take
this sleeping bundle in return—
and not return till crocodile ticks
and walls are painted blue.
The Pan
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson
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So You Got A Ransom Note!
We don't feel bad for you,
not for you or your checkbook.
Have your assistant
put a band-aid on it.
Poor kids get stolen, never returned.
If the pedos don't want them,
they become labor.
If the bosses can't work them,
they get unloaded
(as in, asset gone bad)
(as in, lead to the head).
We can't feel sad for you–
your kids got borrowed.
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Free at Last
When I got home from work,
under shards of glass and a broken screen door,
I found a ransom note on the floor.
Put $1000 in outside trashcan tonight,
or you'll never see your wife again.
I took the spare $1000 I had in savings
and bought a plane ticket to Puerto Rico.
Thanks to this Forum
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RANSOM:
WE HAVE YOUR LIFE
SAVING MEDICINE.
YOU HAVE THREE MONTHS TO LIVE
UNLESS YOU COME UP WITH 100,000
AMERICAN DOLLARS.
LARGE BILLS PLEASE.
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(04-07-2017, 12:27 PM)QDeathstar Wrote: RANSOM:
WE HAVE YOUR LIFE
SAVING MEDICINE.
YOU HAVE THREE MONTHS TO LIVE
UNLESS YOU COME UP WITH 100,000
AMERICAN DOLLARS.
LARGE BILLS PLEASE.
And that's 100,000 even after insurance pays out. Large bills indeed. 
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Hot
She will not come cheap;
she’s as beautiful as her mother
with the same coffee skin–
the same pop in her eyes.
Her lips swell the same
when she whispers
or cries.
The bidding is high,
but a pittance to them
who would buy her—
and a mortgage on you.
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To Cedar Acres
It was funny this evening
when home I came crawling;
I found on the doorstep
a letter.
It said you were gone.
Taken away, for money.
The jokers foretold that you'd die
for anything less than all that I had.
You were bad, they told,
and so they sent your toe in toilet paper
that I trembling took, unwrapped, and
-- laughed!
Long I laughed!
But once I finally calmed I turned again
to that dreaded letter, addressed --
I saw --
to a home in Cedar MEADOWS,
whose mistress painted polka dots across her nails,
while yours you painted bright yellow!
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< Dearest Extortionist >
I am beginning to consider your communiqués
to be some form of harassment.
Let me tell you for the third time:
I do not possess the funds required to honor your request.
And even if I did, you would receive none from me,
because I harbor no desire to have the thing back.
It has been nothing but a disaster.
And, unchristian though it may seem,
I'm hoping a similar set of miseries have befallen you.
As you may have noticed by now,
it exhibits no end of bad habits.
Surly a giraffe possesses the intelligence
to be housebroken.
I can only attribute its refusal
to be some form of ill-tempered disobedience.
No single piece of furniture in my apartment
has been left unsoiled.
The only item it has not ruined
(its perversity knows no bounds)
is the toilet.
So let me tell you for the last time:
You shall receive no monies from me;
I have no desire to have it returned.
The same goes for the zebra.
Most sincerely,
Your Victim
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions
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Revenge is a dish best served cold
Look, its no good talking like this
no one can hear us,
I'd like to help I really would.
But your nerves won't answer me,
they sent in the blood clot
with a sawn-off, the restaurant
was full, it was a real blood bath,
the whole right side of the room.
Now I'm not one to to tell tales
but I do hear whispers, apparently
you've been treating
our body like shit for years.
who can blame them really?
I mean, you come into their house,
everything in excess, throwing
your weight around.
Only because its you and your me,
I'll call a meeting, see what they want
but we have to be realistic,
the family ain't what it used to be.
If your undies fer you've been smoking through em, don't peg em out
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the witch lives
the mind is breaking and night eyes
are running and
water and sweat stinging and
always the screen, always another recipe from google, always
always the screen, always another sent to him, always
recipe
always follow the recipe, will, always
dinners alone at night with will and eve asleep, duck cooked chinese
running along the sticks, checking the old coat
and noodles and sauce and green shit, man i hate this green shit
whiff of cloud like smoke and long
running can drain the spirits out
the spirits that make me wild like
make me wake up in the middle of
before the night and autumn falls
running, wish i could smoke again
wish i were needed again
wish i were drunk again
and needed and he would answer back it's been so long
it's been so long since i was whole
i see the locks on the door i see the mold growing up the tower i see
and he doesn't, and vomit and
him the recipe for disaster and running again
to eve, who's grown worried explaining he wanted the suburbs
deleting contact in 3... 2...
the pulling of a sheet
blue shit
clearing the board
running again
running again
alone at night, alone at night, alone at night
until into the distance, locked in the tower, forever awaiting her
the witch lives
http://www.octopuspie.com/2015-01-07/742...tch-lives/
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[shit and shivers - ten days on a ransom note and this is the result? Yuck. but its NaPo and I am all caught up.  ]
A Higher Consciousness
We were stoned when we made the pledge
in Mike’s sixth-floor room, the four of us, a vow,
a resolution on New Years Eve to get stoned
every day of January. Most made it.
I took a break in mid-April.
One night’s novelty was a sweet potato pipe,
filled, passed, and refilled with first rate hash.
Music from the grooves of vinyl, compliments of
Quicksilver Messenger Service and Best of Cream.
Slumped on couches we’d found curbside, Pinto
sat in the corner, didn’t say much, but he’s the one who
taught us to hyperventilate on a Vicks Inhaler. I think
they are illegal now. Too bad, that’s where I learned
to hang onto the rope, no matter what. Kept me sane.
With no prelude or prompting, Paul launched
his exegesis with Lucifer, Beelzebub, Nixon,
and Mephistopheles. We burn in hell if he gets
our soul, and the other way around too - fungible,
transitive? -- some words just float away.
The point - if Yahweh doesn’t get it, then we burn too.
Book says we give it up for Yahweh or burn forever.
He made it sound like ransom, scripture being a pure
ransom note. But what do I know, I was stoned.
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You had me at Quicksilver Messenger Service.
(That and overshooting your pledge by two and a half months.)
...
And yes, religions come complete with a whole array of ransoms.
Congratulations on catching up... only 15 or 16 more to go unless you get stoned and do 89 more.
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