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Let's Pretend it's April - Nov. 10
Rules: Write a poem for
LPiA on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a
New Reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month, have written 30 poems for the month of November. (or one, or six, or fifteen) Prompts may be revisited at any time. All members are welcome.
Topic : Write a poem inspired by
the number 10. (or, as TB has reminded us, just write about weed.) 
Form : Any
Line requirements:
TEN
Feel free to reply with comments or kudos as you wish.
Questions?
***Bonus points for poems showing a relationship between weed and the number 10.
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11-11-2023, 03:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-11-2023, 06:51 AM by CRNDLSM.)
10 focus only on the sound of my voice
9 your legs are getting heavy, your eyelids heavy
8 the sound of my voice takes you deeper
7 deeper and deeper, background noise disappears
6 your hands relax at your side. Deeper and deeper
5 at the very bottom, there's an unwrapped box
4 you're going to put everything in this box
3 all your thoughts, all your worries, your childhood
2 everything to ever exist before this moment
1 when I get to 0 you will wake up, a new person
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(11-11-2023, 03:47 AM)CRNDLSM Wrote: 10 focus only on the sound of my house
9 your legs are getting heavy, your eyelids heavy
8 the sound of my voice takes you deeper
7 deeper and deeper, background noise disappears
6 your hands relax at your side. Deeper and deeper
5 at the very bottom, there's an unwrapped box
4 you're going to put everything in this box
3 all your thoughts, all your worries, your childhood
2 everything to ever exist before this moment
1 when I get to 0 you will wake up, a new person
Love it ! Your originality always astounds me. Even when you write a poem or song I don't relate to, I would be hard pressed to call any of it's construction unoriginal.
But was "house" supposed to be "voice?" I tried to let it hypnotize me but I kept thinking house was some kind of autofill typo and couldn't focus.
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Ten Minute Fibs
1.
Mirrors mock the dead
Che Guevara balances
on the head of Quixote
it’s all a frantic exchange
an instamatic erection.
2.
Famous monsters till the fields
patting the furrows into place
sow the seeds of fable
with the thigh bone of an ass
and so the Bible came to pass.
3.
DeSade came dancing by
chased by Planet X
Oswald fired his fatal shot
missed DeSade but hit Camelot
a sad day for all our sex.
4.
It’s not morning until the crack
inside the rain, beside the pain
the aching revolution’s gain.
Mighty Mouse inflates his chest
and bullets bounce back.
5.
Joker’s coming back again
no one’s laughing now
scraping and bowing and insane
we count our blessings
on his naked ribs of shame.
6.
It’s not the same to be to blame
It’s not insane to weep for Poe
wandering lost and poisoned
through an October prison
where cocks crow in derision.
7.
These lies are not the product
of cannabis or any other drug.
This is how I expel the lies
hiding behind the explicit truth
that words can never explain.
8.
Thunder speaks, we don’t listen
Doors open in the sky
we dare not perceive
because that would mean our exit.
The burning theatre is part of the show.
9.
Gladiators slice and dice
to the applause of anxious baboons
combing themselves for lice
sipping wine and relishing tongues
from slaughtered hummingbirds.
10.
The end of magic spells our doom
but there’s always room
for more spasms of reconstruction
syllables of light and dark
should be our oligarchs.
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X-tra Special
1.
Ten achieved its pivotal position at
the head of common number systems by
being a tallest midget: when the big
guy demands ten percent, it's bearable–
eleven would too much, nine an insult.
2.
That’s what aborted Planet Five:
too heavy for a stable rocky orb,
too light to coalesce Saturnian
so it became, invisible but grand,
a ring around the Sun, not world with one.
Non-practicing atheist
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Love it ! Your originality always astounds me. Even when you write a poem or song I don't relate to, I would be hard pressed to call any of it's construction unoriginal.
But was "house" supposed to be "voice?" I tried to let it hypnotize me but I kept thinking house was some kind of autofill typo and couldn't focus. Thanks! Sound of my house could make interesting content, I don't always relate to what I write either, especially napm/lpia
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11-11-2023, 11:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-11-2023, 11:20 PM by RiverNotch.)
rota
her strings once gave me life,
now they sustain it -- vital still
but easy to ignore -- and someone else
someday will press
their ear against my chest
for the same sound.
will they only be a nurse, ready to discard
the spool of tape they so receive
for saneness' sake, or will they be another artist
seeking second birth?
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Cupid's Calculus
An undisputed ten
walks into a bar full of men
none of which smell more than a seven
even on days they are sober.
She steals away with a five
who indeed is the last one alive
once the three of a sheriff arrived
to smooth the whole thing over.
