DeShaz Registered User
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(2/7/03 6:08 pm) Reply
Poetry Challenge
I was challenged last night to write a poem with an odd collection of 5 words. Okay, I was doing someone else's homework...
I'd love to see what the poets around here could do with these: chameleon, grassland, longevity, mocking bird, remote It was supposed to be 10 lines...too bad.
My own offering:
remote call of the mocking bird
echos in the grassland
dawn's light and morning's breeze
dry the lingering dew
chameleon face of the prarie
reflects the longevity of nature
seasons, moments, always changing
breathing life anew.
Re: Poetry Challenge
Folks once flourished here
On dewy grasslands now remote
Where dust settled like desert sand
Dunes defying longevity of man
And etchings on cave walls drawn before
Sheer chameleons never-changing
And humming tunes of lively morns
Fell silent as mocking birds
Beak ajar, choked in mid-crow.
Challenge
Pray forgive, my rigid stucture exceeded the line limit
Consumed with thought (and by vintage port)
I drift off to worlds unacclaimed.
A chameleon blinks as it mixes it’s drinks
It’s vodka, it’s orange, it’s shame.
In the rumour mill I stand stock still
Listening for the grind of the boat
My ship’s come in now my blood is too thin
Yet I’m standing alone and remote.
By drinking the barm I take Mockingbird charm
Grasslands will sway but not I
Longevity beckons, the Chameleon reckons,
He swivels, it’s all in the eye.
Re: Poetry Challenge
In my grass-land I knew this chameleon,
Whose mood-hue-shifts gave me a steely-on.
Despite my longevity
The bird mocked my brevity.
Now I let some remote suitor feel he won.
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