Every night at midnight (Mountain Standard Time), a new topic is posted. Your job is to write a poem that day that has to do with the topic. Post it as a comment under that day's blog post. Repeat the next day!
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Tristan: I faintly feel my spinning wheels come creaking to a stop. To keep them going, momentum slowing, takes much more than I’ve got. A push, a prod, a smile and nod, I’ll take what...
D. Edgar Lamp: FAILURE Fortune gathers those who know, All the seasons take their turn, Instant while the moments glow. Logic binds the rapturous burn, Urgent weather aches to go, Rising fractal...
Meryl: If F stands for FAIL, Why does BYU use E? Does E stand for EPIC FAIL? Could that possibly be?
Volkam: Traveling up a long winding stair I grow and learn the stairs never end but I don’t care I want to feel the struggle and the burn at times the stairs are smooth or rough my efforts...
Tristan: They say that it ends. They say that it gets better. I don’t believe them.
SBgiselle: High School Day by day, It is the longest thing invented. Year by year, It flies by like it never even happened.
Meryl: I struggle to research; I avoid writing. But soon my paper will be longer than this poem.
Russell: The other things that put themselves in between the things I actually want to do seem infinitely long
Volkam: I met him in a house macabre sitting under the dim luminescence of a dusty old candelabra I shuddered at his prescence “What kind of fuerte might you have young man? Enough to escape...
Volkam: along the grainy beach the ebb and flow of tide eased me to soft sleep in a nearby hotel room I lie I’ve run across the sand late late at night and from this strange land felt the...
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Finishing school in
t-minus two and a half
short, glorious months.
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+4
if i can
laugh at myself
and
you think I’m funny
hahaheeheehoohoo
i’m money money!
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+2
playing a matching card game
and the second card you flip
looks the same as the other
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I may not be perfect
But my dad sure thinks I am
I’m unfailingly flawed
Yet he thinks I’m a gem.
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