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Old 07-16-2007, 02:34 AM   #1
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Post Write a Spontaneous Poem

Arbitrary

The humidifier runs constantly like a Kenyan in Boston. I scratch my bare stomache as I gaze blankly into my LCD screen, looking for it but I cannot find it. It is not on my screen but in my head; but I still search for it on the screen. How futile it is.

Times strolls by as if Jack the Ripper was casually strolling past Big Ben and I know I shouldn't be up this late. Just like last night, and the night before that, and the whole goddamn summer. I glance at the unmade bed and pause to ponder if I made it up for the whole two months I've been back living with my parents. I do not know.

Sometimes I wonder if I could have enjoyed grade school more than I did. Because college is the best thing that ever happened to me. I anxiously await the day that I move into my house with my other four friends in Urbana. That die sun will shine down upon the rooftops as I unload my life for nine months.

But, I wonder. Will I be doing the same thing that I am doing at home? Staying up late for no reason at all? That question makes me smile. Why would I ask myself something I already know.
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Old 07-16-2007, 04:04 AM   #2
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Still awake at this time
should be up at nine
What the fuck
at The Cellar I'm stuck
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Old 07-16-2007, 10:00 AM   #3
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The valley looks like a matted green carpet.
Rolling hills and gentle nubs.Inlets and black bear cubs.
I am looking down with a birds eye view. Nautres tapestry.
It's rivers running yon. I yawn. Up at the break of dawn.

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Old 07-16-2007, 10:20 AM   #4
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Spiders in the Cellar

A week ago
a spider bit me
right between the eyes.
My eyes swelled shut,
my head swelled up
to twice its normal size.

Two nights ago
a spider bit me
right between the thighs.
My butt swelled shut,
my c*ck swelled up
to twice its normal size.

Last night
I heard a voice
coming from the cellar.
It was my wife,
singing,
"Need more spiders."
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Old 07-16-2007, 10:37 AM   #5
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Bombs and lolcats poem

I are serious cat
I know where it's at
The troll I mean, I know he lurks
He sneaks, he spies, he eyes, he jerks.
He not cheezburger
So hold the workz.
He haz bucket
The bucket iz lost
I are serious cat
I know what it cost.
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Old 07-16-2007, 05:04 PM   #6
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each one is exponentially better than the next!
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Old 07-16-2007, 06:57 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by freshnesschronic
each one is exponentially better than the next!
Better than the next? Oh, so the first is by far the best, eh, fresh? :p Ah, just kiddin'.


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Old 07-16-2007, 07:03 PM   #8
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Okay, since its spontaneous, it doesn't have an ending, it's just two verses. Can't come up with the end without giving it more thought.

Tell me more, while I
memorise, your eyes,
Each
laughter line
and the way that
you smile,
for

I can see, that the night
is almost at an end,
The bar
is emptying
And the taxis are
Gathering
Force.
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Old 07-16-2007, 11:01 PM   #9
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Every time I feel enlightened
Or even slightly cool
I find myself being weird and frightened
And knowing I am a fool
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Old 07-16-2007, 11:46 PM   #10
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She sleeps by my side
still
after all these years I want her
still
more beautiful in my eyes today than yesterday
still
I can't wait for morning, breakfast brings new love
still
still she is the ache in my heart
I am in love
still
all that I need from her will never stay
still
new love every day blossoms out of old
old that lives
still
my love
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Old 07-16-2007, 11:50 PM   #11
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Just a couple of min and I only came back and added the last two lines.
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Old 07-17-2007, 08:11 AM   #12
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now this was spontaneous

What I give
You take
What I dream
You fake
When I cry
You breathe
When I need
You leave
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Old 07-17-2007, 09:00 AM   #13
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Life Lesson

A
Spontaneous
Poem
Should
Not
Be
Written
In
Haste
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Old 07-17-2007, 09:09 AM   #14
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Did you not like my poems?
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Old 07-17-2007, 09:16 AM   #15
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Did you not like my poems?
Shawnee -- I thought of that while riding my motorcycle in to work this morning. It was intended to be ironic, and zen-ish.

I like your poem, and DanaC's, but I was trying to avoid commentary.
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