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poetry_fictionJust a reminder before we begin:
Here's a link to the profile for a refresher on the rules.
If you have any questions, remember you can ask them in the questions post.
Sign ups will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. CST on December 31, 2017 (the time in your part of the world), and the prompts will be given on January 1, 2018.
We now have a tumblr for this challenge, so you can sign up there or here!
Sign ups are open. Please comment here with your name if you'd like to participate.
Here's a link to the profile for a refresher on the rules.
If you have any questions, remember you can ask them in the questions post.
Sign ups will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. CST on December 31, 2017 (the time in your part of the world), and the prompts will be given on January 1, 2018.
We now have a tumblr for this challenge, so you can sign up there or here!
Sign ups are open. Please comment here with your name if you'd like to participate.
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Date: 2017-10-01 06:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:02 am (UTC)Again I swam the luxury of your eyes--
My totemic soul, iron-wrought, at the gate
Of imperceptible relations, pulling the world.
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Date: 2017-10-01 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:07 am (UTC)I should have donned an oxygen mask;
Breathing here comes in fits and starts. Last
Night, reciting poems, between words, short intakes
Of breath which made their stress lusty
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Date: 2017-10-02 01:36 am (UTC)I'm in! :-D
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Date: 2018-01-01 06:08 am (UTC)My neck hurts. I've said a hundred hellos.
I've gone down elevators and faced
My ghoulish past. At times I wanted to know
& sought a name tag. My overnight case
Hasn't arrived.
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Date: 2017-10-02 12:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:09 am (UTC)Bless your hallowed hands, Sir, and their paternal blues.
Tonight Kala grazes a palm over a battered face,
Feeling his newborn features in a Correctional zoo.
The shock is permanent like the caged primate
Who suddenly detects he's human.
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Date: 2017-10-03 03:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:10 am (UTC)I'd come as a witness. The great Pacific rolled in
news from distant shores beyond a stretch of dune
Trails behind us. White-winged gulls shrieked
And flapped at our misery frothing in waves.
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Date: 2017-10-03 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:11 am (UTC)So I suffered the exile's self-afflicting, evil-eyed
Probe. I would have felt as alien in Sierra Leone.
What was I doing so far from home?
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Date: 2017-10-04 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:11 am (UTC)Such a gift he possessed of reading facial bones,
Even in the dark. Hearts placed in a dream
Over his city, each encounter an exercise in touch-ps.
In every house, portraits abound. Last night,
He fell asleep listening to sad people sing.
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Date: 2017-11-21 12:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:13 am (UTC)Seeking what I could not name, my vespertine
Spirit loitered evenings down leaf-lined
Streets. Stray dogs for company, curbs were empty.
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Date: 2017-12-21 02:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:14 am (UTC)What's the use of the phrase Tolle
et lege or the graffiti artist's
heroic tags? A sneaker's a cave.
The legions of lines my fist
Inscribes calls back your days.
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Date: 2017-12-21 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:15 am (UTC)I understand now why
Children and the dead are abandoned: heaven is a cult
Of the irrational. In my glazed-over eyes, your body
Found an ally
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Date: 2017-12-23 12:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:15 am (UTC)Even the birds, stilled to a silence
By the unannounced show, a man
Wearing the crown of the island
Until she lets him go.
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Date: 2017-12-23 12:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:17 am (UTC)Whose scythe-like coves left us speechless
and shockingly bold as we unpeeled our bathing suits
like human wrappers, letting pebbly sand stick
to our backs, while the sun conducted its trade routes.
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Date: 2017-12-24 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:17 am (UTC)I cross a footpath of a city block,
A short rut that snakes between
A lush epitaph of dandelions
& weed-brush behind Happy Hollow Courts;
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Date: 2017-12-24 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:18 am (UTC)Each day I forget something, yet happy
I never forget to wake
To the bright corollas of summer
mornings.
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Date: 2017-12-24 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:19 am (UTC)You might say my whole life led
To celebrating youth and how it snubs and rebuffs.
Back then I learned to avoid what I feared
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Date: 2017-12-24 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:19 am (UTC)My arms thrown back to lift my capelike towel,
Thinking what would it have been like
If there had been no footprints to study
The way back to my beloved grief
no subject
Date: 2017-12-25 01:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:20 am (UTC)Let me find
Beings like myself
Lurking in the
Between-ness
Of the Kingdom
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Date: 2017-12-26 06:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:21 am (UTC)A chorus of power lines
Hums a melancholic hymn, tenements' aching pyrrhics,
Doorways and row-homes crumbling to gutted relics:
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Date: 2017-12-31 01:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:22 am (UTC)The white marbled steps and boarded-up doorways
And basement windows spilling out debris and rusted springs,
Say Return to us. You've become all there is
To become.
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Date: 2017-12-31 02:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:23 am (UTC)Vibraphones, I dream
Of Saturn, my home
Moon, Phoebe, my last
Mission under
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Date: 2017-12-31 05:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:24 am (UTC)I believe in the dead who claim to believe in me--
Says, too, the missing and forgotten. Day darkens
On. I hear our prayers rising. I sing to you, now.
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Date: 2017-12-31 07:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:24 am (UTC)We did not know what lurked behind
The tight narrow darkness; demons
& spooks trailing our footsteps. Terror
& thrill circled us like satellites.
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Date: 2017-12-31 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:25 am (UTC)What privilege I flaunt discarding time
Like a swatch of faded, blue-jean sky
Addressing you as though the poem a clothesline
& we, two cups that connect, speaking high
Above the city
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Date: 2017-12-31 10:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:26 am (UTC)The steaming
Scent of wet sidewalks swells your insides
And somewhere not far from here a young girl grabs
The hand of a boy and runs over the rubble.
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Date: 2018-01-01 01:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-01 06:26 am (UTC)When I fade
Into the mountains on a forest trail,
I still have not disappeared, even though its green facade
Turns my arms and legs into branches of oak.