Group Poems
at the con last weekend, i ran a writing worshop. one of the things we did was do "blind poetry', where you can only see the line right above yours, and you have to write a line, then fold it over so the next person sees only yours. (thats why some of these are so random!) it was lots of fun. so i thought i'd put them up here. the first two were our favorites.
I can't stop can I can anyone
It's like trying to still the pulse in my throat
Like trying to stop the sands of timre
It's all a synchopated rhyme
Like Shakespeare with the hiccups
Or Mark Twain with the runs
Mark the spot with an X, and hide the map
Find the treasure, be the best, always be better than the rest
Like putting your answers to the test
Only to find that your efforts are in vain
And thus the scribbles end and thus ends our pain
-last line Emma Rosloff, first line Alfonso Gomez
If i could fly
I'd pick you up and take you into the night
Night is a time of mystery, or debauchery, or sleep
Or of grester things than mortals
-Of Icarus's fall or Osirus's breaking
Time is for the taking
Hourglasses, 3 for a dollar
Sands slipping slowly, silently away
Away it nears or is it drifting
Away my mind is gone, lifting
Lifting to a place I do not know
Sometimes I wonder where I am
So I look at a map
And plan my trip to oblivion
-last line Chris Brown, first line Erin Merrill
Walking through my foggy mind
You know about conceitedness
That overwhelming, it's-all-about-me feeling
The overwhealming power to fight or flee
A natural instinct, though it may be
To run with scisors, we just have to see
If those scissors will be a stabin' me
That sounds so emo
If it does, doesnt everything
Sometimes i like to play with shoestrings
No one thinks im verry smart i wonder why
Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Are you smelling what I'm smelling?
Smell the sweet scent of victory, the sour stench of fear
Or is it just my mind playing tricks
-last line, Alfonzo Gomez, first line Danielle Osborne
What would you do if you lost your shoe?
I'd find another, maybe two
And plant them to see if they grow
But a weed that grows without sunshine,
Grows stilted twisted and pale
A curse a blesing who knows who cares
Ascending the darkness like climing the stairs
The stairway to...maybe something a little more bleak
But we should accept the truth, however meek
The people seem
To lick the cream
Catlike and gracefull, autonomous
Can it be? No? Yes? why
Or is there a reason to being a fly?
But of course
I'm a horse
And I'm free to run
-last line Eric Merrill, first line Brendan Kallaus
Something stirs within us all why to we ignore it?
Maybe we are fools to do so
But love is a fool's game, for foolish lovers
Although foolishness is fun sometimes, with childlike joy
Fills my mind with stories of...
Children shivering in silent doorways
While the rumbling earth crashes around them
Let them eat cake!
Off with her head?!
Off this planet, our of this world, this state of thought
Who can who can't why not
I can! why can't you?
The demeaning qualities of your voice hold me down
I just wannaget out of this town.
It's too cramped and I can't breathe
Maybe I'll hold my nose until I die.
-last line, Erica, first line, Emma Rosloff
No, my son for it is this that I carried you.
I carry my life in my head like a book
The weight of society is heavy like school books
It presses its conformities on everyone's soul
And the pressure builds with with the indevidual essence squeezed out
Who knows what the future holds in store?
Only those who are already there
What is love? Baby don't hurt me.
Everyone gets hurt, but no one likes it
There are who do and its not wrong or is it
Sometimes you get crushed and sometimes you retreat
Sometimes inspiration lacking and your creativity is beat.
Then you start to look at things more deeply to find
A large yellow bicicle up your ass.
But in the long run, none of this matters
-last line Danielle Osborne, first line Chris Brown