let's keep playing...

So here is part two of the challenge (if you want to know which, go two posts back, part one here), these were a bit more difficult and challenging, but I did them all during one particular 'stormy' night... hence the dark mood probably...

Feel free to send me more challenges (either here or via email, I'll answer back I promise :) )

Challenge 4:

Numbers: 40,4,10

Words: Red, Skin, Run

Continuously running from my thoughts

Like a believer fleeing the devil

Yet my skepticism has voids to fill

‘You unappreciative selfish bastard!’

What a tremendously helpful insight,

My brain definitely needs a stoplight:

Red, alike my skin… I am exhausted…

Challenge 5:
Numbers: 62, 8, 12

Words: provoke, almond, sunshine 

I saw you smile, and a sweet textured sensation

Brushed tentatively against my bitter heart

I saw you smile, and your honeyed almond shaped eyes

Fashioned a line that cut right through my hardened heart

I saw you smile, and springtime came knocking gently

With sunshine peeking and warming my dormant heart

Your smile has provoked me… it is moving, my heart…

Challenge 6:  

Numbers: 99, 3, 9

Words: story, street, drum

All this cryptic drumming, I wonder

How many layers are covering

Its elusive origin, over

And over and over the banging…

Dreadful racket bouncing from the street

All these twists to two simple stories

In turns cautious, in turns amorphous

These words, these torrents of veiled worries

We should cultivate a swift release

Are these hesitant tears? I wonder…

What if we bang our drum together?

Make the frivolous sounds evident

A step here, and another step there,

Will our dance be any different?

Let’s make vague assumptions turn over

And over and away they’ll wither…

let's play again...

I admit I love challenges,

and a few people responded to my last post and challenged me via facebook, twitter, in the comments here and in private
six challenges in total that I will divide to two posts (second one coming in a few days)
they were not easy and I enjoyed them tremendously (there's even a small one in french); I was even surprised I was able to keep the correct word count (mostly)





N.B.: I know they should be edited and corrected properly, but I like them the way they are, so I'll leave them untouched for now, though one was edited later on and was used in the storytelling night we had a few days back, hence the pic I used here ;) )



Challenge 1:

Numbers: 60, 3, 5

Words: Couch, Parents, Away

I've made up my mind

I'm moving away

I'm too young to care

And too smart to stay

        This land's now barren

        A joyless debris

        I feel I'm battered

        My life quite dreary

I will certainly

Miss my parents, yet

I will not feel free

Until I have surfed

Some... many couches

In joyful cities...

Challenge 2:

Numbers: 60, 4, 12

words: reason - storm  - crime

Adonis

Dead crimson flowers on a bloody river bed

One crime of passion unfolding its mystery

As the storm scatters your reason, keep whispering

'It's only fitting, it is fated, i'm willing...'

And let the rain bathe your purpose once more, before

You turn to your divine shape, you murderous boar

Artemis is long gone, Adonis' name lives on...

Challenge 3:

numbers: 26, 1, 7

words: mouchoir, chauffage, escarpin

Tant de mouchoirs méprisés,
De désirs abandonnés,
Une image brutale:
Ton escarpin est au coin…
Sous ma couette j’enrage,
Mon souffle est mon seul chauffage…

Let's play...

Let’s play a game:

You give me 3 numbers (a, b and c) and 3 words.

I will put the 3 words in a poem that has 'a' (between 10 and 100, with up to a 5% margin) words, 'b' (between 1 and 10) paragraphs and 'c' (between 1 and 17) syllables per line.

Leave your choices in a comment below and let's see what I can come up with :)

Here’s what I have done with this game so far: 

(It’s far from being high art, but it's quite fun and gets my creative juices going)

1*

Words: Tea, Dry, See

Numbers: 42, 3, 9

My mouth is dry; let me drink your tea

Or better yet, you drink it and I,

I'll smooth mine on your sultry lips

Golden green, the reflection I see

In your eyes, I'm drowning regardless

Conscientiously... allowing me within...

2*

Words: Bed, Light, Car

Numbers: 53, 4, 8

I turn off the light and pretend

You're already lying in bed

My bed... your smell on my pillow...

Your breath on my face... it's missing

I close my eyes and I pretend

My hands are stroking your body...

Pointless unintelligent act

You're not far, I can take my car.

3* 

(And I can do it en français too :) )

Words: Jaune, Chaise, École

Numbers: 66, 4, 9

Nos autocars étaient grands et bleus

Ou colorés, mais jamais jaunes

Nous n'avions pas de chaises séparées,

Mais des bancs et des classes bondées

L'école commençait tôt et traînait

Toute la journée et puis au soir

C'était devant l'écran de télé

Ou dans mes livres que je jouais

À vouloir vivre dans d'autres lieux

D'autres couleurs et d'autres histoires

Yalla?