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…