Five Words Thread

[aims]

itch, scratch, slather, blather, acquire
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You are an itch
dead center on my back
I cannot reach you.
What knowing you exist does to me is maddening.
I may slather my poems with my feelings for you
but when I see you
I find it best I bite my tongue
lest I blather on nonsensical
painting myself in poor light
that comes from my absolute fright. . .
that I won't show myself to you right
and you might acquire an opinion regarding me
that would break my heart!
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signals, potential, solitude, credentials, cost

[aims]

signals, potential, solitude, credentials, cost
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The signals are red
but the heart says green.
No matter my credentials
solitude is my company.
If I proclaim my potential
what will be the cost??
Most likely the little I have of you lost!!
so no
onward biting my tongue
I will go!
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clatter, chatter, matter, shatter, platter

[phantasm]

clatter, chatter, matter, shatter, platter

Pass the platter of burgers and hot dogs, fire up the grill

The 4th of July is nigh

As the silverware clatters and someone accidentally drops a drinking glass that shatters

The chatter on the veranda sweeps up into the sky on the ever-so-slight wind at our backs.

We speak of matters great and small, all through the night, until the fireworks begin.

black mirror*white magic*tuning fork*remote control*laundry detergent

[anirbas]

black mirror*white magic*tuning fork*remote control*laundry detergent

~*~

Let me tell you this.
It isn't easy being a witch.
I mean, the struggle is real.
I still must buy laundry detergent
to wash my clothes, just like you.
Prepare my own meals. Dinner
doesn't cook itself, after all.

I must also use the remote control
in the same manner you do in order
to change the channels on my television.
Oh, the horror of this slave-ish existence!

But, when I take out my tuning fork
and uncover the black mirror
hanging on the wall, best
to get the hell out of the door

I'm not playing around. No siree bob.
I'm not practicing white magic, either.
I'm about to get my voo doo on, my friend.
Start sticking pins in pale wax dolls
that might look an awful lot like you.
Or someone you know. Could be your neighbor.
If you or yours have ever done me wrong
or brought harm to those I love...

I guarantee you there's a doll that looks
something like you around here. And I will find it.
But, first, I've got to find that god damned remote control!!!



~*~

aberration*feckless*benign*efficacious*normal

[aims]

aberration*feckless*benign*efficacious*normal
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Normal?
What's that?
Is there really such a thing?
It's not really an efficacious descriptor
because. . .
there is not a 100% consensus
on what that exactly looks like in this world,
it is subject to the myriad differing perspectives
that exist among the people of this world
in some instances
what is an abberation to one
is benign to another!
to deny the truth of my words here is reckless,
and yes,
feckless!!!!
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telltale, smoke, mirrors, complicated, riot

[anirbas]

telltale, smoke, mirrors, complicated, riot

~*~

smoke and mirrors
are a telltale sign
of a complicated riot
being right around the corner

~*~

viscosity*turgid*glitter/ing*hemorrhage/ing*avuncular

[aims]

viscosity*turgid*glitter/ing*hemorrhage/ing*avuncular
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While the turgid are dripping with diamonds and pearls
that glitter so bright you don't see the person
for the glare
their souls hemorrhage
for need of attention
but their lack of fluidity
keeps the bleed contained
the viscosity
of their ooze
is easy to hide,and though they spend their money to obtain their desire
it is never fully satified
the attention of the crowd must be constantly wooed.
When their money is all gone,
they find themselves not only still yearning for attention but also in pursuit of a
sugar mama or daddy
or turning to an avuncular character,
to keep the supply of shiny baubles from running dry!!
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calamity, cold, stellar, eyes, perfunctory

[aims]

calamity, cold, stellar, eyes, perfunctory
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November 2016, . . .
Calamity!
The Country's heart,
that had seemed warmer
more tolerant
more inclusive
more willing to
gather it's children
as diverse as east is from west,
has grown cold,
and shown all the ugliness
some of us had hoped was finally dying out,
as reanimated and bold,
shameless.
All of us who had high hopes that Love might finally be beginning to prevail,
now have tear-stained eyes.
and the rest of the government's attempts to reign in the tyrant,
are perfunctory at best, in other words they fail,
they are ineffectual.
I know our last bastion of hope,
the prayer that weeps from our lips,
is that some stellar hero,
yet to be seen,
will ride into the capital on a donkey
in 2020 and wielding the weapons of
truth, humility, love, tolerance, and equality,
disarm hatefulness, greed, and bigotry
and free the country held captive by them.
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sly, sexy, determined, walls, trip

[anirbas]

Amy, far be it from me to tell another what to do with their poetical babies,
but, I feel this piece has legs all its own and needs to be posted in the general thread.
If November 2016... isn't the title, title it and move a version of it there when next you land.
Pretty please and thank you in advance. The piece is evocative and beautifully written!!!

[anirbas]

*sly, sexy, determined, walls, trip*


~*~



I am determined to appear
nonchalant in your sexy presence

While on the sly I daydream of a trip
just the two of us can make and take

Which causes me to succeed at tripping
over my own big feet and falling

Into walls that won't stay
out of my way when you're about

Clumsy with unexpressed desire
speechless with longing and lust

I become a clown when you're around
I've got the hots for you there is no doubt


~*~

astral*irrevocable*purple*linen*debacle

[aims]

astral*irrevocable*purple*linen*debacle
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Purple ink penned on pure white linen paper
words irrevocable, but they can be discarded
or go up in smoke. . .
but that is the debacle of days long gone,
when things were done by tangible means,
now days things are not quite astral,
but cyber,
where deletion does not require a bin
nor a flame
for their demise.
Sometimes I think. . .
pity it's just our words
so easily dealt with.
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cause, triangle, void, austere, deplete

[anirbas]

*cause, triangle, void, austere, deplete*

[ warning: i may use the -ed version of some of the above words.
i believe i remember this being kosher. hehe. ]

~*~

~miss payne's music class

austere
in its simplicity-
unlike me I am one hot mess-
I ponder the triangle intensely
my fingers tightly gripping the wand

vexed I am a void of confusion
depleted of my confidence
waiting breathlessly
for that one note-mine
-I know it is coming

but, I can't even see
the music anymore-
my eyes are blurry
with stage fright-
much less remember the beat

why did I choose this instrument?
I should have chosen the cowbell!



~*~


atrophy*elixir*veil*sofa*triangulate

[aims]

atrophy*elixir*veil*sofa*triangulate
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Lie on the sofa
until you atrophy from head to toe!
In dreams you reach across the veil
to grasp some intangible elixir
that will make whole
once again, your soul.
Triangulate a pattern in the clouds in the sky,
seen through the window,
where you lie,
and lie. . .
to yourself about how it is a sign,
of good things to come!
because,
you lie
where you lie,
so long you may die!
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twaddle, complex, jive, crocodile, jeer

[aims]

twaddle, complex, jive, crocodile, jeer
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Spouting jive
talking twaddle,
it's not a complex matter,
don't be suprised when you hear. . .
me jeer,
and smile
like a crocodile.
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misappropriated, slap, groan, sly, cap

[Deleted]

Hmmmmm. There should be a "One word thread" for hard words like these. Misappropriated? I could write a poem off of this word alone, but add the four other words, and it's even harder! It could be seen as a good challenge, but for me it's mostly just reason to put it off and avoid it because of its difficulty.

Plus I just think that a "One word thread" where you only write one difficult word, as opposed to five easy or medium-difficulty words to build a poem off of, would be nice. It puts the focus onto the one theme, rather than complicating it with extra words that make it more difficult.

[aims]

misappropriated, slap, groan, sly, cap
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She pulled down her misappropriated cap
she had snagged
from the coat rack in the pub on the corner
and pulled up her collar
like a sly, stealthy
amateur dectective,
she slinked around a corner
into a dark alley
the origin of the repeated slap and groan
as her eyes adjusted to the inky darkness
she could just make out
a disgrutled and annoyed woman
slaping her plastered partner
butt planted in god knows what
slumped agaist a dirty brick wall
that had the permanent aroma of urine.
"Ah", she thought, "No mystery here!
just a couple of run of the mill alcoholics
at the end of a booze soaked night."
She did an about-face out of the alley
and went looking for her lift,
her sense of intrigue,
cut adrift.
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thread, conversation, blue, enthralled, bored

[aims]

thread, conversation, blue, enthralled, bored
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I wish I were bored
or enthralled
but instead I am blue
the bluest I have been in a very long time,
and there is no conversation to have about it,
no cure,
I am hanging by a thread
and only it's tensile strength saves
me from plunging to oblivion
because that thread is my daughter,
she needs me.
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clause, cold-hearted, try, slimey, truth

[phantasm]

clause, cold-hearted, try, slimey, truth

Truth is a beautiful, multi-faceted jewel, enthralling at first glance

There is a cold-hearted side to Truth:

It is not enough to "just try."

There is a point to accomplishment, we choose what that point is

Anything else is just a slimy ball of ectoplasm that we can't quite grasp

So says clause A173-93482 in the contract that runs the universe.

Possibulate*Daft*Immutable*Maniac*Temporary

(yes, word #1 is a real word, contrary to what spell check says, it means "to render possible.")

[aims]

Possibulate*Daft*Immutable*Maniac*Temporary
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Can you possibulate
the immutable,
or the maniac
yes it's a daft idea
but isn't everything temporary anyway?
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tame, mantle, source, clammy, force

[aims]

tame, mantle, source, clammy, force
÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷
Oh mantle of sorrow
conceal not my joy,
for it is the force
that propelled me from my source!
No clammy cold nor murky dark
shall stop the angel proclaiming: "hark"
who calls to remind who our parent is
who lays no blame,
the message is tame.
♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
Juxtapose, tyranny, solicit, pardon, soothe

[moseley]

Juxtapose, tyranny, solicit, pardon, soothe

grace is such a sweet thing, to soothe the ache
of the tyranny of my own thoughts
a pardon from a self imposed prison
as if I solicit to my own heart the notion of freedom
while my mind stays juxtaposed on the tranny
making a smooth slit,, just a pose
like a pretentious Dolly Partin, some solipsis afar
affront and effervescently knocked up in the self-cocked mind

bondservant--brevity--billet--brousse-banal

[anirbas]

bondservant--brevity--billet--brousse-banal

~*~

No matter
the brevity
I became a bondservant
to the banal
conversation surrounding
my three feet of space
my place in the world
impacting my hearing
with nonsensical noise

I would rather stuff
brousse in my ears
and billet with a mangy
dog than to hear
another single word

~*~

bologna*macaroni*rigatoni*mascarpone*vicious

[aims]

bologna*macaroni*rigatoni*mascarpone*vicious
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Mascarpone is delicious
. . . It certainly isn't vicious!
And. When bologna flies from my tongue,
It never does so,
In the company of
Macaroni
Nor
Rigatoni
Cause I ain't no lyin' phony!

Silver, slippery, calculate, soil, bark

[shore]

Calculating the bark of the slippery silver in soil.



The Foole neglected to pay attention to the meager minnows,
the bantam of cyprinid lying forsaken, dumped, eliminated - forgotten.
He could not mourn for the dirt, the sarcophagus of the multitude?
Even though it tore apart the quiddity of the human spirit.

Foole took not a shard of slightest pardon,
lost the right to stroll through the wondrous garden.
He heard the hounds who would bark in the night
as the slippery silver moon lit up the soil with her gibbous luminosity.

How could Foole calculate the nefariousness of the warning?
Could any of the plebeian understand the pearls of paganism
for they had forgotten to observe.
Lured only by the silver of the Shillin.

They could not help but stop, to admire the fascination of the sestertii
its image expanding ever larger in their piggy sight
A shillin is aspiration, a shillin is capacious,
Fool then realised that it was undersized, however.

Microbes, in their way, became the earthenware of precious metal.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the inflamation,
Foole can only warn, protest, address, he the greatest, the heroic.
Yet will we listen to him? Will we evermore!



corruption - dust - illumination - absolution - bliss

[anirbas]

(Shore. Clap! Clap! Clap!)

~*~

corruption - dust - illumination - absolution - bliss

bliss this absolution
this illumination
of the corruption
of dark dust that rest
in the wrinkles
of this shrouded soul

~*~


pomegranate*dank*eventide*conflagration*thistle

[aims]

pomegranate*dank*eventide*conflagration*thistle
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Dank eventide . . .
nevertheless a conflagration
reached the thistle
Sizzling the bristling bloom, meanwhile a camper soon to meet with the blaze
was too preoccupied picking apart a pomegranate
To escape his approaching demise,
He simply didn't realize!
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Collage, mischief, sallow, spoiled, conundrum

[anirbas]

Collage, mischief, sallow, spoiled, conundrum

~*~

a conundrum is Life
this collage of sallow
mischief Life is a shallow
spoiled child god merrily
throwing matches at the human
race when we're already drenched
in the gasoline of bad timing

~*~

gallows*fallows*shallows*bellows*fellows

[aims]

Jul 11, 2021 23:58:44 GMT -6 anirbas said:

Collage, mischief, sallow, spoiled, conundrum

~*~
Applause, Applause

a conundrum is Life
this collage of sallow
mischief Life is a shallow
spoiled child god merrily
throwing matches at the human
race when we're already drenched
in the gasoline of bad timing

~*~

gallows*fallows*shallows*bellows*fellows

[aims]

gallows*fallows*shallows*bellows*fellows
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Crank the bellows
Stoke the fire
Sending the fellows of shallows
(Karens)
You know those of
Emotional and intellectual fallows
Straight to the gallows!
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clobber, slobber, robber, sin, again

[aims]

clobber, slobber, robber, sin, again
**************************
Clobber the robber until he does slobber.
Then do it again
what he deserves for his sin!
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harrowing, charred, gutted, bleak, hope