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Friday, May 05, 2006 May Challenge 2006 - Diamonte
With 7 lines and 16 words, your Diamonte will be shaped like a diamond when finished.
You begin with a topic, one word and the opposite of that will be one word for your last line. A formula is below.
Line 1 - Your topic, one word.
Line 2 - 2 words describing your topic.
Line 3 - 3 action words describing your topic, end them with ing.
Line 4 - Here is where the poem changes, bringing your topic and opposite together. You will have 4 words on line 4. Add 2 words that describe your topic, and a dash, add 2 more words that will describe the oppposite of your topic.
Line 5 - 3 action words describing the opposite of your topic, end them with ing.
Line 6 - 2 final words describing the opposite of your topic.
Line 7 - The opposite of your topic, one word.
Rich
Wealthy Affluent
Spoiling Believing Fearing
Broker Chairman - Preacher Beggar
Starving Believing Frightening
Labored Homeless
Poor
Copyright 2006 Cynthia Jones
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006 April 2006 Submission 1Challenge - Write a poem - 12 lines or less, or short paragraph 200 words or less, evoked from this picture: (photo of a woman driving a car on the wrong side of the road facing a semi truck. All the photo shows is the back of her head and the scene from her view in the windshield.)
Always With You
Copyright 2006 Cynthia Jones
It is not new that I am behind you, where you sometimes forget me. Even so, I will watch for you as you drive forward, as you drive your road of -LIFE- with distress and misery, faceless and coward, unable to turn your wheel of direction that may lead elsewhere to safety, less worry, less shame... I will always be here with you waiting for you to acknowledge me and even if you -WILL NOT- my will wins over. You live. A whisper of breath across your ear, and a sigh saying- 'your guardian is here'.
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Sunday, March 05, 2006March 2006 Submission 2 - Challenge
12 lines or less using all of the following words:
kite, wind, rain, coffeepot, purple, mellow,
dance, cookie,
First Kiss
Copyright 2006 Cynthia Jones
The rain falls in the wind
Friday night promise to show
Hair-do or not, to the dance I go
Cookie crumbs on my purple dress
Hearts are light as a kite
Chaperones stand by the coffeepot
...two mellow kids getting caught
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March 2006 Submission 1 - Poetry
24 lines or less starting line
'bring me the sunset in a cup'
Numb Love
Copyright 2006 Cynthia Jones
bring me the sunset in a cup
don't be selfish, fill it up
that sunset will have to do
and get me on and over you
you say you must leave and I know
but do me this one before you go
bring me the sunset in a cup
and let me drink it deep...
may it make me full drunk
so I don't feel you leave
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Sunday, February 05, 2006Febuary 2006 Poetry Challenge
To write a poem 24 lines or less using the line
"where we still laugh and wish".
Untitled
Copyright 2006 Cynthia Jones
Can I have just one more life?
One more chance to get it right
And please make mine a place
Where I can laugh and I can wish
for my soul has become weary
and tired of days of pain and
longing for a speck of truth
a rae of light or shining beam.
My heart like yours, beats in time
as our souls dance with release.
Our melody, this place of mine
Where we still laugh and wish.
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