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majnu
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0 posted 2005-12-10 03:43 AM



so i went to a pinsky reading and one thing he talked about was writing a poem about the next thing you touch.
this led to things like pen, keyboard, other hand, etc.


The Proposed Challenge is to write a poem on something you previously thought pedantic, pedestrian, quotidienne, unpoetic, soulless (i think it is one l but two of them make it symetric which i like); you get the idea.

something like toilet bowl, or tube of toothache killer, or hairbrush.

below is one of mine as an example: some you you may have seen it before.

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her curves call to my loins and heart all at once
I drink her in as the light from her eyes illuminates the night,
she turns smoothly as we climb higher,
her skin has a soft sheen in the moonlight,
with a throaty roar I drive her harder,
faster, and she purrs under me;

my one,

my only,

my '69 stingray vette;
if she were a woman, I would marry her.

© Copyright 2005 Zaheer Abbas Ali - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2005-12-10 10:49 AM


I don't believe you want to read my 'Ode to a Zit'! Perhaps I can come up with something for this challenge.


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2 posted 2005-12-10 10:55 AM




With fingers on keys
I write this verse
I’ve done much better
And done much worse

Slightly curved
My keyboard sits
Waiting for my
few little hits

A couple of clicks
A space bar or two
And I may have
A poem for you

My muse is gone
Since I don’t know when
Too bad I can’t find it
By pressing ‘F ten’

It would be so simple
To write by stroke of key
But then my keyboard
Would be the author not me

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