Week 538 (October 16-31). Poems topic: Candlelight and Cobwebs.

[M]

Week 538 (October 16-31). Poems topic: Candlelight and Cobwebs.

You have until October 31 to post a poem, and from November 1-7 we’ll vote for which one we thought was best!

Please post directly into the topic and not a link. Please don’t use a poem previously used in this group. Only one submission per person is allowed.

Your poem can be any length.

This week’s topic is: Candlelight and Cobwebs.

The rules are pretty loose. You could write a poem about anything that has to do with the subject/photo but it must relate to the topic somehow.

Most of all have fun!

[Brett]

A Loss of Power
By Brett A. Starr on October 16, 2022

Tornado Warning!
Power outage. Candlelight.
Damp basement decor.

[M]

A scene set in only eight words! Very nice, Brett. I see the flickering light, smell the basement’s dampness, and hope the rest of the house will still be there when the danger is gone.

[Brett]

Thank you, M. All to familiar weather in the Midwest. Haiku are special art saying a lot with a little. They are addictive.

[Garrison]

POET: Garrison Kelly
TITLE: Carnival De Garrison
GENRE: Pop Song
RATING: PG-13 for language and sensitive themes



VERSE 1
Producers with some meat to beat
With an actress on the loveseat
Executives’ metal hips will rust
Antitrust ground into dust
Actors throwing uppercuts
Accuse their victims of being sluts
Hollywood embarrassment?
Carnival De Garrison

VERSE 2
Shamans with the letter Q
Angry jowls with red hues
Machineguns Hot n’ Ready now
Little Caesars clerks freaked out
Monster people in monster trucks
Family trees, no outer fucks
Cosplay as Leif Erickson?
Carnival De Garrison

VERSE 3
Cobwebs and candlelight?
Not without a sacrifice
Pastor pedos in speedos
Decide what’s good and what’s evil
Lay the virgin on the table
Read her rites from the fable
Deserving of their arrogance?
Carnival De Garrison

VERSE 4
Step right up, everybody
Bring a hubby, bring a buddy
Ten dollars a ticket, pay up, marks
Ten dollars more to park your car
Look at the freaks, a traveling zoo
Throw your sodas and hotdogs too
Treat them like they’re terrorists
It’s Carnival De Garrison
They do it to us every day
The difference is, they never pay
A ticket price, no comparison
Enjoy Carnival De Garrison

[Nicky]

Fab prompt guys, I'll have to try and find time to scratch something down! Loved that Brett, as M said, creates a whole story in those few words.

[M]

I just read “Carnival De Garrison.” My favorite lines in this are “Shamans with the letter Q” and “Pastor pedos in speedos.” I don’t what magic Garrison uses to come up with these verbal fireworks, but they never fail to delight and astonish.

[Garrison]

Thanks, M! Always appreciate your feedback! :)

[Brett]

Good one, Garrison. Very cleverly written. I liked "Look at the freaks, a traveling zoo, Throw your sodas and hotdogs too." Sounds like a carnival! I'm amazed how detailed you get in so little time.

[Garrison]

Thanks, Brett! Yours was a good one too! I can see why you find writing haikus to be so addictive. Tornado warnings are scary as hell and you captured that essence in only three lines. Great job!

[C. J., Cool yet firm like ice]

Title: To Shine

Sometimes the light gets buried
A candle under muck
It would not shine so easy
Because it is in rut
It's like a messy cobweb
Has widened out its haze
Yet potency in opaque
Is binded, there's no flame
It comes a time for ones now
To learn through life's tasks
In order to shine one must
clear the webs, like "masques"