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30 Days of Text. Day 21

Nike | 30 Days Of Text,Art,prose and poetry | Friday, August 22nd, 2008
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Word: section
Form: Well, I guess it’s some sort of Shape Poetry

sec        tion
reflec        tion
detec        tion
selec        tion
connect        tion
affect        tion
erec        tion

tomorrow’s word: vacuity

30 Days of Text. Day 20

Nike | 30 Days Of Text,Art,prose and poetry | Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
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Word: debuted
Form: Villanelle

Debuted

They said it would not hurt, but they were lying.
I wonder if they thought it to be true.
But what I had of trust in me is dying.

I wonder if they heard my silent crying.
I wonder if they ever had a clue
They said it would not hurt, but they were lying.

To all my questions they just kept replying:
You know, my dear, the problem is just you.
And what I had of love in me is dying.

My eyes don’t cry no more, forever drying,
I wish my heart to follow, it is overdue.
They said it would not hurt, but they were lying.

I wish I could just stop to breathe, I’m sighing.
It seems my world and theirs are all askew.
And what I had of hope in me is dying.

Oh, if I had the strength to be defying!
Oh, if I just could say “You were not true!”
They said it would not hurt, but they were lying.
And what I had of ME in me is dying.

Thanks nikneven for suggesting the Villanelle. This one’s for you.

Tomorrow’s word: section

30 Days of Text. Day 19

Nike | 30 Days Of Text,Art,prose and poetry | Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
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Word: Flasks
Form: wordwrap poem

So inconspicuous a thing,
so small and nondescript.
You slowly pick it up and bring
it home. A flask. Its neck is chipped,
made from clear glass, and also clear
the liquid that you see within.
You smile. You do not fear
the unknown. Face it with a grin.
You drain the liquor, take a breath
and know what it is that you face.
You smile once more. You smile at Death.
For him it is that you embrace.

Tomorrow’s word: debuted

30 Days of text. Day 18

Nike | 30 Days Of Text,Art,prose and poetry | Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
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Word: metropolitan
Form: Haiku

metropolitan
heat hammers on empty minds
people are lonely

OK, I pulled the haiku joker on you. Suffering a bit of a writer’s block, or rather some hectic days and no time to properly think, so this will have to do. :)

Tomorrow’s word: flasks

13 Days of Text. Day 17

Nike | 30 Days Of Text,Art,prose and poetry | Sunday, August 17th, 2008
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Word: sparking
Form: double acrostic

Kiew Dusk

subconscious fears
passing beyond grasp
another vodka
restless flutter
kalashnikov bark
ignites Bar Berzelii
nowhere to run
glass shattering

That was harder than I thought.
Thanks to nikneven for the idea, and to my fabulous jeenias little meerkitten brother for helping with the letters. I owe you a drink in Bar Berzelii for this.

Tomorrow’s word: metropolitan

13 Days of Text. Day 16

Nike | 30 Days Of Text,Art,prose and poetry | Saturday, August 16th, 2008
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Word: retire
Form: Jueju

the sun retires
to the lands beyond
to the vast darkness
will it extinguish?

Thanks to MZPresto for the inspiration and choosing of the form.

Tomorrow’s word: sparking

30 Days of Text. Day 15

Nike | 30 Days Of Text,Art,prose and poetry | Saturday, August 16th, 2008
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Word: economists
Form: Musette

economist
dispensable
society’s cyst

data leech
feeding on money
who will impeach

you, cheapskate
spare us!
use another bait

Tomorrow’s word: retire
Btw: We’re over the hump! :)

30 Days of Text. Day 14

Nike | 30 Days Of Text,Art,prose and poetry | Saturday, August 16th, 2008
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Word: Giveaway
Form: Cinquain

candies
gay giveaways
munching noshing nibbling
oh melting sweetness of heaven!
goodies

Tomorrow’s word: Economists

30 Days of Text. Day 13

Nike | 30 Days Of Text,Art,prose and poetry | Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
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Word: Civilize
Form: Tanka

offering riches
they took away your old gods
their gifts abundant

but under the surface: void.
what riches did they offer?

Tomorrow’s word: giveaway

30 Days of Text. Day 12

Nike | 30 Days Of Text,Art,prose and poetry | Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
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Word: Asteroids
Form: Terza Rima

Asteroid Wallowing In Self-Pity – a Terza Rima Sonnet Elegy

I am circling, careening through space
Ever wandering, ever alone.
And I know that I am a disgrace!

Don’t you know that I really bemoan
My flintiness so cold, so gruff?
I am but a splinter of stone.

I get nothing but hate and rebuff.
I’m no planet, so sun and no star,
Just an asteroid – never enough.

And I’m longing to be what they are!
Indwelt or just shining with grace!
I pine over them just from afar.

I’m a frigid and dead-hearted block
Just an asteroid. Just a rock.

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s word: Civilize

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