Tag: prompt
member name: Corinna Parr
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October 07, 2007 11:30 PM EDT --
Wind-swept,
My life has been
Stormy seas and leaf-dance,
Cast adrift on careless currents,
Random.
Two steps
Forward or back,
And sometimes side to side,
No path ahead, no safe harbor,
Life's wile. . . .
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October 17, 2007 10:36 PM EDT --
I danced for him and won his heart;
He said it was the fire in my eyes, the wit in my laugh,
But when he held me against him, I knew he loved my beauty most.
It is a small thing, a sad thing, to be loved . . .
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November 16, 2007 11:05 PM EST --
Slowly, sweetheart, slowly.
It took years to wrap this gift.
Each separate layer, each application of tape
Considered for its color, its placement;
I didn't want the paper to pucker,
Or the pattern . . .
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December 15, 2007 11:01 AM EST --
It is cold, so cold,
White-wreathed trees bridge ground and sky,
All diamond and pearl.
Beneath my feet, frothing slush.
Catch red brick to hold the fall.
"Tanrenga looks like a tanka . . .
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May 19, 2009 01:07 PM EDT --
I walked that desert road,
The one that leads inside,
Holding mirrors out before me,
A hundred shadows by my side.
When the sun rose, I ran before it,
When the moon fell, I circled 'round. . . .
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November 20, 2007 08:08 PM EST --
The textbook tells me that entropy is
Energy broken down in irretrievable heat.
Irretrievable seems a word ripe with regret.
Surely, for us, it's more complicated. And
Is it better to fight or . . .
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January 01, 2008 01:48 PM EST --
The perfumed pools and sun-warmed tiles, they cradle us.
We sip the smoke of dreams from ivory tubes, and laze
Under the supple hands of those that never speak a word,
So as not to profane our ears. . . .
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November 11, 2007 02:09 PM EST --
Indecent Proposal is a weekly prompt and challenge for writers of erotic poetry or short fiction. Every week, writers who pride themselves on their sensuality will be given a challenge in the form of . . .
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July 14, 2009 01:46 PM EDT --
All the girls want to be sweet like honey worth the bee-dance of harvest-- they taste of clover, apple-blossom, lilac; their lips pursed in tartness bodies ripe to overflowing, ready for the feast. . . .
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June 03, 2009 03:54 PM EDT --
I have had a lifetime to count these bars. There are thirty-two; shining like my song, divided by the sun's hungry kiss. It limns me too; I shine like silver, happy canary in her open cage.
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October 29, 2007 10:59 PM EDT --
Our name is justice
We are the kindly ones
. . .
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November 25, 2007 02:08 PM EST --
Given the specialized nature of the group, being a genre prompt, which risks limiting people more than other prompts do, James and I have decided to switch to a bi-weekly format for our challenge. Everyone . . .
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January 13, 2008 11:01 AM EST --
This is a repost of a collaboration between myself and the oh so talented James Ciriaco, done for the Poetry Please challenge. He has already published it to his namespace, and now I'm publishing . . .
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October 21, 2007 04:29 PM EDT --
Our inaugural prompt is "By Candlelight"!
All erotic poetry and short fiction is welcome (remember to keep your fiction under 5,000 words), and entries will be due by Saturday, October 27, . . .
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November 04, 2007 12:44 PM EST --
The third prompt for Indecent Proposal is a phrase: "forces of nature". You needn't include the exact phrase in your submission, so long as the piece is inspired by the same.
All erotic . . .
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