My poetry blog has won Best Poetry Blog category and won Best Blog of December 2008 from BlogNetAwards.com.  I am so excited and happy, this is all due to my poetry fans and followers who have taken some time out of their schedule to vote for me.  My friends and fans, now that I have won the best blog of December 2008, I am hoping to really accomplish something great.  I want to try and see if my unique poetry blog can win Best Blog of 2008 that would be incredible and amazing.

I will continue to put out my random twitter poems and write poems as they come to me, in the meantime I would appreciate you taking the time to consider voting for Wanderer Thoughts as Best Poetry Blog of 2008 on BlogNetAwards.

-Dragon Blogger

With 10 random words provided today (highlighted in blue) a theme formed from the first several words, but then some curve balls were thrown in and I had to work at it to get them to fit.  Overall, I think the poem came out okay but it didn’t take the direction I originally was wanting.  What do you think?

Here are the 10 people and their words who contributed today from twitter:

@wizzardsblog (hectic), @summerbreeze80 (caress), @coreblox (somnambulant), @azredneck (pharmacy), @Miragi (loquacious), @lejonprime (predisposed), @brullig (smarmy), @izealove (parade), @jamiain (basketball), @_McLaughlin (Tuesday)

Sleep Walking

Having trouble sleeping for weeks
Life troubles are a stench that reeks

Hectic job causes too much stress
With no one at home to hold and caress

Having become a somnambulant sleeper
Losing track of time as I fall deeper

Living this way has been rough
This Tuesday I finally had enough

Smarmy doctor wrote me a scrip
To the store I then took a trip

Pharmacy has sold me this pill
To help me sleep and lie still

A loquacious person in my sleep
I reveal the secrets that I keep

Was I predisposed to this condition
Finding a cure is my new mission

I sat down much later that night
Watching basketball, my hopes were bright

If this pill works, I hoped and prayed
I would flaunt the cure in a parade

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

I deliberately left this poem open ended, leaving the reader to not know whether it works or doesn’t.

Today’s random twitter poem came together to a theme when I saw the words bone, astonishing and desperation.  For some reason I thought of Frankenstein and this poem is based on that type of scenario.    9 random words (highlighted in blue) were provided for today’s poem.  Thanks to the following twitter people and they words the contributed:

@reginasuniverse (astonishing), @reluctantaqua (bone), @StarMars (warden), @RichLovatt (obsequious), @izealove (paradigm), @summerbreeze80 (desperation), @lmantion (sun), @penmeapoem (partridge), @azredneck (whisper)

If you would like to play the daily random twitter poem game, just follow me on twitter @dragonblogger, and look for my call for random words (usually between 8am and 10am MST on Monday through Friday).

Creating Life

He is the warden of this tower
Creator of life who craves power
A master of art and science
Caring not for what it represents

What could be a scientific paradigm shift
He sets to create a most unholy gift
An obsequious servant carries out his orders
Blessed with a morality with no known borders

What turns out is an astonishing creation
That some would call an act of mutilation
Stitched together flesh and bone
Lying cold on a slab of stone

There would be no sun shining this day
For this creation, the doctor had found a way
A dark storm had clouded the sky
This storm had a purpose and he knew why

A patridge flutters through the tower window
A lighting bolt crashes down from limbo
Electricity funneled to the mangled corpse
Writhing from the shock, its body warps

Desperation sets in as the doctor opens his mouth
At first a whisper followed by shouts and screams
A failure this experiment it seems
Creating life is only in ones dreams

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

This lighthearted poem was crafted today from 10 random words (highlighted in blue) provided to me by the following twitter people:

@coyotesqrl (revolutionary), @Miragi (importune), @peteej (tintinnabulation), @lejonprime (prelude), @SurfCityJay (compensation), @jamiain (elephants), @tami_squeak (sublime), @SonoranDragon (schadenfreude), @blm03 (Christmas), @kcarruthers (obligatory)

The Holiday Circus

As the families arrive in eager anticipation
Pouring into the tents in clusters like bees
Clowns juggling in prelude to the show beginning
Parents laughing and children are grinning

More kids squealing in delight at the tintinnabulation
This all new revolutionary show is about to begin
Staff starting to importune the guests to take their seats
That they were about to witness some spectacular feats

Elephants amaze us all balancing on two legs
Trunks twirling acrobatists who land on their back
Their legs stomping the ground, you feel the vibration
Receiving peanuts and treats as their only compensation

A pie that was cast in an audience members face
Cause people to display schadenfreude, glad it wasn’t them
One final act with Santa to finish the show
Leaping off a highwire and landing in some snow

People lept to their feats in with glorious applause
Children screamed in excitement knowing no pause
This Christmas event all found sublime
Arriving before the holidays just in time

The staff converges with an obligatory bow
Clowns, Acrobats, Strong Men and Animals
All appreciate this amazingly great turn out
This was the best performance without a doubt

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

Today’s poem was kind of fun and more like telling a story through my poem.  I incorporated 12 random words today (highlighted in blue) provided by the following people on twitter:

@reginasuniverse (desperate)
@SurfCityJay (affirmation)
@azredneck (extinguisher)
@nipplelicious (eclairs)
@coyotesqrl (anxiety)
@izealove (development)
@EmmaBShireen (supercalifragilisticexpialidocious)
@WebBetty (reiterate)
@kcarruthers (serendipity)
@SonoranDragon (nocturne)
@wizard1974uk (unfathomable)
@coach_gold  (taste)

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Fire In The Bakery

Something went terribly wrong while baking eclairs
A gas leak followed by a flame and a spark
Broken glass flying and people screaming for help
Trapped in a kitchen clouded with smoke

A desperate situation was starting to unfold
Anxiety sets off like a trap just sprung
The fire extinguisher must be somewhere
Your mind declares this affirmation

Choking now with vision blinded by tears
Crawling toward a small red cylinder
Hands finding it, an act of serendipity
You could not reiterate enough the danger you were in

You spat thick spittle and taste the soot in your mouth
What you set out to do some would consider unfathomable
To flee a blazing fire before losing consciousness
The audible fire sounding nocturne to your ears

Spraying away fighting heat and flame
A path was cleared to the nearest room
You searched one by one to make sure all were safe
Finally at last you departed this sweet furnace

Only one word can describe how you feel
Surviving this terrible, terrifying development
You have proven yourself to be audacious
Now you feel supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

Today’s poem consisted of 8 random words highlighted in blue, words provided by the following people on twitter:  @wizard1974uk, @azredneck, @mebanded, @summerbreeze80, @durtbagz, @cre8nnov8, @SurfCityJay, @craftyGAgal

As always thank you to all people who participate, I really enjoy creating these poems based on your random words.  If you want to participate, just contact me @dragonblogger on twitter on weekdays between 9am and 11am.

The Creature

This beast covered in fur walks like a Sasquatch
It’s appearance brings forth jeers and derision
Farmers and villagers pitch tomatoes, potatoes and peppers
Pelting this beast whom they try to drive off

Some oil soaked torches a spark of flint and steel
combustion occurs, fire to burn the beast
A pitchfork is thrown with spot on accuracy
It pierces the monsters atrial septum

The creature is not harmed but smiling instead
Removing the weapon from its chest it cries out
The wound closes with supernatural regeneration
The monster stares at the crowd with unknown intent

The creature then draws a sudden intake of breath
Out is exhaled a putrid green noxious cloud
That rolls over the farmers like a great morning fog
They realize too late the cloud is an anesthetic

Falling to the ground unaware of their fate
Their limbs and consciousness melt like margarine
Some wonder if they will ever awake again
Then the last man falls and the story might end

Instead eyes open many hours later
People wake up groggy unsure of what happened
The creature harmed nobody it would seem
So maybe the monster was not a monster after all

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

Today I decided for an extra challenge to create 2 poems, one light and one dark based on the same set of provided words.  6 words were provided and are highlighted in blue.  These words provided by the following people on twitter:  @summerbreeze80, @wizard1974uk, @brullig, @WebBetty, @lejonprime

• Dark Poem

Giving In To The Succubi

Do not be fooled by this voluptuous succubi
Her heart as dark as an ebon star
Heretical prophecies have foretold this fate
of a man who will give in and succumb

At first the words of the seductress fall on deaf ears
Her words do not fit together like a palindrome
But the more you listen the clearer she becomes
Just maybe you can be the one who wins her affection

Temptation is weakening even the strongest resolve
You decide to take a chance her body too sweet
You indulge in her pleasure and rapture is met
Just when you are sure you chose true

Her smile reveals fangs meant for you
You try to escape but now pandemonium erupts
Was it worth giving in to this temptation
She shall smear your blood across her lips

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

• Light Poem

Chemical Reaction

You were told not to pursue this heretical pursuit
You had a hunch that this tree would bloom fruit
The project was greenlighted, you were given permission
Now to produce the components for fission

Smear some molecules on a frame
Induce a reaction with a flame
A chemical palindrome is one possible result
With a colleague you decide to consult

Pandemonium at a subatomic scale begins to occur
The reasons for this you begin to infer
A voluptuous sight to witness this display
colors explode in red, yellow, gold and grey

Ebon deeper than the color of black
Then something amazing happens with a sharp clack
The formula completes and the computers tests are true
A disease has been cured and it all began with you

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

Today’s twitter poem consisted of six words provided by my fellow twitter friends two of whom contributed for the first time.  All random words that were provided are highlighted in blue, thank you to the following people for contributing:  @lejonprime, @SurfCityJay, @coyotesqrl, @uzziemom, @wizard1974uk, @SJohnson85

This poem was very much inspired by the TV Show of the same name.

The Pretender

Who are you my friend and what do you do
Is what I ask to someone who has no name
Someone who has no role yet assumes so many
And lives a life between the shadows

With unpredictable gonzo tendencies
Your paths as multihued as the rainbow
One uniform you may wear today
Only to change into another tomorrow

One day you may work at a deli
packaging and selling salami
another in the hospital wing
assessing a patient for charity

Nobody would think you an impostor
You assume the roles so naturally
Everyone is drawn to your charisma
As the moths are drawn to the light

How can one live when they don’t know who they are
This is a testament to your fortitude
Slow down now and reveal your true self
Stop living the way of The Pretender

Poem by Dragon Blogger