12 Feb 2010

Winter Games brings memories of getting into snowball fights and sledding around in the snow. Living in the Arizona desert for the past fifteen years I have not had a good snowball fight in so long I nearly forget what its like. Today’s poem was inspired by the 16 random words (in blue) provided by the following twitter players today.

@GeB0i (dandy), @Oneunder2001 (wrapping), @AttilaBS (humbleness), @Piratelover22 (collide), @Jaketha (snow), @stevejclark (happenstance), @Williamm49 (demographic), @Jan_Geronimo (betwixt), @ord2out (abligurition), @pauldsimpson (coherency), @filigreegirl (courage), @shonie1966 (lover), @PottyMouthCon (cudgel), @ptaylor98 (donkey), @wishinghearts (peanut), @HollyJahangiri (insouciant)

Winter Games

Typical winter demographic
storm of pure happenstance
wrapping children in layers
a lover of frolic and games
happy as a donkey in a hayfield
coherency lost in dandy laughter
mighty battles test tiny courage
weapons of snow collide with bodies
feeling like a soft cudgel strike
your position betwixt two teams
snowballs cast in prestigious abligurition
icy peanut sized shrapnel sprays outward
humbleness displayed at being defeated
the insouciant winter games continue

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

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Thaw Out – Random Twitter Poem for Feb 8th

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08 Feb 2010

Thaw Out is about a warm front moving in to clear away a massive ice storm and it was inspired by the 22 random words (in blue) played by the following twitter followers:
@poetisk (franchise), @Jan_Geronimo (splinter), @Williamm49 (sophisticated), @KristieGlascock (conspiracy), @Oneunder2001 (Overhead), @AttilaBS (scalable), @shonie1966 (flirt), @Piratelover22 (liquefied), @filigreegirl (tablature), @HarleyQuinnAA (egotistical), @KathrynVercillo (fluttering), @Kristen_Howe (frozen), @beamkiss (mumble), @israelimom (winter), @stevejclark (furor), @TrinaMb (quandary), @SurfCityJay (dive), @RyanHanzel (cream), @hammyhavoc (Nebular), @GarbageManBrian (coconut), @azredneck (racing), @KathySperlBell (abduction)

Thaw Out

An egotistical lingering ice storm overhead
a flirt with abnormally high temperatures
temporary abduction of winter’s bitter cold
fluttering of branches as leaves shed weight
discarded snowballs the size of a coconut
the frozen winter treat liquefied rapidly
icicles melt and splinter while falling
dripping nebular water like dirty cream
scalable runoff racing in conspiracy
the road transfigured into tablature
sophisticated furor over the timing
a quandary over the cleanup ensues
kids mumble over returning to school
a ski franchise braces for a dive
as everything starts to thaw out

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

What did you think, 22 words used? Did you enjoy the poem, I love to hear from my readers.

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Cold Shock – Random Twitter Poem for Jan 7th

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07 Jan 2010

Today’s poem was ginormous and took me almost 30 minutes to write, with me being so busy at work during the day, lately I haven’t had time to write twitter poems except after dinner. I may have to cap the number of submissions I can accept at some point, but for now I enjoy seeing just what I can do, and wonder how many words I can really use in a random word poem?

Cold Shock is about a bitter frigid cold front that overtakes a region, and is my largest twitter poem to date. It was inspired by 27 random words (in blue) provided by today’s twitter followers below:
@drdon911 (transliteration), @Sweetnote (symbiotic), @robertbravery (quivering), @omgzam (rebound), @filigreegirl (dependability), @cupcakes5 (whirligig), @SurfCityJay (sub-zero), @Kristen_Howe (shallow), @buddawiggi (whomever), @shemah (charismatic), @anefallarme (usher), @MaryBethJBellon (snow), @Oneunder2001 (cantaloupe), @DaveLair (Latissimus Dorsi), @Robbie42601 (Trinity), @santasdevil (rendezvous), @hammyhavoc (Gasconading), @IZEAinc (electrify), @JeffHicks (fruition), @BloggerTalk (tranquility), @chuck72061 (assassin), @RemBeatZ (flatulence), @HarleyQuinnAA (obstinate), @TrinaMb (design), @gypsiedream (Necromancy), @KathySperlBell (Savasana), @barbehr (devastation)

Cold Shock

Sub-zero temperatures like dark necromancy
electrify the skin as if by wicked design
whirligig of shallow frost an unwelcome rendezvous
bitter symbiotic trinity of wind, chill and ice
sting your eyes and nose like noxious icy flatulence
a sharp feeling like a quivering assassin blade
penetrating through leather to your Latissimus dorsi
cold snow squishing like rotten cantaloupe under boot
a frigid Savasana tranquility, nature’s frozen devastation
dependability of obstinate gasconading forecasters increased
as previous predictions finally come to true fruition
you pray to whomever has the mighty charismatic power
to perform some weather transliteration quickly
rebound to something more tolerable or usher in Spring
so that we may get relief from this cold shock

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

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