Thread: Chaining Poems

Hello all~

At my old writing forum, we had a poetry game/prompt similar to the "use this line in a poem" thread, but with a bit more flexibility, IMO. The first user posts five words, and the next user posts a poem of any kind that contains ALL FIVE of those words. Then that person posts five more words, and the next one writes a poem using those five words, and so on. The words can be personal names too, as long as it's just a one-word name (i.e., Juliet is okay; Juliet Capulet would not be).

Here's an example of one I wrote for this challenge:

The five words were theology, incandescence, liberated, soldier, black. So I wrote:

liberated from a poisoned theology
i soldier forth into the bright void
where the illimitable incandescence
of new and beautiful truth illuminates
the black, bleak forests in the night

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Now it's your turn!

Five words:

fire
cloud
abandon
literature
ocean

The literature,
bound in fire,
words caught and sent to the sky,
edification precipitation,
clouds heavy with the heavy notions,
unable to hold themselves aloft.

Five words:
Defenestration
words
earth
impact
zealous

The Presidents life ended in defenestration.
On reflection, it is entirely possible that careless words
resulted in premature contact with solid earth,
and that that outcome, and resultant impact,
were a consequence of precipitous action by underlings who were a touch overzealous.


Tramlines
Cobbles
umberellas
Fog
Lamplighter


That should generate some Dickensian & Christmassy thoughts...

Tramlines,
violently ripped from the cobbles,
lamplighters stare in awe,
they wish they would have thought to bring umbrellas,
as the bricks begin to fall.
the Zeppelin trails its streamers of metal into the fog.

Eldritch
Apple
Table
Avian
Sky

She was the shining apple
at evening's eldritch table
a soaring sense of unlit sky
perfectly poised avian eyes

gremlin
mechanism
melancholy
protest
protean

the ghost in the machine
the gremlin in the mechanism
screetch out their laments
both melancholy and raging
in protean disorder.


cringe
new
investigation
insult
once

the killer who spread the cringe
forced a new investigation to began
he who insulted the police
will be punished once he has caught

we
plead
fail
victor
friend