Question

Word Challenge Thread!

Post a word, any word. The poets shall sharpen their pens and compose immediately. Have fun!

Answer 1

Consideration.

Answer 2

can we do consider?

Answer 3

hey @Yinshy come join the game I tagged you in !

Answer 4

@Yinshy Consideration and any variation thereupon...

Answer 5

ephemeral

Answer 6

CONSIDERATION

We could call it
the primal compassion,
the definite sympathy

For those in need,
in need of minor dignity.

The thank you
and the opened door
Simply manners
though they mean much more.

Applause upon
with a clap on the back
Pause again
in a moment of what we lack

For what we are
is what we can teach ourselves to be
To lift one hand for another
is more in meaning considerably

In lastly but least
not giving to others
is like not giving to ourselves

In times of toil and trouble
bandage the frustration
And learn with a smile
to give everyone some consideration.

Answer 7

^Written exactly on the spot.

Answer 8

Amazing yet again, @Atsie!

Answer 9

Really? xD Haha, I actually didn't think it was to great, but I appreciate that! @SapphireMoon

Answer 10

how bout horizon

Answer 11

Just written by me right here:)


Down all directions, all waters are blue
These infinite oceans are counting on you!
To look through the waters and make them see-through
To realize your dream awake!

The sun is just waiting, waiting behind the wave
For you to jump, and go over the wave!
To throw all your doubts and inhibitions away
To see the horizen full and true!

Don't let them down, the waters and sun
Don't forget and leave their purpose undone!
Don't give up, go stand up and run
For the waters are your self, And the horizen, your goal!



@Atsie @SapphireMoon

Answer 12

That's beautiful, @quickstudent!

Answer 13

Thank you, @SapphireMoon :)

Answer 14

beautiful @quickstudent

Answer 15

What about empathy?

Answer 16

@quickstudent That is really really wonderfully written! I love that! :3

Answer 17

@Hope210 I'd take that one on, but I already wrote the one called Consideration. It's in a sense a meaning within a meaning and I don't to repeat it anymore than I should. :)

Answer 18

@Hope210 Here's your empathy poem, composed on the spot:

When I see you
Sitting there
Away from the rest of us
Just needing a break

A break from pretending you're okay

I sit down next to you
I don't say "I've been there"
Or "I know how you feel"
Cause that never helps

But I do know how you feel
Cause I've hurt before

I know what helps
Is a good friend who says nothing
And gives you chocolate
Because she knows it's your favorite

There was a bit of a tune playing in my head while I wrote this, but the beat isn't consistent at all and this is totally not my style, lol. Hmm.

Answer 19

And for @sakash1998, ephemeral.

She blinks, her sapphire, amethyst, emerald eyes hopeful.
Will I accept her? Do I still like her?

She's more beautiful than she looks in human form,
And now that she shows me herself, I see
See emerald and amber and scarlet and ruby

The multicolored tones of her skin:
The true form of the shapeshifter,
The tessellated scales? Cells? It doesn't matter.
They fit her perfectly.

Her golden blonde hair falls to the floor.
I look into those jewel-toned eyes again.
I ask her, "Become a fairy again so we can fly."

She shifts, her skin ripples,
Her wings open.
I tell her, "Thank you.
Thank you for showing me yourself."

She smiles and says, "You like it, then?"
I grin. "Of course I do."

Oh boy, my free verse is especially free tonight... A little thing based off of a scene that will eventually be in my novel, just lyricized a bit. Did anyone notice my poetry doesn't usually have punctuation?

Answer 20

honorific
go!

Answer 21

@SapphireMoon
That is really really amazing!!! You have a wonderful way of writing! I loved what you did with both poems but especially with the last! :))

Answer 22

Potato
*cough*

Answer 23

This poem contains 18 words that have been deemed the most
sensual in the English language, the most soothing on the tongue.

LOST FOR WORDS by D.L.McHale (www.dlmchale.com)

she was
seductive and transcendent
demure and evanescent
lost in the shifting shadows of sexual sensations
her chatoyant gaze, her dulcet smile
she was erstwhile my beloved fixation

her words kissed my ears
imbuing my imagination
with fugacious desire

her touch left vestigial sensations
demanding a desultory and deep dalliance
her lissome lips lilting softly
ineffable moments transcending opulence
something surreptitious and sumptuous
serene, slavish, and sexy

Answer 24

What about Caution

Answer 25

CAUTION

When we limit
the unlimited
We stain the glass
like a cathedral window
with only colors
that forget the
defining of beautiful

Shapes of colors
yet again
shape the fact
that we forget to look out

So shield my soul
so look at all these depths
And its the clouded window
inside of me that it protects.

Answer 26

^ We've all seen colored stained cathedral window's like these http://www.pxleyes.com/images/contests/gothic-architecture/fullsize/Gothic-cathedral-window.jpg
SO I was using that as a metaphor in the sense that the window inside of me (or you if you applied it to you) is all colored and clouded up and the caution in us doesn't allow us to look out of clear see through windows. We are our own stained selves and sometimes it takes a little caution before we become clearer and before we can easily open up to who and what we are.

Answer 27

How's about syncopation?

Answer 28

@Atsie @quickstudent @Hope210