Dear Readers,
It looks like we’re pretty desperate. For the sake of poetry, we’ll readily bear anything. The last round brought us an invasion of cockroaches. We wonder what will happen this time…
A bout of saporous lolly acne? A rain of worthless bitcoin that darkens the skies for months? Our legs dancing an endless Eskimo jig? It’ll be worse than the ten plagues of Egypt from the Old Testament!
Still, this won’t stop us from providing you, our Dear Readers, with a safe haven for your collaborative efforts. “Collaborative efforts?” we hear you say. “What collaborative efforts? And to what purpose?” Well, let us fill you in…
1) We provide the first line of a poem.
2) You write the next line.
3) You submit your line via the comments section of this very post.
4) We pick the line we like most and add it to the poem.
5) We publish the first and second lines in a follow-up post.
6) Steps 2-5 are repeated until we have a masterpiece!
See? It’s the very definition of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! So, have fun! But, please, whatever you do, don’t fling us in dat dere briar patch! We can handle pretty much anything but not rejection!
She looks in the book like into a mirror
by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2018
unbolt me 
and sees herself reflected perfectly back
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Ah, of course! It’s a MIRROR after all! Thank you for playing, Sarada. 😀
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and falls into the final page
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Nice one! 😀
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scratching her head as she reads in disbelief
Was this what she had been living these passed months these words…..
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Nice one, Sheldon. Thank you!
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Your words often perplex me. By cockroaches do you mean one reason I’m happy I live in an apartment building? No God-Botherers? Cheers,H
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Hee hee hee. You crack me up, Helen! 😛
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Or: pears on the leaflets through her undaunted leers
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Nicely abstract there. I like it!
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Peers* 😛
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Hears a frantic leprechaun get nearer
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Or:
Sees the panoramic tidings get clearer
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Holy crap! Leprechauns now? Cool! 😀
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I have no idea how they popped up, though. XD
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Falling headfirst into her fantasies
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Sounds like a great line to me! Thank you for playing, Audrey! 😀
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Can’t wait to see what will happen with this poem! What’s next? i love writing games!
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Me too, Audrey! It’s so much fun! 😛
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Wandering through its pages searching for a soul.
Yeah I don’t know what I’m doing, I just liked the first line.
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Pssst! Amandia, we’ll let you in on a little secret… We don’t know what we’re doing either. It’s all just improvisation from here on in. 😉
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does see not her silhouette, but the hands of a lover
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Saucy! Nice contribution there. Thank you! 😀
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Thanks a lot Tony! Had so much fun coming up with this. ☺️
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The face of her sister is there
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Ooh! I wonder what happened to her sister… Thank you for playing, Tnkerr. 🙂
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If you should choose this for the second line you will undoubtedly find out. Thanks for hosting this, the last one was a lot of fun!
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You guys are what make this fun. We’re grateful that many of you love to play! 😀
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