Our Dearest Readers,
We have an important question for you. It’s so important that we must lean close and ask it in hushed tones. You’d best lean in too, lest you miss it! Ready?
BOO!
Okay, are you scared now? Yes? Now you know how we felt. We were so scared when we saw how many amazing submissions there were for the previous instalment of Open-Source Poetry! How on earth were we going to pick just one to add to this new lyrical masterpiece? It wasn’t going to be easy.
So, after a great many incantations over blood-soaked prayer beads ripped from the entrails of a satanically depressed gerbil, we eventually settled on Munira Ezzi’s sparkling contribution. Well… we’re kidding, of course. How could we rely on silly bloody incantations? Only a coin toss would do. (Although we do find it rather strange that the results matched.) Anyway, her lines felt like such a logical progression from what had gone before, so we ended up agreeing with the aforementioned incantations and coin toss outcome. How could we not use her contribution?
Now, if you would like us to agonise over your contributions for the next part of this poem in a similar fashion, we suggest you pay attention to the following rules:
1) Read the current version of this communal poetic effort below, and marvel at how scarily good it is (or is that goodily scary?). Then submit your own line or two for our consideration.
2) If we like your line (or two) the best, we’ll add it to the poem, then we’ll publish said result in a follow-up post.
3) Then you keep submitting frightening wordage aplenty in an attempt to chill us to the bone some more!
4) And so the whole process of submission and rejection is repeated until we finally have a horrifying new masterpiece!
PS: For those who may still be recovering from their New Years hangover, we remind them of the topic to the poem… It’s in the style of a good ol’ horror movie!
hm, what should I draw?
maybe a hairy monster with a furry claw
or a demon crow that sticks in the craw
or a huge bloodstained saw
hm, what should I write?
maybe a slow growl will stir up a fright
or a girl will be twirled by a meat-eating kite
or grandma pole-dances in a bikini too tight
by TETIANA ALEKSINA, TONY SINGLE, TOMAS MANKUS & MUNIRA EZZI
© All rights reserved 2020
Hm, what’s that?
The words have disappeared and the pictures are not flat…
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Hm. Are you looking at this on a mobile device, Munira? 😦
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Ah, that could be one interpretation I suppose. Mobile devices are quite scary, you’re not wrong.. I was thinking more along the lines of…
Is that a grandma now wearing a witch hat?
And I could swear I just saw the shadow of a bat…
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OH! Good grief. I’m really a bit dim, aren’t I? 😛
Very sorry about that, Munira. I think my brain has caught up now, and I really dig your contribution. Thank you for playing! 😉
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hm, what should i be?
perhaps a social climber dropping names from a tree
or a grin exterminator making grinfolk gasp and flee
when i wield the woodless weapon of a limp anthology?
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Impressive contribution! Thank you so much! 😀
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My pleasure!
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Perhaps grandma should
Slither down
Resting her withered old bones in the cemetery across town
Time to embrace the demons crawling around
I’m quite certain their shifting across the walls would be alluring, given the chance to slide on the pole, seduction infused fear wearing only a crown
I have to say, their glowing red eyes are enticingly horrifying but have a luminous quality for stabbing around.
LOL
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Ha! That is BRILLIANT, Taylor! Thanks so much for playing! 😂
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Thank you so much Tony xoxo
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It was SO good! 😀
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Oh wow! I really appreciate it, I was up all night and just feeling silly with words lol
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It certainly paid off then! And I’m so glad you shared the result!
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❤❤❤
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Thank you 🙇 try us 😂😂😂🕯️🕯️🕯️
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Aw, thanks so much! 😛
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Great one!!! Well done all the writers contributed.
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Thanks so much! 😀
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Well chuffed, or maybe a little creeped – possibly both but definitely very grateful for the mention! Can’t wait for the next part 😀
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We’re really grateful for your contribution! It really adds so much to this wonderful Frankenstein’s monster of a poem we’re trying to create! 🙂
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The pleasure is all mine! Although I think,
You may have mixed up my wordpress site link.
No worries, “it happens in life” says my mom.
Just head on over to sixfourtytwothings.wordpress.com
😀
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My apologies for that! I’ve fixed it, and hopefully everyone will go to the right place now! 😛
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my submission will scare the pants off ya!
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Hee hee hee. We’ll just make sure to wear pants with extra strong elastic… 😛
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Lol! Be sure to do that cause I’ve got scary stuff.
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😂😂😂
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iys coming , prepare yourselves 😊
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😮 😮 😮
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👀my scary stuff didn’t go through. Catch you on the PC.
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It didn’t go through? 😦
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I have to access your comments on my PC , phone doesn’t work there. It’s spooky. 😊
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That is! Supernatural shenanigans, clearly! 😛
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For real. I hope I’m not to late to add my scary bit 🤗
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You have all the time in the world, so please feel free to sling a line or two our way. We’re quite intrigued as to what you’ll come up with… 😛
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Today…😊
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Ooh! Now, that’s exciting! I’m wiggling like a… erm, wiggly thing with a wiggly bottom. Or something. 😛
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