Fauxku Choo Choo (the play's the thing)

[bena]

Cloaks so thin
they may as well be dropped
skin to skin, eye to eye

the laser cuts retinal dreams
nebulas of afterbirth
translobal tranplants.


(yeah, yeah the funky driver is back)

[billy]

just to get the train back on tack

Rules

Your TINY poem should:

1. use 2 or more significant words from the previous poem.

2. echo some aspect of the previous poem (optional).

3. contain 1 to 4 lines, or be a limerick.

4. be a fauxku (fake haiku), a senryu, a real haiku (not that
anyone really knows what one is), or a whatever-you-please
(e.g. metaphorically dense rhyming Nyāya Sūtra).

Ancillary Rules:

5. If miscalculation, confusion, lapse in judgment, good intentions, ill temper,
addled thinking, or self-deception lead to snarl; don't try to communicate,
don't try to resolve: Just write something (e.g. lists of various vegetables
or something about dog diapers) and keep moving.

6. Use the "New Reply" button to pathetically attempt to impede the inevitable.

7. And YES! It's OK to play with yourself.

8. It's OK to add TINY extraneous (or not) notes.

please note: the first four poems were written before rules existed.
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in a cloak of fallen leaves
spring, summer, fall
forgotten
- rayheinrich
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Spill your silver stars
for my ears a golden moon
heady heart murmurs
- Heartafire
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stars and meadow and fireflies and moon
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busy night
- rayheinrich
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Passing equinox
A ripening barley crop
A new hair cut
- cidermaid
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equinox
our hippie earth mother
growing her hair long again
- rayheinrich
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Outdated sundial
mother's herb garden
flowers in her hair.
- cidermaid
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outdated sundial (and mom)
run slow
(they catch up at night)
- rayheinrich
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[bena]

I was intentionally off tack. Now you ruined it for me. God, I hate rules~

*stomps out with a transplanted brain*

[billy]

the laser cuts retinal dreams
nebulas of afterbirth
translobal tranplants.

i never see the nebulas
i never see the stars in dream
i'm buying a telescope

[Keith]

i never see the nebulas
i never see the stars in dream
i'm buying a telescope

Revolving telescope eyes
see the Deadheads spread like flowers
on a sedimentary Red Rocks bed

[cidermaid]

Revolving telescope eyes
see the Deadheads spread like flowers
on a sedimentary Red Rocks bed

Scotch on the rocks
Deadhead eyes the hostess.
A bit of turbulance ahead.

[ChristopherSea]

I was intentionally off tack. Now you ruined it for me. God, I hate rules~

*stomps out with a transplanted brain*

The rule you broke was skipping back to Ella's little diddy before mine!

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Scotch on the rocks
Deadhead eyes the hostess.
A bit of turbulance ahead.

Irishman dead on the rocks
tried to kiss her Gand Tetons
instead of the Blarney Stone

[ellajam]

Rule 5 rules.

5. If miscalculation, confusion, lapse in judgment, good intentions, ill temper,
addled thinking, or self-deception lead to snarl; don't try to communicate,
don't try to resolve: Just write something (e.g. lists of various vegetables
or something about dog diapers) and keep moving.

Irishman dead on the rocks
tried to kiss her Gand Tetons
instead of the Blarney Stone

blarney runs rampant
best to steal a kiss
and run

[just mercedes]

blarney runs rampant
best to steal a kiss
and run

rum kisses
from a stolen stone
running up legs like ladders

[ChristopherSea]

rum kisses
from a stolen stone
running up legs like ladders

rumba on a window ledge
to steal a glimpse of nylons
running down her legs like Merlot

[just mercedes]

rumba on a window ledge
to steal a glimpse of nylons
running down her legs like Merlot

stealing nylons from window ledges
dancing down alleys as dawn
runs along drains like hair dye

[Keith]

stealing nylons from window ledges
dancing down alleys as dawn
runs along drains like hair dye


Thunder-clouds clap magic tricks
stealing dawn before my eyes
hedgerow wings are drawn up like duvets

[just mercedes]

Thunder-clouds clap magic tricks
stealing dawn before my eyes
hedgerow wings are drawn up like duvets

draw the duvet over your eyes
and a dutch oven thunderclap
will steal dawn's magic away

[ChristopherSea]

Thunder-clouds clap magic tricks
stealing dawn before my eyes
hedgerow wings are drawn up like duvets

draw the duvet over your eyes
and a dutch oven thunderclap
will steal dawn's magic away

that's a riot mercedes!

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draw the duvet over your eyes
and a dutch oven thunderclap
will steal dawn's magic away

donning a gas mask,
no longer drawing my tongue
between your thighs under that duvet

[Erthona]

draw the duvet over your eyes
and a dutch oven thunderclap
will steal dawn's magic away

double dutch rope
spins before your eyes and
young girls' thighs

[ChristopherSea]

double dutch rope
spins before your eyes and
young girls' thighs

in dutch with a hangman's rope
about your neck for your sins
between young girls' thighs

[ellajam]

in dutch with a hangman's rope
about your neck for your sins
between young girls' thighs


light from a Dutch street pours
onto a lost world's map
and a girl's laughter

[ChristopherSea]

light from a Dutch street pours
onto a lost world's map
and a girl's laughter

in nether lands beneath
the cartographer’s compass rose
I hear Persephone crying

[ellajam]

in nether lands beneath
the cartographer’s compass rose
I hear Persephone crying

Persephone's tears burst
into snowdrops, pushing upwards
from beneath ice-coated drifts

[ChristopherSea]

Persephone's tears burst
into snowdrops, pushing upwards
from beneath ice-coated drifts

drink pomegranate wine
gather crocuses for Anthesphoria
leave the melting ice for Hades