"Ok... This idea is for an experimental poem...
My idea is that anyone who wants to can contribute a stanza per "chapter." The only real rule being to try and see if you can stick to the rhythm and rhyme scheme.
The subject matter is dreams so you could basically talk about whatever you wanted.
Maybe I'll start with a few stanzas to kick it off."
"A spin-off of Hollywood Romance."
"My musings on events in my life."
"We all want something that's missing in our life, something that lacks and makes a part of us long for it with all our heart.
For me, that thing was a family. A one and whole family.
This is my story of love, loss, and regret and how much I wish my life could be different but have come to accept that the past will never change."
"Harley is just trying to fit in and have fun during highschool, but her parents make life difficult, goo thing she has her brother at her side."
"In my story there are people called the marked which are the main characters, and the markings, since they were the cause of getting them marked. Every marked kind of goes through the same thing. Hence the poem."
"Emery Ora is the Wise Man - he is the eyes and hands of the Sun God. One day, he comes across a village which claimed to be plagued by a ferocious demon with huge, feathery white wings. Emery sets out to find the "demon" but soon discovers that all is not as it seems..."
"all my secrets; all our stories and souls released into a short narrative of our chosen form. open collab., no rules save you mustn't be offensive to other writers on here and you must justify any hating/offense you put (i.e. even if you just say WHY you hate so-and-so, unless it's a fictional character in which case GO AHEAD AND KILL THEM WITH YOUR METAPHORS).
Happy reading and writing and healing. It's going to be a good year for us, I can feel it in the snow."
"This is called a Found Poem. The idea is to pick a piece of prose and pick a section. Within that section you pick out words and create a poem from them. The catch is that the words you pick must be used in the order they appear in the text.
This poem is a result from a passage that I used from: A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce."
"I wrote this for my Grandfather who passed away due to cancer. It was featured on the Funeral Service card."
"Mind and soul travels through life and experience with one final conclusion."
"A unhappy time I can now look back on."
"When one girl dies, nothing substantial changes. At least, nothing appears to. Until one boy is hijacked to live the dead girls life.
As troy about how when one light goes out, a thousand more go out too.
(Would love to collaborate with someone on this!)"
"Have you ever been in that situation where your out of control of your own destiny?
Where you want to go back to a moment and erase all events?
This is one of those poems dedicated to one of those situations. Except now I am trying to make light of it."
"5000 miles away. In a canyon. Someone changed my perspective on alot of my personal views. For that I am enternally grateful."
"kelly enjoys long walks on the beach, warm winter nights by the fire and hanging at the mall with her friends. but then she meets greg, the young musical genious who took her heart with three little words "I'd like to"..."
