NOCTURNAL
Creatures of the night have to fight a lot
as darkness covers path of life.
Creatures of the night prompt like shark
being active at dark.
Extra cautious like owl
turning head hundred eighty degree.
May be terrorist, thief, dacoit, drunkard,
ferocious animals.or
mice and rats peeping in the kitchen.
Nocturnal are night-gazing twinkling stars and maroon Moon.
Night guards and Light house both alert at night.
Or even a despondent spending sleepless night
enduring betrayal
or lamenting on lost love.
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Writing Challenge - N words
Third Place
Contest by Constance La France.
Categories:
dacoit, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Reduced to nuggets of the dacoit time
Under the burden of spent splendour
Shattered silhouette in a shabby corner
The inexorable skeleton of lovely life
Entreats the Grim Reaper for mercy
Daffodils look at you in trembling awe
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June 17, 2016
Categories:
dacoit, change, cry, destiny, metaphor,
Form: Acrostic
I remember those days of long summer
Oh, the joys of school summer vacation
Of playing hide and seek to endless hours
Pretending to slay the ferocious dragon
And to catch the notorious dacoit Ravan.
When all else played, at trees we looked up
In the hope to find the juiciest fruit mango
Now we looked down, mangos looked up.
Before I could satisfy my hunger with amigos
Were chased out by fuming gardener Rodrigo.
And still not giving up, seeking other means
To the neighbor’s fence we would climb over
Lurk in the shadows when all clear and clean
Obliged juicy fruits that calling us under cover
Less forbidding but exciting, if not any more.
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Form Quintain
Eighth place win
Contest: No.8 by Linda
Categories:
dacoit, childhood, humorous,
Form: Quintain (English)
A synopsis untried, a life unended
The wheel spins as the days protract
A look at the mirror surrounding the dire
I feel my soul, my life and my being
Each day that I be
Each moment that I see
Fundamentally I decree
Knowledge be'eth my surrender
Yet self provoked it opens adventure
Lies and deceit, the dacoit he knoweth
So infinite and atomic
Indefinate to us all
Supposed awesome wonder at his behest
Quality awaits this unfathomable test
Categories:
dacoit, confusionlife,
Form: Free verse