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Write a Tanka
5-7-5-7-7 Number of syllables per line. Write them on what April means to you no matter where you are.
lnz5000 in Poetry & Free Verse
• 15 reads

April

The world aflame now

purple bursts through bursting green

the pink grin of flow'rs

Still my home more a hotel

but with you my heart does swell

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Challenge
Empty
Writing something that talks about empty. Things like floating in a endless void. Space or a black hole are some other ideas
lnz5000 in Stream of Consciousness
• 4 reads

Emptiness

Underappreciated

Overworked

Spiraling in a spiral

So windy not even God

Can see the end and it keeps

Going and going until

You reach a dead end and you have to turn around

But at this mark you’re so turned around

You can’t tell the ceiling from the ground

And the ground seems like a nice place to be

Because being is as inevitable as dying

But being just means spiraling

Not spiraling but bottling

Bottling and exploding

Exploding nothing because the bottle forgot what was inside

It’s been sitting there for so long

You can’t tell why, but you’re crying

Crying so hard and heaving

Not heaving but hurting, definitely hurting

And your eyes get all messed

And you try to block the sound

But you can’t tell the ceiling from the ground

And since they’re the same

At this point you’re already flying

So why not get some wings to reach the heavens

To touch the sun to touch the rain before it forms

The bottle before it gets shaken

The muscles before they ache

The heart before it breaks

Yourself before you’re taken

Just to sleep before you’re so exhausted that you can’t

To not climb but live atop the mound

And to tell the ceiling from the ground

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Challenge
Lovely
Something nice and sweet and clean. Show me something that feels like this :)
lnz5000
• 11 reads

I was painting in a daze

mind lost in a world

I didn't want to be in

I didn't want to be

I couldn't sleep the other night

and so my head was fogged

my brain was off

and the white paint covered the picture

Sweetly she shook me from my shadow

Serenely she said "is everything ok?"

She sang the words that stopped myself

from losing myself

Her hair was blonde and short

her name was zee

a little older than me, with kind eyes

the kind that can really see

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Challenge
Wine and dine over a rhyme
I don't like rhyming poetry. Humble me. Show me why I'm wrong. Write a poem or chew me out, just make sure to tag me.
lnz5000 in Poetry & Free Verse
• 8 reads

Rhymez

Rhyming poetry is a little restrictive

Of course it can be effective

Depending on your objective

But for me its majorly addictive

Near rhymes barely scrape

by just like my brother in high

school. He'd put that little white tape

over his D in psychology.

It takes a lot of planning, scheming,

rewriting, rereading,

Odd becomes our syntax

attempting to make our rhymes exact

But when you're Eminem

and you've made your second million

you'll bow to the power of rhymin'

or at least appreciate the complexities it adds to the work :)

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Challenge
The Greatest Gift
Your interpretation, your format.
lnz5000 in Stream of Consciousness
• 14 reads

I hope I make you feel

as terrible

as you make me feel

The greatest gift

you've ever given me

was a black eye

the greatest gift

I could bear to give you

was a punching bag

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Challenge
A lump of coal or ???
We all know someone who has not been especially good this year, some frankly nasty and ugly, yet in the spirit of giving, write what have you chosen for their stocking. Poetry only - free verse only, rhyming disqualifies.
lnz5000 in Poetry & Free Verse
• 13 reads

You Deserve It

You were bad this year

Very bad, worse than anyone I know

Careless, lazy, rotten, pathetic,

A godawful person.

Bad.

Deliciously bad

And you had more fun than anyone

How can Santa resist?

Look in that sock,

there's the cash you needed

for whatever

rubbish

you're thinking of doing

but don't forget to invite me.

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Challenge
Write a letter to your past self.
It can be a letter to your one-week ago self, one-year ago self, or maybe even your childhood self. You can offer them advice, warnings, information, or even false reassurances -- whatever you'd like.
lnz5000
• 21 reads

To myself, 4 seconds ago

Hey,

Read this quickly because there isn't a whole lot of time. Most importantly, you should really stop walking to read this because bad things can happen when you're walking without paying attention. Please look up and notice the coffee table in front of you a little to the left. Now pay attention to your feet. You are four seconds from catastrophe. If you would kindly step slightly right as to avoid the very painful crash of your toe into the bottom corner of that wooden table.

Yeah, I stubbed my toe. It really hurt. Save yourself.

You're welcome,

Your future self

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Challenge
DECEMBER MICROPOEMS!!!!
Write a suuuper short poem titled 'December' (sort of like a haiku but w/out syllable rules) and PLS TAG ME so I can read and enjoy ur fantastic words
lnz5000 in Micropoetry
• 6 reads

December

The stress of the month melts

in the cold

and the cold melts

in your warmth

because even though this December I'll cry

tomorrow I'll be looking in your eyes.

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By the Numbers
Write a fifteen word poem using the first letters of the first fifteen numbers: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen and Fifteen.
lnz5000 in Micropoetry
• 16 reads

Bad Days Aren’t Numbered

Only today

terrible feelings feel

somehow sourer.

Even naked trembles

erasing tremors

turn failed faith.

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Challenge
I Want Everyone To Enter This Challenge!!!!!!!!
I've been wondering for a while just how many people are on Prose. Soooo.... I want every single person who sees this challenge to enter it, so I can get a guestimate of how many people there are. What to write? Consider it a free advertisemant to everyone that you exist. Say hi, introduce yourself, and make some friends! I look forward to seeing you all soon!
lnz5000
• 19 reads

Lnz5000

When I feel something

I write

And sometimes when I don't

or can't

I miss the feeling

of ideas running through my head

and leaping

onto the white

My inspiration lies

in the lives of the people

I tell all my lies to

and those people

don't see what I write here

because when I type

there's no time to think

if I'm putting the words together

quite right

or if what I say

will change what they think

This is me without context

sometimes this person impresses me

and sometimes they put me to shame

but if I go on without this me

I don't really know who I would be

Thank you Prose

for this community

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