Tendrils of Pain

Woe be the agony growing in the pit of my stomach
Lanced through the torso by a virtual sword
I cry pardon the strains and pressure of the day
Spoken stresses provide no relief and peace

Should I keel over or collapse
These painful wounds continue to relapse
I find agony in each drink
Pain digested in every meal

A cure for these ailments must be sought
A war for my healing must be fought
For only if my mind is at peace
May my body heal from wounds so deep

Agony strikes and vomit rises
Doubling over again for today
I can’t stop but think paradise awaits
At the end of these troubled days

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

I was so busy at work today that I took the random words on twitter and had barely any time to really think about it and come up with something.  So I just threw 90 seconds and crafted as quickly as possible just to get something together.  What came out was sort of a chaotic mess, but reveals an inner meaning and actually turned out better than I expected.

Thank you to the following people for providing the 9 words highlighted in blue.

@summerbreeze80 (octopus), @azredneck  (demand), @grumpy79 (faith), @IntegralChaotic (landslide), @mebanded (marketable), @infohwyman (environment), @SJohnson85 (sprinkles), @SurfCityJay (information), @stevebelt (precious)

Bad Decisions

Choices loom about you like the tendrils of an octopus
You call upon your faith and make decisions based on information
Matters demand your attention
Your poor decisions bury people in a landslide
Lies dusted off of half truth fall in sprinkles
One thing you hold precious
Your soul is not marketable in this environment
Confessions cannot absolve failure
Blood does not quench the thirsty
Pain does not end the suffering
Ice does not stop the burning
And in the end
All you can do is reveal the truth
And wait for judgement

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

To play my game reach out to me @dragonblogger during weekdays on twitter and look for my call for random words typically Monday through Friday 9am - 11am MST.

I also need your vote to win Best Blog of 2008 for my Poetry Blog, please take the time and click here to vote for me.

I wrote another poem with my young son at his request, I let him come up with a title and some of the lines and together we created the rhyming lines.  He did the voice recording and enjoyed it the entire time.

Bug In A Tank

This is my bug in the tank
Which I have my dad to thank

He caught it for me
Found it in a tree

It can be called a grasshopper
but really locust is more proper

It jumps up in the air so high
I hope that away it won’t fly

It eats sticks and leaves so green
I keep the tank all nice and clean

Speckled yellow with brown spots
Even having some white dots

Finding him was good luck
But momma thinks bugs are yuck

-Poem by Dragon Blogger and Son

I hadn’t done a random twitter poem in about a week and I had to run some errands which prevented me from having the full normal time to do a random twitter poem in one sitting, but I was still able to craft this poem based on seven random words (highlighted in blue) from my followers on twitter who played today.

Thanks to the following people for submitting their words: @SurfCityJay (love), @grumpy79 (euphoria), @izealove (sycophant), @summerbreeze80 (desperation), @WebBetty (fastidious), @SonoranDragon (spizzerinctum), @infohwyman (triumph)

Madness For Love

One is driven to desperation
For the euphoria some call love
Muster up all the spizzerinctum you have
Love need not be a fastidious game

Love ebbs and flows like the tide
It is there without realizing it
It is found without searching for it
Flowing around you like the ocean

A sycophant has no chance of finding it
Nor one whose greed see’s no good
A lonely heart may not even notice it
As a careless one could easily lose it

Finding love is one’s ultimate triumph
Sustaining it is an even bigger accomplishment
All find hope in this ocean of fish
Where the water itself is what you sought all along

-Dragon Blogger

My poetry blog has won Best Poetry Blog category and won Best Blog of December 2008 from BlogNetAwards.com.  I am so excited and happy, this is all due to my poetry fans and followers who have taken some time out of their schedule to vote for me.  My friends and fans, now that I have won the best blog of December 2008, I am hoping to really accomplish something great.  I want to try and see if my unique poetry blog can win Best Blog of 2008 that would be incredible and amazing.

I will continue to put out my random twitter poems and write poems as they come to me, in the meantime I would appreciate you taking the time to consider voting for Wanderer Thoughts as Best Poetry Blog of 2008 on BlogNetAwards.

-Dragon Blogger

Sacrifice is Salvation

The stone that fills my chest
A jagged rock buried deep
My sacrifice is my only salvation
Poison festers in my soul
One life it is a pity
That it should end in misery

Dark gremlins line the steps
Doors crumble in my wake
Lies breed like insects
Lives are broken
Decay lies at my doorstep
A skeleton bears the only key

A light calls down through the shade
A calling to a higher truth
Shadows cower in the light
Love shines a way that’s clear
A single lifeline of hope
In a flash despair fights panic

A stroke so swift and so good
Cleanse the evil and the dark
Split the stone so love can bleed
Fill ones pores with hope
Fill ones mind with calm
Fill ones soul with freedom

Sacrifice is Salvation

With 10 random words provided today (highlighted in blue) a theme formed from the first several words, but then some curve balls were thrown in and I had to work at it to get them to fit.  Overall, I think the poem came out okay but it didn’t take the direction I originally was wanting.  What do you think?

Here are the 10 people and their words who contributed today from twitter:

@wizzardsblog (hectic), @summerbreeze80 (caress), @coreblox (somnambulant), @azredneck (pharmacy), @Miragi (loquacious), @lejonprime (predisposed), @brullig (smarmy), @izealove (parade), @jamiain (basketball), @_McLaughlin (Tuesday)

Sleep Walking

Having trouble sleeping for weeks
Life troubles are a stench that reeks

Hectic job causes too much stress
With no one at home to hold and caress

Having become a somnambulant sleeper
Losing track of time as I fall deeper

Living this way has been rough
This Tuesday I finally had enough

Smarmy doctor wrote me a scrip
To the store I then took a trip

Pharmacy has sold me this pill
To help me sleep and lie still

A loquacious person in my sleep
I reveal the secrets that I keep

Was I predisposed to this condition
Finding a cure is my new mission

I sat down much later that night
Watching basketball, my hopes were bright

If this pill works, I hoped and prayed
I would flaunt the cure in a parade

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

I deliberately left this poem open ended, leaving the reader to not know whether it works or doesn’t.

My 5 year old and I decided to create a kids poem together, and he volunteered to narrate it.  Let us know what you think.

I Wish For A Fish

Mommy, Daddy how I wish
For small little gold fish

One to keep in a bowl or jar
So he won’t swim very far

His colors can be gold or red
I can feed him pieces of bread

We can feed him goldfish food
And he will eat when in the mood

I think I shall name him chips
I watch as he opens and closes his lips

He swims up and gulps some air
I just enjoy sitting down to stare

Thank you for this fish
You have granted my little wish

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

This extra long edition of the WOOF contest had 2 sections and Poetry had its own dedicated top 5.  Prose had its own top 5 as well.

WOOF Contest – Top Picks:

Poetry

Khaye Cardenas  - “The Woman’s Silent Prayer” - Every woman’s silent prayer.

Dragon Blogger - “Two Sides To Every Tale” - Poem about a man being wrongly accused and sentenced.

Dragon Blogger - “Why Does Mommy Cry?” - Emotional poem about parents fighting from the mind of a child.

Daisy Bookworm - “Breath” - A poem detailing the evils of wearing real, steel boned corsets for a woman.

exquisite corpse – “Great Is The Morning” – Collaborative Poetry.

Prose

Fiction

Jenn - “Worlds Apart (Chapter One)” - The first chapter of a multi-part story about a relationship doomed by the time in which it occurred.

Jennifer M Scott - “Dear God” - a woman writes a letter to god asking for her death.

Opinion / Non-Fiction / Non Fiction Rant

Harneet Singh  - “Life with an Aim” - Today people are becoming more materialistic. They attach their aim of life with the materialistic things.

Amritbir Kaur - “The Yardsticks of Life - Success and Failure” - Is life measurable? Can we divide it into watertight compartments of success and failure? Find answers to these and much more…

About Writing

Khaye Cardenas – “Please Excuse Me I Am Writing Again” - The writer talks about the things that keep her from writing.

Brought to you by PlotDog Press with the Serial Suspense Screenplay “Intervention“

-Dragon Blogger