Hello all, is anyone up for a challenge? I know I am, I am posting this for all the poets who need a challenge every now and than. I thought I would start us out easy today, with a phrase challenge, the rules are as follows: you must use the phrase either in your title or the actual poem. The poem can be any length or style.

The Phrase is: rooms of the world

I will post my answer to this challenge shortly. Have fun everyone. Oh and only real poets should comment, no slamming or flaming rude comments allowed here on this challenge please. Thank you, Nica Bane, aka inkraven86

Rooms of the World-my challenge piece

Glass shattered my expectations

in these rooms of the world I reside in

when I did something to exert my mind

past the vast expanses

of the other month

on the line I had eight hours

that would soon turn winter

into ashes

for it is like a focused locust

like being out at nightclubs for three days

and than looking up at the skies

wondering where my days, life, love for myself went,

and then he called me

and the way water issues forth aliveness in your center

it was like I was born again without the birth,

as if my heart were saying, "Demand a Miracle!"

so that I could wash my stones away

to show the truth I brought back from Hades,

so that no jaded hate remained beneath my soul,

Go ask Alice, she knows all about that,

my sick burning veins screamed in unison,

perfect and sinful Alice,

soothing sleep in my stumbling pathos,

"Read my whole body." I had said so many times,

like a lantern without the pressure to shine,

there goes the fulcrum of my mind

resuming for him the game,

the name of desperate needs,

for the sound of love from his voice.

Nica Bane 11/16/08

Room of my world
my padded cell
of hell
trapped without a key
or
a chance of them setting me free
to see the world
that revolves around the
answer
that will make me well enough
too walk with no pain
or evil thoughts in my brain

constantly feeling what i felt before i
tighten the belt
around my neck
naked
scared
and
insane

failing time and time again to commit
the sin
that would free me
from what keeps me
from the
Rooms of the World

Wow! Welldone. Nice way to end it too, with the actual phrase, I like your title too, Room of my world. Powerful too. smiles, good morning

had to fix something

Oh I see, from what protects me to what keeps me, nice job, very interesting. smiles

Only "real poets?"

Why dont you read the Whole sentence. dont make this a bad thing

Whatever makes you think that question was a "bad thing?" It was simply a question. Dont read more into it than it was. Life is too short to be writing someone else's script.

<<---moving on now

OMG I feel so hurt now I am SO SOrry

I challenge the challenge

pushing back through the rooms of the world i reshape the shards

contract the expanse of these vaunted expectations

and reside between the spaces of the rooms

That place where pendulum stoppes and wind has no voice, yet all must heed.

Even i must stop............mid-sentence making no reverie,no breath within breath.

To breathe, to cause ripples on still water, would give me away.

Not this time!


I too have faced the gates of Hell, then faced away again.

Emptied the stone from my shoe only to have them refill 10 fold.

And Alice was a friend of mine, but dark hole she has chosen this time, has swallowed her for the last.

I no longer hear her voice calling, in this place between the rooms of the world.

Wow! That is awesome! Waaaaay Awesome! Thank you for doing the challenge. smiles v

When I said real poets, I did not mean it like it sounded, what I meant was, I did not want flaming or negative posts, like cruel referances to other peoples works, we are all poets in one way or another, we are all creative in one or another, I meant to invite all, I suppose I should rephrase it than, hmmm, suggestions would be good, perhaps you can help me, will you please help me reword it?

Perhaps just remove 'real poets' from the txt and leave 'no slamming or flaming comments, thank you kindly' ???

Thank you very much PDA, I will do that, but it would seem I will have to post an entire new challenge to do so, I cannot edit my original post, there is no edit in it, smiles, perhaps when I return with a challenge, it will be more fun, may your days be blessed all who came here, smiles v