Challenge
Poetry contest. Twenty word minimum. First place will be decided based on the poem, of course, though the number of comments posted by others will be factored in (critiques or praise, no one word or three word quickies) and those who comment should "like" it to keep the judges looking for updated reads. Write a poem about anything. Aim for the gut. Winner gets $100.
Poetry for the Poisonous
9:12 p.m. tobacco stained breath
Fuliginous smoke rolling in nightly gloom/keyboard missing letters T, R, H, U
and that same sombre silhouette of a stranger poisons
the discoloured wall of his past poetic smiles.
Or is that a sleepwalker writing epilogues on the sand?
Only he knows the magnetic seduction of his lies
Indistinct demarcations,
no beginning to poisonous fictions by his words