Ultimate Improv SLAM Results-Phaeties vs Budsilver

Phaeties and Budsilver battled it out to a full house and when the votes were counted- Budsilver was the winner!
Bud will receive a Poetry Tag Group " I Won the PTG Slam" Shirt and he will compete in the Slam-Off for a prize worth $50.
It was a very close contest and we'd like to thank and congratulate Phaeties & Budsilver for a wonderful night of Improv. Thanks also to Hostess Imapoettoo & Tally Redking44! A Special Thank you to those who attended- and voted!


The First Topic :

BudSilver: "The Third Door"
BudSilver: .
BudSilver: My eyes are closed, I can feel the sound
BudSilver: Heart's palpitating, I've lost too much ground
BudSilver: Always yearning, searching for more
BudSilver: Nothing appears behind the first door
BudSilver: .
BudSilver: Silence screaming, I'm starting to shake
BudSilver: Every second a decision, that only I can make
BudSilver: My soul is floating, two feet off the floor
BudSilver: Nothing appears behind the second door
BudSilver: .
BudSilver: The time is now, I must take a chance
BudSilver: Too much at stake in humanitys dance
BudSilver: Finally what I've sought, tears start to pour
BudSilver: My future was found behind the third door.
BudSilver: .
BudSilver: the end


Phaeties: The third door....
Phaeties: Behind the presence of this wandering lustre
Phaeties: Are the stars that crowd overhead in bright glowing clusters
Phaeties: Silver ribbons of light gleam down on the living labrynth below
Phaeties: Three doors to enter the winding paths, each framed in natures splended wrath
Phaeties: One covered with rust, time and misttrust
Phaeties: Its door handle broken and shattered, hinges weak and materials tattered
Phaeties: The second door, rises up a series of steps
Phaeties: Its make is of translucent black glass, etched in the middle is the face of a laughing art nouveau lass
Phaeties: Higher yet is the door upon the balcony, old vines make for a rope like climb
Phaeties: Of sorrow and reverence, which door would one walk?
Phaeties: The more concealed, the divine, or persay ravaged with grime?
Phaeties: Perhaps one would walk through that presented to them, each its own gem
Phaeties: The values of fine things, easy steps to climb, or the path less traveled by?
Phaeties: Assiduously one paces, no like to the choices more or less offered
Phaeties: Conjecture then that there is more that what there appears to be, an illusion of choices
Phaeties: Follow the one inner feeling, the silent call of voices
Phaeties: Steps then are mustered to pry at the very walls of stone
Phaeties: Settling then, is the adventurer to make entance of his own.
Phaeties: -end



The Second Topic:


Phaeties: Sand and glass..
Phaeties: -
Phaeties: As the mixture swirls through the atmosphere
Phaeties: Colors collide before our eyes, spectrums of love and lust
Phaeties: Sins bleed through the living sands, melting into a spetrum of elixors
Phaeties: Vision is lost through a dry druken haze, as wicked lips blossom
Phaeties: Into a dessert of fading embers and burning whispers upon lover's ears
Phaeties: Raptures persperiation courses down the curves of moving shadows
Phaeties: Mired in light, lips mingle upon petel soft skin, a whirlwind
Phaeties: Of sand, our bodies writhe in the heat of reverberating desire
Phaeties: In an unholy dance of divinty on stained glass, we devour one another completely,
Phaeties: Eating each other ashes, leaving no trace, of the bleeding sounds or laughing echoes
Phaeties: I like your lips with no disgrace, using my tongue to build a temporal temple to passion's throws
Phaeties: Inside this sanctum, have faith that our flesh will lust
Phaeties: Trust in me, as we walk in the darkness, that the pillars of morality may crumble
Phaeties: Hence once so that our languid bodies may thrash and tumble
Phaeties: Scorching each others heart, damned lost and adrift to clutch each other
Phaeties: through the reflections of our eyes, -d
Phaeties: and that "lick your lips with no disgrace"
Phaeties: end


BudSilver: "Sand and Glass"
BudSilver: .
BudSilver: Surreal images, woven in hues
BudSilver: Artist's hand, paint a delicate picture
BudSilver: Nuances and feels, hands to the clay
BudSilver: Displayed on a canvas of an intricate mind
BudSilver: An illusion twisted, by sand and glass
BudSilver: Nothing like this has been formed before
BudSilver: Dainty, disfigured, a collector's delight
BudSilver: Glassblown figurine, dancing in stars
BudSilver: Lady has now stepped out of time
BudSilver: An orchestra plays her lone silouhette
BudSilver: Spinning in circles, to a symphony's tune
BudSilver: Sand and glass, have now come to life
BudSilver: .
BudSilver: the end
.

Improv Poetry Contest Winners November 2008

Winner
Farmazist
"ARE WE GOING TO DO THIS AGAIN?"
Topic by APoetWithin

Farmazist: ARE WE GOING TO DO THIS AGAIN?
Farmazist: .
Farmazist: I was under the impression
Farmazist: The last argument was truly that
Farmazist: Another bowel cleanser of anger
Farmazist: A bottle of hatred spilled on the floor
Farmazist: Consuming what was left
Farmazist: Of the decency we tried so hard
Farmazist: To cover up with a bandage
Farmazist: I saw this one coming though
Farmazist: On channel 3 news at ten
Farmazist: It was not even the weatherman
Farmazist: What does that tell you about velocity?
Farmazist: Of the winds raging from us?
Farmazist: The tell tale signs must be heeded
Farmazist: No more finding the dead end streets
Farmazist: TIme to turn around and find the interstate
Farmazist: That either pulls us completely apart
Farmazist: Or provides the cement to hold us together
Farmazist: I promise to erase my clichés
Farmazist: If you will forget the rant
Farmazist: Wither way I quit
Farmazist: .
Farmazist: the end


©Farmizist





Runner Up
HummingDragonfly
"Silent Storm"
Topic by Cybersxpoetess

HummingDragonfly: SILENT STORM
HummingDragonfly: .
HummingDragonfly: .
HummingDragonfly: .
HummingDragonfly: the tale of the ages
HummingDragonfly: rings upon the mind
HummingDragonfly: seeking depths unfathomed
HummingDragonfly: beyond the soul
HummingDragonfly: beyond the senses
HummingDragonfly: where I was before this place
HummingDragonfly: now
HummingDragonfly: the door to heaven
HummingDragonfly: is there- a silent storm
HummingDragonfly: .
HummingDragonfly: the world is a noisy cacophony
HummingDragonfly: shrieks, shouts, jangling of nervous
HummingDragonfly: flight from the self
HummingDragonfly: memories of hell are there
HummingDragonfly: all comfort is sought in flight
HummingDragonfly: from mind's endlessness
HummingDragonfly: eternity terrifies mortality
HummingDragonfly: .
HummingDragonfly: oh I am weary and hurting so
HummingDragonfly: all thoughts of present are pain
HummingDragonfly: let me wander within again
HummingDragonfly: seeking solace
HummingDragonfly: freedom from this place
HummingDragonfly: and there the silent storm
HummingDragonfly: rings upon the mind
HummingDragonfly: frees a soul
HummingDragonfly: and bathes in endless light
HummingDragonfly: .
HummingDragonfly: end

©HummingDragonfly




Honorable Mention
Jaygirl 718
"Tokens Of Trust"
Topic by Farmazist

Jaygirl 718: Tokens of trust
Jaygirl 718: ~
Jaygirl 718: Give me you hand
Jaygirl 718: I promise not to hold too tightly
Jaygirl 718: ~
Jaygirl 718: Give me your ear
Jaygirl 718: I promise not to shout
Jaygirl 718: ~
Jaygirl 718: Give me your voice
Jaygirl 718: I will listen carefully
Jaygirl 718: ~
Jaygirl 718: Give me your arms to wrap around me
Jaygirl 718: And I will hug your fears away
Jaygirl 718: ~
Jaygirl 718: Kiss me softly upon my lips
Jaygirl 718: I will ease your pain
Jaygirl 718: ~
Jaygirl 718: Share your heartfelt dreams
Jaygirl 718: For just a moment relax
Jaygirl 718: ~
Jaygirl 718: Let yourself try and trust another
Jaygirl 718: take the chance to love and be loved
Jaygirl 718: ~
Jaygirl 718: Come to me just as you are
Jaygirl 718: A simple broken man
Jaygirl 718: ~
Jaygirl 718: I will talk and listen to you
Jaygirl 718: With sweet silence and soft laughter
Jaygirl 718: ~
Jaygirl 718: No need to fear
Jaygirl 718: For I willing and able
Jaygirl 718: To wipe away all your sad tears
Jaygirl 718: end

©Jaygirl718

Improv Poetry Contest Winners 9.20.08

Winner
MosiGail
“Seeds of Pulse”
topic by Pityflutes

MosiGail: It beats in time,
MosiGail: 120 over 80,
MosiGail: It tells time, tick and tock,
MosiGail: Seeds grow and bulge,
MosiGail: What slows down
MosiGail: now, is the new
MosiGail: to lead and grow,
MosiGail: one seed, and a pulse
MosiGail: is a beat, and music,
MosiGail: Drummer time it right,
MosiGail: pulse and seed bloom.

©MosiGail

Runner Up
BudSilver
"Maybe I'm Wrong"
topic by Dreamsbyday

BudSilver: Descent into my innermost parts
BudSilver: Masked by the pain of a lonely heart
BudSilver: Time waits for no man, so it's been said
BudSilver: If you cut me, I bleed...and it's always red
BudSilver: I'm just a man with flaws, too many to count
BudSilver: The mountain of misery is too high to mount
BudSilver: I can only express myself in poetry and song
BudSilver: Yet too many have judged me, maybe I'm wrong
BudSilver: Is it wrong to know that you care too much
BudSilver: Or you long for the feeling of just being touched
BudSilver: How long must I suffer, this pain all alone
BudSilver: Unable to describe it, a long wistful moan
BudSilver: Inside I must just possess a big heart
BudSilver: I turn back to my roots, go forward from start
BudSilver: As I ascend back to this painful "reality"
BudSilver: It's the time that haunts and tears apart me
BudSilver: If ever by chance, we do meet again
BudSilver: My soul will be blessed, by the touch of my friend

©BudSilver

Hosts Choice
Dreamsbyday
"Strange Lights at Night"
topic by BudSilver

DreamsbyDay: In darkest deepest night, there shines a light
DreamsbyDay: 'neath eyelids shut to hide the world from sight
DreamsbyDay: where visions scatter into flashing bits
DreamsbyDay: and fantasy 's reality’s misfit
DreamsbyDay: .
DreamsbyDay: Odd faces in the blackness, gleaming there
DreamsbyDay: where nothing is supposed to be, or dare
DreamsbyDay: Odd glimmers, unknown voices, eerie sounds
DreamsbyDay: where all that is the nothingness abounds.
DreamsbyDay: .
DreamsbyDay: Who touches me? Who's fingers swiped my face ?
DreamsbyDay: What manner of strange beings host this place?
DreamsbyDay: where everything is clearer in the dark
DreamsbyDay: and 'lectric pulses sanctify and spark...
DreamsbyDay: .
DreamsbyDay: strange lights at night, and stranger lights at day
DreamsbyDay: for what does day or night, mean- anyway?

©DreamsbyDay

Improv Poetry Contest 8.09.08

 

Winner
Risinsun 28
"Before I Realized"
topic by Dreamsbyday

RisinSun28:  havent made the leap ? my friend the
RisinSun28:  hill is steep, my friend
RisinSun28:  dependant before i relized
RisinSun28:  your face might go wasplike, mining
RisinSun28:  pearls of default, your eyes relented mixed
RisinSun28:  emotion for indentured seducing, exclusive
RisinSun28:  sucking of soul sought flickers
RisinSun28:  passing before time had a chance
RisinSun28:  to relate them to lightning, sparks
RisinSun28:  reignited intruding this darkness
RisinSun28:  grown in the space between you , your mom
RisinSun28:  and my ingenious self assesment, basement
RisinSun28:  of lesions, pits of corrosion, fleeing
RisinSun28:  this vision i leapt away roaming
RisinSun28:  no meaning to owing the wandering notion
RisinSun28:  a passing glance, caressing the chance
RisinSun28:  for to stay, expressively shifting the
RisinSun28:  gratitude lifting the gray
RisinSun28:  if only you knew those who felt oft older
RisinSun28:  when holding their knees and betwixted in dismay
RisinSun28:  the years only 30's the deepend a flirting
RisinSun28:  the motion detector of lotioned bodies loitering out on the bay
RisinSun28:  if ever i knew you i left behind knowledge
RisinSun28:  if i ever i grew through the hate that despondently splayed
RisinSun28:  open this momentous dementia disparaged betrayal
RisinSun28:  the trail of lies tickle your fancy i'd scratch in the wall
RisinSun28:  looking for answers in white paint chipping to play
RisinSun28:  games with the mistrust of shelters protection and
RisinSun28:  only the ceiling would gently hold maybe
RisinSun28:  without a writing within in me i read on the support beam
RisinSun28:  "if you can't understand my silence,
RisinSun28:  you will never understand mywords"
©RisinSun28

 

Runner Up
APoetWithin
"Hunger Grows"
topic by Risinsun28

APoetWithin:  Grazing like a herd of cattle
APoetWithin:  Never satiated
APoetWithin:  Why does food offer no satisfaction
APoetWithin:  Hunger just grows
APoetWithin:  Along with girth
APoetWithin:  Food is not an answer
APoetWithin:  Symptoms grow in number
APoetWithin:  Sadness and angst
APoetWithin:  Close eyes to hold back tears
APoetWithin:  Never let them see you cry
APoetWithin:  Hold back anger by filling your mouth
APoetWithin:  There is no cure for misery
APoetWithin:  The only answer lies within
APoetWithin:  Exorcise the demons
©APoetWithin 

 

Honorable Mention
Here's Slipknot41
"Trouble Ahead"
topic by DreamsbyDay

Slipknot41:  I never liked the Grateful Dead
Slipknot41:  and failed to see the need for Rolling Stones worship
Slipknot41:  but when it came to being a walking florence flask..
Slipknot41:  Sure;  pour those unknown substances straight in !
Slipknot41:  thumb over the top, shake it up a bit
Slipknot41:  yeah !    eyes can glow anew !
Slipknot41:  it would be funny if that ended it
Slipknot41:  in my case, the heartburn spread itself thru the neverous system
Slipknot41:  lodged while secondary, third and fourth-dary reactions took
place
Slipknot41:  now I'd say the vessel I possess resembles more the unknown in
itself
Slipknot41:  have hilarity, half outrage
Slipknot41:  it's a good thing healing by blueprint design
Slipknot41:  supercedes all
©Slipknot41

 

 

Hosts Selection
Lowtekman5
"The tears behind the smile"
topic by Apoetwithin

lowtekman5:  If we couldnt laugh we would go insane
lowtekman5:  So a songwriter said
lowtekman5:  some who cant laugh would rather die
lowtekman5:  they think the pain will dissolve when they're dead
lowtekman5:  Me, I dont like for people to see my distress
lowtekman5:  So I hide it behind this big grin
lowtekman5:  nobody can see any of my tears
lowtekman5:  but if you ask the right questions and say the right words
lowtekman5:  maybe I'll let you in

©lowtekman5

June 22, 2008 Improv Contest Winners

 

Winner
Mermaid290 
Twisted Mirror
topic by Mundane1
 
 
 I have a hurricane in me,
 a gentle wind lives within.
 Stand firm, acerbic moon-tides
 rumble to mighty force, swells
 pitch and yaw, grumble and yawn.
 Steadfast, I sail beyond horizons,
 lucid mirages on endless seas.
 Fear driven deep in my bowels,
 raw intensity of pure, fragile hope.
 I watch, watch a shadow, a mirror
 image, dusk to dawn away but dare
 never to whisper the words.
 .
 A twisted mirror cannot reflect
 truth, locked in its timbre tock,
 manumit my inner demons
 to vast unknown. Intensity
 wells, crimson flames a fiery
 testament. Stain spreads indigo
 and inside a tsunami riles, expels
 scarlet resound, in my epiphany,
 I dare the silence giving voice
 to echo, we have come full circle.
  .
 I open the windows of my soul,
 liquid laughter peals 'cross plains
 to retreat beyond canyon walls,
 this darkness within me.
 Beneath a wide summer sky,
 I breathe light, in shades of blue
 my feet float, dance above cockle
 shells on golden sands as the storm
 leaves my shore, a twisted reflection,
 mirrored forevermore.
 
©Mermaid290

 

 Runner Up
 PoetcTryst
 Tangled Threads on the Backside of Lifes Tapestry
 topic by  Springspromise15

Here my father sliced a thread,
 Another one my mother read,
 Weaving a history of this day
 A picture of everything, say,
 .
 Headlines announce a topic true
 Websites say a topic through
 All life is one glorious bundle
 Making its way along a path. Trundle
 ,
 But yes dear reader, there is another side
 Not all is perfect and some things slide
 Let me tell you of the back side
 The slack side, of life's tapestry.
 .
 Every rug needs a constant grip
 On life or if one stepped on it, strife
 An undercurrent of fear and need awaits us all
 Here or there. Insurance failed. In the hall
 ,
 No I never knew her, And we have one glorious child
 Somehow our slipping and sliding resulted in God being mild
 There is an undertapestry I'm sure you've felt
 Working up you backside. In your innards. Chastity melt.
 
©PoetcTryst  

 

 

 Hosts Selection
 Minty Flesh
 The Grand Nile
 topic by PoetcTryst
 
god knows origami
 and folds time
 like blankets
 we sleep away eternity
 under suburban stars
 as the serpent tunnels beneath
 metropolitan moons
 light and dark flow tandem
 and flood fantastic
 on the papyrus shores
 leaving their creases
 
 for us to read in the morning
 like lines on the old man's face
 the earths scars tell of good and evil
 but only death unfolds the truth
 as a young man i plied my mind into a boat
 and now i wait to reach river's end

 ©mintyflesh

Ultimate Improv Slam

Sunday, June29,

Imapoettoo  -Vs- Budsilver !

Winner : Budsilver!

Thanks to all who came , read and voted! 
 For those of you who missed it- here are the writes!

 

 

Broken Chains

there's a broken doll
in the corner over there
toss'd with disdain
forgotten in a year or two
~
There's a broken plate
on the counter
by the sink
along with a familiar link
~
There's a broken chain
round my healing heart
I had to forget the future
return to the start
~
There's a broken soul
bleeding out and alone
like an abandon'd dog
with nowhere to call home

©Ima Poet Too:  ER Barker

 

 

 

  "Broken Chains"
 
  His pain stricken face still haunts me
  Bound to the ships wall by these chains
  Poor old man sold into his slavery
  Knowing that he would never be free
  His eyes spoke stories, his voice couldn't utter
  Of the whips he'd felt and lashes taken
  Sold by his family, alone and forsaken
  Scars where the lash tore his skin like butter
  Somehow in his pain, he still smiled at me
  Sharing his wisdom, he poured out his soul
  He told me he knew he was not in control
  The his father in heaven, would soon hear his plea
  I had no understanding, as if his prayer were in vain
  He spoke of a time, when he would walk by the sea
  These chains have been broken, they'll never hold me
  One day he'll wake up in paradise, forever free
 .
  ©BudSilver

 "Waterfalls in the sky"
 
   Another sleepless night, I can't seem to rest
   Faced with the choice of this impossible test
   Nothing seems to add up, at times I feel lost
   Knowing the price I've paid, immeasurable cost
   Dreams come too few, I have no answer why
   Washed by the waterfalls in my night sky
   Memories erased, replaced by another
   How people can turn their backs on their brother
   Lucid dreams come and I feel so alive
   Nightmares compete that force me to cry
   No solace, no peace, I retreat to that place
   Remembering that last time that I saw your face
   With one simple kiss, you unlocked this man
  Tormented and twisted, I don't understand
   I peered that night inside of your tears
   I saw you boundup and wounded, shrouded by fear
   Awake the next morning, you weren't by my side
   Like a piece of my dream had withered and died
   If this dream comes full circle with you by my side
   It will be worth all the anguish and tears that I've cried
   If everyou're lonely and you just don't know why
    Let's lay down next to waterfalls in the sky
  ©BudSilver:  

 

 

 

 Waterfalls in the Sky

 Waterfalls in the sky
 Cliffs of vapor
 Rise up above
 the raging storm river
 ~
 thunderous 
 white water
 racing to earthly destination
 ~
 Raining
 down through
 Waterfalls in the sky
 ~
 Driving flood waters
 before its inundating
 power

©Ima Poet Too:  ER Barker

June 7,2008 Improv Contest Winners

 

 


 Winner

 Metaphore05t

 “What is Love on Easy Street”
  topic by Outridera1 

 
staring at the window from a nostalgia of a winter lost

 invisible for eyes to see and memories to forget

 strolling along the alley in the night

 wondering, sometimes in winter, sometimes in summer

 in the streets to find a familiar face

 what is love on easy street

 when it's frequently givenwithout a conscience

 given with a price on its head

 a touch is unfamiliar

 a gesture unforgiven

 even a whisper is silence by the night

 what is love on easy street

 given freely and frequently

 yesterday wasn't that nostalgia

 something to forget among those nights of loving

 those nights where memories could not last

 what is love on easy street

 coming and going

 like the song goes: "I found love on a lonely highway

 "I found love on a two way street

 and lost it on a lonely highway."

 what is love on easy street?

 Passing by as if a memory forgotten,

 as if yesterday never happened

 what is love on easy street frequently given.

 

©Metaphore05t

 

 

 

 Runner Up

 Outridera1

 “Out with Supply and Demand”
 topic by Terzanelle

 What good would memories be

 And demand for the other sort

 I have to wonder

 If they're not tied together; somehow

 One begets the other

 Odd how it works in so many ways

 The left hand a promised land

 The right an awful fright

 A new love born today

 An old lost tonight

 So be it, I guess

 To hell with the rest

 Out with the law of

 Supply and demand.

 

© Outridera1

 

 

 

 

 Honorable Mention

 Terzanelle

 “Training Day”
 topic by Jbatlady28

I've got to get ready for the big day

Push all my fears aside...Out of the way

Focus on the task at hand these rhymes

Brush up on my word play I've got to make time

 

Face to face battling in the spot light

Training day neurons in my brain ignite

Up for the challenge ready to fight

Brace yourself with all of your might

 

I'm coming at you full force non stop

Fast and furious rhyme after rhyme I drop

Like poker your best bet would be to flop

I'm all over you like a floor is to mop

 

I'm not going to ease up until I reach the top

Battling against me your on the chopping block

2 more weeks my game face is on

I'm going to play off u like a pawn

 

©TERZANELLE

 

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Hosts Selection
Mundane1
“May the Best Man Win”
topic by Lowtekman5

 

 Anomaly, unusual, different,

 nice words for weird thanks

 I didn't see me in the race

 I did not fit within the ranks

 I watched the pain that relationships bring

 I was the safe one to talk to when it hurt

 chasing bad boys and that kind of thing

 was when the bad man treats her like dirt

 then she looks so puzzled and I was left to learn

 love and logic rarely meet

 you're lucky if you can keep what you earn

 you may cry when you suffer  defeat

 may the best man win well that's ok

 I am not among the listed knaves of love

 so enjoy this little victory today

 maybe my values may have a different prize

 I may just try to find the  love in your eyes.

©Mundane1 ~~just clyde!~~
©art: Robin Morris