It’s time for Chelsea Owens weekly poetry challenge. If you want to have a go pop over Chelsea Owens great site by 8:00 a.m. MST next Friday (August 8) to submit a poem. This week the challenge is.
- Our Topic is Anything. You choose.
The catch? Whatever subject you select has to be way too flowery and/or descriptive. Adjectives and adverbs are your new best friends, closely followed by metaphor, simile, hyperbole, synecdoche, and personification.
The other catch? The type of poem is free verse. - Length? For the judge’s time and sanity, keep things under 250 words.
- For the first time, you may NOT Rhyme! What could be more poetic than free verse? Most people think that’s true and who are we to add rhyme to their meter?
- As always, make it terrible. Poets who take themselves way too seriously must applaud your efforts, worried to be the first to point out the emperor has no prose.
- Although a bawdy free verse poem is likely to exist somewhere, most stay around PGor cleaner; you can as well.
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In our darkest times you bring unbroken sunshine
With a bouquet unrivalled amongst the finest wine
Like a fragrant flower sat below the finest red pine
How can something so small be so life enriching
Your smell, your taste so utterly bewitching
Just one drop is so completely uplifting
You shine out on our world like the stars of the southern cross
You are as wondrous and spectacular as the wandering albatross
You paint the world with a sparking diamond jewel embossed gloss
In the kitchen you are the unrivalled boss
Riding across the sky like the ancient god Helios
You are our light oh Great Tabasco Sauce
****come on you try to find something that rhymes and fits with sauce
All hail tobacco sauce! Loved it 🙂 Great terrible poem 🙂
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Thank you Robyn
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Ditto what Robyn said. This looks like fun!
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It is a laugh.
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Brilliant! Can’t stop laughing.
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That makes me happy.
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😂😂😂
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🙏
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Haha! Love it 😍
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Thank yiu
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Nothing rhymes with sauce of course.
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Missed that one…..
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I have never heard someone describe Tabasco with such passion and in such romantic terms!
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Funny thing is that I don’t particularly like the stuff.
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ha ha – even better!
i don’t dislike it as such…but very small doses for me.
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I suppose when I go shopping today may have to purchase a small bottle. Seems fitting.
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Rofl. Excellent. I own 2 kinds of Tabasco, red and green and we, from Louisiana, count it heresy not ot have this with Gumbo(Thick gravy base stew.)
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It’s more Worcester Sauce here.
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Never could pronounce that word but do love that sauce.
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Yep it’s a funny little word
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Nice! I forgot…. better get to it.
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Looking forward to yours
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It’s done 🤦♀️
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It’s brilliant
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🤪😉
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🙏
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Toss the sauce…
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Oh yes.
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SO BAD it makes my head hurt! Or … perhaps my head hurts because I whacked myself upside the head a while ago …
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I’m like that every time I hear the word Boris- just want to head butt the wall.
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A truly terrible poem… one for the Annals!
In reading it i am brought to mind of that fabulous beatnik poet of the 60’s – Marty Feldman:
(Never could stand tobasco either!) 😉
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I liked Marty. So ahead of the curve.
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Indeed! A sad loss. 😦
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Still brilliant, still ahead of the curve – not many can say that.
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Just you, me and Marty at last count! 😉
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Not sure Marty would be that appreciative of being n a list with me.
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What? Because you’re from Yorkshire??
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Could be
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🤔
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🙏
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So utterly OTT – of course
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Don’t tell anyone but I’m not that keen on the stuff.
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Even more suitably terrible
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Thank you sir
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I really liked the beginning. You are growing every week with your poems. Nice job lol
And I mean it I really liked the beginning part of it. Deep and meloncholy (I can’t spell this word to save my life) Please keep writing poems regardless of how horrid you think that they are. 🙂
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Thank you that’s so kind. I rather talked myself into that poem as I said I would include that sauce whatever the poem subject was.
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I enjoyed. Please keep it it and maybe try a Word of the Day or just a piece. You have talent.
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That’s so kind of you. Going give me a word for next weeks poem then.
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Well damn now I have to thino and find a good word for you. Let me mull this over for a bit
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🙏
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Man, that Chelsea Owens sounds like a brilliant person. Almost as brilliant as the poet that wrote this one.
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She sure does. I keep meaning to ask if she or he is pregnant. xxx
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Sauce (of Course)… I thought this challenge was to not Rhyme, but it was a great poem dedicated to Tobasco sauce, nevertheless. 😉
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I think it has to rhyme a bit. Maybe that’s were I going wrong.
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LMAO! Well I didn’t see that one coming!
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Thank you. Finished the Nights Tooth it’s brilliant. Really enjoyed it. You must be so pleased with it.
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Thank you so much! I’m pretty happy with it, thanks. 🙂 Trying to work out my current WIPs backstory and getting all flummoxed, but I’m hopeful to work it out
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Don’t forget to give yourself some time to breathe and live. You have so much on your plate.
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I will if you will xxxxx
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That’s a deal then. xxx
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