1. I am the misplaced bolt of lightning from a black cloud in broad daylight on a nice day
2. that rains on the textbook that lies boldly open with ink characters sprawled across the page in gibberish.
3. The scent of rain stinges the raw air, while the wind rushes past, whipping at your cheeks on a damp morning.
4. Wool is warm and blocks out the noise, and sounds like a baby crying.
5. Gabe in L.A. grabs attention in his little stroller, eyes shut, mouth wide open, bawling.
6. But no, the scent of rain, it fills your lungs, and you gasp at the air like a fish out of water. Parang tao'ng may hika, na gustong gusto ang ulan. [Like a person with asthma who really likes the rain.]
7. Then you choke, gag, and decide to stay inside...you can't breathe.
Suns come out before the rain, like a zillion of them.
8. Frozen perfume extinguishes both, creating a sucking wormhole
9. that vacuums light into darkness and swallows all life,
10. "So which is larger?"
11. The pointless carpets of wind
12. meticulously swim circles in my jacket.
13. Thy fails and breaks the law.
14. Charlee writes her frozen fingers off - quick, find some way to defrost them!
15. Someday, books will become alive, words will jump off pages, and surround your head. Lines of silver text will fly around you in swirls of adjectives, and you will see them.
16. Frozen cotton fluffs
17. paper into blue sky needles.
18. Azul na larawan pinipintura ng bituin. [Blue images are painted by the stars.]
19. Tears play the piano in attempts to sound waterproof music.
20. Charged static flashes from the stratosphere in mid-June striking mad literature diagnosed with rabies.
Author notes
Eh. This is certainly not stuck in a rut writing.
A contest entry
- Is your Writing in a Wrut? by just mercedes.
1700 points, ended December 17, 2008, 22 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Random eh?
Comments
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hey this is really good!
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Thanks. I'm kinda into that random stuff now...
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No, that's no rut! This poem took me on a wild ride through a sky of pages and words. I loved 'waterproof music' especially. Thank you for this great entry.
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Lol, well said

Thanks for your comment!
-->pia♫♪
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