Little Poems - Haiku - Tanka - Etc

Prompt: I have never seen anything like it.
Verse Form:Limerick  
What rhymes with "like it"?

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25 words of social content

12 days after Kincaid Fires began and from which approximately 78,000 acres burned, 174 homes lost and over 150,000 people evacuated from their homes for several days because of wind and fire threats. (I was one of those.) High winds and dry conditions escalated the fire. I came home to find a huge redwood tree from my neighbors' property had split in the high winds and fell on my frontage pasture gate and about 100 feet of fence. Luckily the power had already been turned off by the power company because the tree also downed power lines and if the power had been on, the dry grass of the pasture would have gone up in flames and most probably my home with it.

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prompt:soliloquy

My home is under mandatory evacuation. i have left my home and have set up residence in my office which is out of the mandatory zone but has no power. granddaughter is with me. We brought provions with us and she is sleeping on a cot while i am on the office couch with my cat. Found a few candles in my office holiday decorations. we are doing fine here. i can’t sleep so i’m posting on my iPad which is getting low.

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Prompt: Bandersnatch
For Oct 26 24 SYLLABLE CONTEST (no longer active)

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24 syllables
3 Lines
Prompt: eschew
For Oct 21

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24 syllables - sort of depends on how you say parliament and European - I used 3 syllables each
Prompt: febrile - feverish

For: 24 SYLLABLE CONTEST (no longer active)

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Earth's Red

crystalline lattice
volcanic quartz
cinnabar
powdered mineral
scarlet pigmant
vermillion
         ~~jvg

24 syllables
Verse Form: catalogue or list poem
6 Lines
Prompt: vermillion
For Oct 18 24 SYLLABLE CONTEST (no longer active)

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Dead Silence

Silent and deadly
the Water Moccasin's
wedge-shaped head
raised in mock
surprise to survey
for prey.
                    ~~Judi Van Gorder

24 syllables
6 Lines
Prompt: moccasin

For: 10-17-19 24 SYLLABLE CONTEST (no longer active)

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4 Lines
Verse Form: Imayo  
*shosagoto are the dance pieces of the kabuki theater
*shamisen is a traditional 3 stringed, long-necked instrument similar to a lute
*hyoshigi are wooden blocks slapped together to make a dramatic cracking sound, a traditional, signature sound of the kabuki.

Disclaimer, I wrote this poem as an example of the Imayo for the contestants in Round 58. As a judge, I can't enter the poem into the competition.

For Round 58 Oriental Poetry Contest (no longer active)

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24 syllables
4 Lines
Prompt: patina
For 24 SYLLABLE CONTEST (no longer active)

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