Challenge Yourself
By Fox-Trot-9
Introduction
Poetry writing challenges. Yep, that's what this particular collection is about. "Why am I interested in taking poetry writing challenges?" you might ask. Well, it's for a couple of reasons, really. Part of it is that I wanna show people my poetic writing skills. Another part is that I just need something to get my brain working again, so I can stay poetically sharp, if you know what I mean. But really, I wanna challenge myself, so I can grow as a poet. Even if I don't win any challenges at all, I'd rather take them and lose them than never attempt them at all.
—Words from Foxy-Tsu ( ^_^ )
Table of Contents
1. To Nightrider187 (Free Verse)
2. (1) Endless Night (Sonnet)
3. (2) The Struggle (Sonnet)
4. (3) Repentance (Sonnet)
5. Holding On (Free Verse)
6. Writer's Block (Sestina)
7. Blue Christmas (Quatrains)
8. Weirdos, Unite! (Acrostic / Quatrains)
9. Love's True Self (Sonnet)
10. Give Up Giving Up (Free Verse)
11. To Shine (Blank Verse / Quatrains)
12. Gluttony (Blank Verse)
13. Criticism (Nove Otto)
14. Contempt (Sonnet)
15. On Sleeping Johnny Zwei (Sonnets)
16. Daniella and Serea (Sonnet)
17. On The Hobbit (Ballad)
18. Suffering Poet (Couplets)
19. No Use Trying (Ballad)
20. Melancholy (Acrostic)
21. Trimming the Bushes (Ballad)
22. Autumn in the Desert (Blank Verse)
23. Poet's Declaration (Sonnet)
24. Locus of Control (Ballad)
25. Parentally Bullied (Sonnets)
26. Twilight Welcome (Haiku)
27. Lover & Mistress (Dialogue)
28. The Final Cut (Ballad)
29. The Artist's Creed (Sonnet)
30. This Rat-Wheel Life (Nove Otto)
31. Confession (Ballad)
32. Real Poetry (Free Verse)
33. Fuck the Holidays (Free Verse)
34. Socratic Wisdom (Quatrains)
35. Two Words (Quatrains / Sestet)
36. Prison House (Sestets)
37. The Lazy Creed (Doggeral)
38. No Hope (Sonnet)
39. Thankful? (Free Verse)
40. Party's Over (Free Verse)
41. Phantom Brothers (Nove Otto)
42. Mother to Daughter (Couplets w/ Refrain)
43. Time Out (Envelope Rhyme)
44. Exhaustion (Blank Verse)
45. Words of God and Love (Sonnet)
46. End of the Tunnel (Ballad)
47. A Ghost's Caress (Elegy)
48. Wife's Complaint (Sonnet)
49. Hopeless Ruminations (Quatrains / Monorhyme)
50. Unwell (Double Couplets)
51. A Prayer for America (Free Verse)
52. Monkey in the Dark (Tercets / Quatrain)
53. Abduction Deception (Free Verse)
54. Toilet Thoughts (Free Verse)
55. Blank Pages (Free Verse)
56. Parting (Ballad)
57. Goodbye Writing Time (Ballad)
58. Sleepless Night (Sonnet)
59. Witness (Dizain)
60. What Is Burnout? (Free Verse)
61. Brief Retrospection (Free Verse)
62. For the Fallen: 2020 (Quatrains)
63. Circumstances (Quatrain)
64. Bloody Murder (Decastich)
65. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Quatrain)
66. Mind on Water / Beer (Sestet)
67. Drink Until Dawn (Quatrains)
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(To be continued...)
A/N: Hope you enjoy... ( ^_^ )
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Challenge Yourself
PoetryGenres: Poetry. Summary: This latest poetry collection will chronicle whatever poetry contest or poetry writing challenge or inspirational moment I undertake. I need to get back into the poetic disposition, and this collection will help me do that...
