Tag: two word challenge
member name: Marilyn is looking for whatever there is. N.
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February 19, 2007 06:34 AM EST --
Time flies when you're young,
with so much to see and do
before bedtime sneaks up on you.
Time stalls when you're a teen,
waiting for that license and a date
while feeling that you're doing . . .
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April 04, 2007 02:33 AM EDT --
Lady, people like you just about drive me crazy. You wanted a free ride from the beginning and I had you pegged from the first time I met you, at the food pantry where we volunteer. In you came, your . . .
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June 19, 2007 04:24 AM EDT --
Storm Clouds
I see the storm clouds in your eyes again,
telling me to watch it around you.
Knowing all the while that you're my friend,
and knowing that right now, I'm nobody.
When storm clouds . . .
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May 06, 2008 03:17 AM EDT --
I'll Survive!
I truly thought it would be an unexpected pleasure when we bumped into each other after all these years. You wanted a second chance and after all our secrets kept , I was . . .
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June 10, 2008 10:57 PM EDT --
Lightning Strike!
That was one heck of a lightning strike ,
as the band was playing in the bar.
It blew the lights, fans and singer's mike;
we sat in the dark not going far.
At . . .
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February 06, 2007 10:34 AM EST --
The cellar door was in the house, the kitchen to be exact. I was always afraid of it, as was my Mom. Dad would go down there off and on, usually drunk, as the stairs were rotted and steep. He'd fallen . . .
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February 11, 2007 09:50 AM EST --
Looking back to the year when I was only 15, it seemed that we were always surrounded by friends, family or classmates. Sometimes it felt so suffocating, I'd just want to run away with you, my love. . . .
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February 16, 2007 07:49 PM EST --
Critique is always welcomed - Marilyn
I could feel the tension in the air. Everytime my brother and his wife were in the same room together, it happened. We all held our collective breath, waiting . . .
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February 19, 2007 03:42 AM EST --
"She hasn't talked since it happened," Mom said to her best friend. Though it had been about a month, I still couldn't get things past my mouth and out of it.
They said I was molested. . . .
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February 23, 2007 06:34 PM EST --
Sublime Abandon
As the roomfull of people watched, holding their drinks and looking over the appetizer tables, she looked at them from under long-lashed sky blue eyes. She attracted attention and . . .
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April 06, 2007 06:58 PM EDT --
Two Word Challenge (Past)
Fifteen Minutes
For all of that long ago spring, I tried to get your attention. You had someone else, hardly paid me any mind. Older than me by a few years, I seemed to . . .
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April 29, 2007 04:53 AM EDT --
Something Borrowed
Rubber walls are my living space.
Don't know how I got here,
or how to get out.
. . .
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July 23, 2007 07:21 AM EDT --
Chipped Teacup - Two Word Challenge
Chipped Teacup
The chipped teacup sat in the middle of the top shelf of the china cabinet, with the chip turned for all to see. I looked at it, old, chipped and scratched, . . .
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August 28, 2007 10:05 PM EDT --
Romantic Scavenge
They'd been together so long,
without ever getting married, but
knowing that she was ready to leave,
planned a romantic scavenge.
That Saturday, he took her to their special place . . .
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June 10, 2008 11:03 PM EDT --
Shaved Head
I should've cooked, done housework.
But I didn't know how angry he'd get,
At first I thought he was being a jerk,
and that's all it would be.
He'd . . .
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June 12, 2008 03:05 PM EDT --
Why Not?
When I came home late last night;
she said, "Look, I can't live with you anymore."
I replied, "Why not?"
Shaking her head, she showed me the door. . . .
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June 13, 2008 10:57 PM EDT --
Babbling Idiot; Temper Tantrum (two word challenge)
She sounded like a babbling idiot, but look at him - he was throwing a temper tantrum right in front of the world! So, as usual, I just watched . . .
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May 09, 2007 03:51 AM EDT --
Ancient Vulnerability
She sat propped up in the chair in the nursing home where Shelly was a nurse. She never spoke, which made Shelly a little nervous around her. She couldn't seem to help it and . . .
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June 19, 2007 05:05 AM EDT --
Hot Meal
The line grew longer and we worked faster, trying to provide a hot meal to as many as we could. The soup kitchen was mobbed as it usually was and people were either pathetically grateful or afraid . . .
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June 23, 2007 04:52 AM EDT --
Clear Day
It was a clear day when I met you;
as clear as the blue of your eyes.
From that day on, we were together,
safe, happy and falling in love.
I had too few clear days with you,
before . . .
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