The Gladiator Workshop

The Gladiator Workshop

A place for wordsmith combatants to test their mettle. Will you be the next champion?

  • 18 forum topics
  • 51 wall posts
  • Created Fri Feb 05, 2016 3:06 am

← Back to Forum

CYOT Round 2: Aley vs Ellstar

3 posts in this topic.

  1. I don't know if we're supposed to share the prompt or not...; I'm going to go with no.

    Title: you can have it

    Spoiler
    gently kissing your ears
    like soft felt against your feet
    fuzzy and warm

    cuddling up to you
    just a fragile little beat
    puffing over your senses

    whisper your sweet nothings
    and i'll melt into your strong arms
    eternally yours
  2. Ah, I had a short story for this but I couldn't finish it in time due to sudden quizzes. Ah well. Choppy poetry it is.

    Title: Samson & Delilah

    Spoiler


    The scissors are bloody
    With strands of black and red
    A pair of witnesses
    and a pair of murderers.

    I recall her eyes, like feathers
    flooding the pillows below us
    like dirt would flood over
    a closed casket.

    No god watched over us
    behind those blinders,
    the Bible couldn't recall
    the space between heaven and hell

    like I couldn't remember,
    the gap between her thighs.

    But I remember the scissors.

    I remember our end.

    She whispered to me, the way
    God might have, in my youth,
    "You might marry your friends,
    but you'll always love your enemies."

    Once again, I didn't listen.
  3. Votes to Ellstar! Bravo!


Remember when dad's shoulders were the highest place on earth and your mom was your hero? Race issues were about who ran the fastest, war was only a car game. The most pain you felt was when you skinned your knees, and good byes only meant tomorrow? And we couldn't wait to grow up.
— Unknown