Camp NaPo Campsite

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   Casanova
   Casanova · Aug 10, 2018

   Hey guys, here's the contest!
   
   Basically what I want you to do is look at your napo poems and look at the similarities and differences. Then, take lines from each and combined them together to make a singular poem.
   
   I'll give a few days for this, so let's saaaaay the 15th? Have fun and good luck!
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   metrophobia
   metrophobia · Aug 12, 2018

   okay - I've never written a poem like this, but here we go...
   
   
   

   Spoiler

   
   I can't remember catching fish going fishing
   and in the end,
   Fish apparently can't remember things. They forget.
   as the poison set in,
   on fire, to spite,
   where they should be strong
   
   
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   alliyah Creator
   alliyah · Aug 12, 2018

   This was fun!
   
   

   Spoiler

   
   i keep losing words
   i could tell you
   you told me that dandelions were sun drops
   might be whisky or the midnight rain
   but i had a hard time believing
   because for now, I am too afraid
   there may be a small chance
   drowning is death disguised as breathing
   and i'll tell you i love you in
   a word said at an imperfect
   point in time. Because it's
   empty bottles in a ditch, kicked away
   and write our names in ashes
   and wondering if silvery letters still cross your mind.
   you told me that you cared
   and you clutched my hand in your own.
   you told me that you cared
   and telling secrets with voices hushed so quiet
   that you and the stars are the only ones to hear
   and sometimes i wonder if
   i would have been better off if we never met
   but i don't think it'd even
   make a difference
   but sometimes
   i think it might.
   but i don't find that regretting the flame
   is much help when you're still trying to extinguish coals.
   
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   niteowl
   niteowl · Aug 13, 2018

   [spoiler]"okay let's do this".
   
   In spring, I lost my mind,
   from noble men with poisoned words.
   Do you not sculpt with perfect hands?
   
   i was lost most of that summer,
   but at least when you were there,
   we could be lost together.
   
   On many things we disagreed,
   discomfort highlighting
   the gaps between us.
   Like graham crackers we were broken apart,
   
   and my desire to kiss you
   was stronger than nicotine.
   but honestly I'm just too lazy
   to break the barriers of friendship.
   
   and even when my brain collapsed,
   campfire nights are lodged in my heart.
   Though that summer was long ago,
   forgetting is the hardest part.
   [/spoiler

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