The Acrostic Poetry Challenge: Airports
Created | Updated Apr 25, 2010
The Acrostic Poem has been a long-standing challenge, mainly between B'Elana and PedanticBarSteward. However, we've decided to open up the idea to anyone who would like to take part, as a regular poetry challenge.
The word chosen each time is the Telegram Game's current word, so if you join in or subscribe to the telegram game you'll know as soon as it's announced. When you've completed your poem, submit it by posting to a new thread below, and we'll put the best of them together in the next issue.
Have fun!
This Issue : Airports
Dmitri Gheorgheni
All we want to do is get out of here.
Inside the terminal, chaos
Rare glimpses out the window show
Planes sitting idle, impatient.
Only the experts know for sure:
RAF, do you mean it?
Tell us the volcano is quiet now
So we can all go home.
PedanticBarSteward
As you sit there, waiting for your flight,
In the hope that you won't be there all night,
Refilling you glass at the faceless bar,
Pretending it's normal – the way that you are.
Observing the throng, as if in a trance,
Rehearsing as though it's some sort of romance,
Talking to no one but listening to all,
Silently waiting your final gate call.
Various Contributors
