Habitat Optional

Reposted colab with some of the heavy hitters...

Central Asylum
October 12, 2006 / 5:04 pm

What is home?
Four walls, doors, windows?
Love, acceptance, ease?
Smiles at the end of the day,
Laughs in between commercials,
Talks in morning light?
Is home something that comes
With time, does it come with love?
Is it a requirement to happiness
Or just an added bonus?
Is home synonymous with permanency?
Is there one and only one for
Each person? Is it an ideal?
What is home?



This is Ivy's answer to the question:
October 13, 2006 / 4:00 am

Home is yer heart.
The beating beast synched up
with yer soul,
the glowing piece.
It's the cave that we crawl into
to shied from the worlds tradgedy
it's gods fingers and buddahs belly,
it's waking up inlove with yer own
potential,
your realistic reality
and the breathing bodys possibility.
It's finding Peace in the turmoil
fashioning the structure into walls
to warm others still searching
and wandering the cold roads



Jeff Clineff's answer:
October 13, 2006 / 3:56 pm

Home is where your heart is
But not the physical thump thump.
That can be found in a cramped elevator,
a lonely hospital bed
an empty street.
Home is love
Joy
Happiness.
Home is sadness
Despair
Loneliness.
Home is alone
And home is with others.
Home is
Attitude
Feelings
Desires
Home comes from within
Don�t look out to others to make it for you
Look inside yourself to make it for them.



Mark's (Ghostwriter) Take:
October 15, 29006 / 2:55 am

Home is not a place on a map.
It's not that lamp in the corner
that came from grandma's.

Or the picture on the wall.
It doesn't matter you were born
and will die in the same house.

Home is the one place
where the world has a chance
to be right. With you.

Whatever it is you seek.
Wherever life takes you.
Whoever you meet.
Home will always be
where your heart is.



Juliette Says:
October 15, 2006 / 8:53 am

Home is a place you're sucked into and frozen like ice until someone takes mercy on you and cuts you out. The walls fall in around you because they are alive and they are sucking the life from you. Make no mistake, they want blood. Home is a pyhsical manifestation of hell. Four walls and the devil.

Real home is where you find it. Arms that hug you and mean it, words that kiss you and take you away. Friends.



Ilene's Answer:
October 15, 2006 / 10:21 am

Home is where
I keep
my s**t
Together



Simon's Go At It:
October 15, 2006 / 2:05 pm

impenetrable paper walls
inked
with passionate love and longing
secluding
awkwardness and secret thoughts.




Jason Says:
October 15, 2006 / 9:23 pm

Home.
It's that kiss of intimacy
shared over a hot cocoa
during a storm,
the finale
to a song
which gives precedence
to the couch we sit on.

Do I need to sing this to you?

Just lay back, relax, cuddle me;
tell me that what I say
is real to you.

Tell me I am not deluded
when I ask for secrets to share
between us,
when I
fall
and
fail
to
pick
myself
up.

Someone will be there, hopefully you,
to pour my milk
as I would do for you.




Lyttleton's Answer:
October 15, 2006 / 11:02 pm

I have no home.



Kasia Says:
October 15, 2006 / 8:10 pm

Home is the flush of cold on winter cheeks
The soft touch of miniature fingers on temperate skin
Home is laughter in a rain storm
The scent of freshly cut grass
Popcorn
Three little girls running through the halls
The flash of a camera
Home is walks through a forest in autumn looking for the perfect leaf
Hot sand between toes in summer
Honeysuckle climbing along the wall
Orchids at the window
A warm soft blanket
Home is the soft click, click of the keyboard
The gleam of the desk
The arch of my back
as I write these words

Home is�




V's Take On It:
October 18, 2006 / 4:16 am

i have yet to find my way home
but i'll know the doormat
if i see it



C Lee's Answer:
October 18, 2006 / 12:34 am

Home is an establishment?
Home is a social unit formed by a persons living together?
Home is a familiar or usual setting, a congenial environment?
Home is in harmony with the surroundings?

A destination
A memory
A feeling
A lie

Yet�
Home is a key on the laptop
A place you always begin
Only to escape from and start again

Reviews

[Raef C. Boylan]

Hey, it works really well together with the responses; a Q&A session. I like people experimenting with interactive pieces. Your imperfect rhyming works nicely "windows...commericals", "happiness...bonus" etc.
Well done to you, and all these cool people who reviewed poetically.

Thanks for re-posting this. I enjoyed reading it.