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I Challenge you: Writing Prompt 1 Humanity

13 Years Ago


































I have had this picture for almost a year now and I have been trying to connect with the inspiration that it gives to me.  So far my Muse has found other interests until now.  I challenge you and myself to write
a poem about this picture.  However it motivates you let your Muse run with it. 

Use the picture in your Poem or Short Story

Due Date is by April 30th   Good luck!
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13 Years Ago


Into the sky I fly,

falling high.

I wait,

 without hate,

 a renewed sedate.

To the world, unfurled

I find clean pearled.

Loving bliss,

 I miss your kiss.

Sinking into blinking

as I slowly start slinking.

Without remorse,

to sooth discourse,

I use force.

Screaming upward,

of feelings harbored,

is absurd.

I hope to remake,

this fatal mistake,

a swollen intake.

Blue upside,

hurt I hide

when dark at full tide.

Painful misuse

of this earthy truce,

has come loose.

At last,

our miserable past,

will no longer a dark shadow cast.
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13 Years Ago


Scarecrow
oh, you gorgeous little ghost story...
you can keep on screamin' for that rain
till your bones crack and the sky goes deaf;
ain't nothin' gonna wash you away.

ain't no one gonna let you live this down.

there's a damn good reason
you never see heartbreakers at funerals.
there's an even better one
behind the way your nightmare-black dress
looks more innocent than the girl it embraces.
while i suspect that you don't need me
to remind you of either,
i do wonder how long you'll take to notice
that this is the kind of thing
houses get haunted for.

and darling,
if the heavens should ever hint at mercy,
know that i'll be there watching
for the clouds to spit you back out
as soon as gravity starts feeling spiteful--

even if this wasteland is more than you deserve.
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13 Years Ago


The second you take your first breath is the second you are fighting to keep your last!

No fake god or son can change that, nature is the only religion, the only science!

You are either a lion or a gazelle!

Can be a leader and survivor, or a follower and victim!

When the time comes and your last breath is staring you in your face!

That's when your inner nature comes out!

I'm a f*****g lion so watch out gazelles!
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13 Years Ago


Looking up at the sky she waits for him to come the clouds say that he is on his way Death oh, he is near she can't wait for him to appear she prays she pleads the wind kicks up so now he is here to take her away foever to be gone only to be a memory in the picture that flashed as she took her last breathe and Death took her life away.
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13 Years Ago


Alone I stand It is my world I am free now do not worry I am true  I am the light in this storm
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13 Years Ago


I cannot for the life of me figure out how to post without having the poem be all one big paragraph. x_x  
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Darkness seeps into the soul Like the sun has given it's final war cry. Brother against brother, The rumble of war, Lost in the stillness of the icy chill. A flash of white, A screaming death, A victim of many, A last breath, And then it's gone. The sky splits like a sword to the heart, Pain as hard and as pointed as crystal daggers, Fall to the weather hardened ground. The heavens bleed grace.  ((Yeah mine too...I'm going to figure this out!))
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13 Years Ago


Misery
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She screamed at the sky,
"why, just tell me why"!
Her Husband is a Marine,
two, three, four tours.
Back and forth to Iraq.
         ---  ---
They were close once
even when he was 'in country'.
Rich Man's War was grinding,
seemingly never ending.
His hitch will be over soon.

Home at last, she's ready for their life,
but he is twelve time zones away.
He sees his buddies in boxes on the tarmac,
She sees the thousand yard stare.
Misery builds for both of them.

She goes to visit her folks for the day.
Alone, drinking, his memories rush in.
There's a Glock 9mm in the garage.  
Last thought is, "I've already been to hell".
BANG!
 











 
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13 Years Ago


I see there are a lot of good poems in this section.  Please know that at the bottom of the group page there is a section to post your work and then people can review it like your regular poetry since it links us to your poem on your page.  You can still post them here if you wish this is a freedom of speech group.  :)