Prose Challenge of the Week #23: Write a haiku about deceit. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge

DMYope

320 reads

Lies

Little white seeds grow

into spectacular trees

They are for the birds

17

3

Challenge

Prose Challenge of the Week #23: Write a haiku about deceit. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge

EmmaRose13

63 reads

Denial

I say I'm okay,

because with repetition,

I might believe it.

5

0

Vyxyn

105 reads

New word

Invented a new word:

Dumbpidity,

for those times when stupidity just isn't strong enough for the situation.

6

1

0

Challenge

Prose Challenge of the Week #23: Write a haiku about deceit. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge

CTorSof

121 reads

Fine

She swore she's fine and

won't do it again but it's

too hot for long sleeves.

6

1

0

Challenge

Your favorite quote or something you want people to quote you by.

dMarie

153 reads

I Hear the Music

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

Friedrich Nietzsche

7

0

4

Challenge

Prose Challenge of the Week #23: Write a haiku about deceit. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge

ahpoems

115 reads

Web of Lies

I was a spider

And I, foolish arachnid

Was caught in deceit.

7

1

0

Challenge

Write an entire story in only six words.

unspecific

259 reads

sky boy

We kissed once

Haven't talked since

25

5

1

Fauxhero in Poetry & Free Verse

241 reads

Empty frames

I remember her throat like a vase

Her words, like a bouquet

But with each flower out of place

She'd tell me she loves me

She always did

When she got that way

There was a perfume in that room

Like hyacinth

As wild as our night

We could've called it proof

That words wilt and die

And it's strange, what remains

We carried it home on our skin

And we hang empty frames

To remind us to forget

25

9

24

Challenge

Prose Challenge of the Week #21 in partnership with The Micropoetry Society. Use the following word to create a piece of micropoetry: “Lines.” The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100, the runner-up will receive $25. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #poetheme and #micropoetry.

Lynn

344 reads

but baby, we're just lines and fragments hoping to connect; parallel lines that people forget.  

one life leads to the next.

we don't live; just die. this is death.

32

6

5

unspecific

309 reads

falling in love with a jaywalker

I

His shoulder blades are broken glass protruding like some foreign shrapnel and it is all I can do not to pluck them from his spine like petals from a buttercup.

II

The sun catches his coffee eyes like flash paper yet I am the one going up in flames and his cheeks are freckled with ashes and my neck is bruised by the passion of his parted lips.

21

4

2