Prose Challenge of the Week #19: In no more than 50 words, write about guilt. 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

482 reads

The Guiltress

On nights like these

She tells me she's lonely

She puts her gold cross

In her nightstand drawer

And turns the photos to the wall

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Prose Challenge of the Week #19: In no more than 50 words, write about guilt. 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

A

668 reads

Guilt is to sadness what jealousy is to anger, blue is to red, cold to hot. Guilt arises from acknowledging your failure to act in a way you could and should have.

Jealousy is projected guilt.

The wind of acceptance moves the clouds of guilt, returning the sun of joy.

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Prose Challenge of the Week #19: In no more than 50 words, write about guilt. 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

HauntedEquinox

630 reads

Attribution

Inundated with choices,

All of them my vices.

Drowning out obstreperous voices,

You became an arbitrator, leaving me to make sacrifices.

Written in the way you stare me down,

Was the culpability pressed into my heart.

Senseless, naive; wrecking the lovely way I was perceived.

Cultivated to be your fault.

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Prose Challenge of the Week #19: In no more than 50 words, write about guilt. 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

DaveK

341 reads

Nurse Me Back to Health

I've licked the tit of guilt

Past the point of recovery,

No nourishment within

the milk of regret,

tied rocks to the noose

to show karma

I'm trying to chew the wrongs

and digest my sins but

I'm too small to sink teeth

into the blood crystals

of my victims.

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Prose Challenge of the Week #19: In no more than 50 words, write about guilt. 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

LillyZ

376 reads

Guilty Vomit

Tapeworms weave their way

wrapping around organs

suffocating the blood flow,

maggots begin to grow

eating away on dead flesh,

feeling them bite and squirm

inside your guilty gut

of disgrace, disgust, deceitful secrets

that linger night and day,

festering and eroding away

until the disease reaches the heart ...

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Prose Challenge of the Week #19: In no more than 50 words, write about guilt. 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

B27321

1.8k reads

Guilt

you Say

Is All

That Remains

At

the End

Of

the Day

Of

a Life

Of Refrain

So

I Say

Don’t

Let It

Gild

your Throne

Roll

the Bones

Come

What May

Live

To Day

#B27321

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Prose Challenge of the Week #19: In no more than 50 words, write about guilt. 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

Gemma

342 reads

For Now, Just Let Me Say It Again

As the words pass my lips, I feel as guilty as I do exhilarated

You were never supposed to say you loved me

I was never supposed to say it back

But here we are, your hands in my hands

Along with your heart

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Prose Challenge of the Week #19: In no more than 50 words, write about guilt. 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

sandflea68

254 reads

Guilt Not Traveled

I spread my guilt like butter on your toast

melting into golden squares of passion

against my skin in little liquid sips of ardor

rich canvas of fractured colors stroking silk.

Guilt dissipates as I inhale your soul

lingering remorse drips off my back.

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Prose Challenge of the Week #19: In no more than 50 words, write about guilt. 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

BenCoulter

384 reads

There be Guilt at The Summit of The Sober Morrow

Eyelashes singe from grilling behind.

Bones ache, joints seized, unholy shrine.

Mouth arid akin to dust.

Raucous skull akin to rust.

Was it worth it?

Cloudy lucidity, hazy memories of words said.

Raising Diablo with sultry potions of dead.

Flashes of dancing... but I don't tread!

The horror, the dread...

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Prose Challenge of the Week #19: In no more than 50 words, write about guilt. 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

SunceraySalazar

184 reads

Conscience

Voice with no vessel, who are you!

That you judge me!

Cease you're ranting!

Leave me be in peace!

You tear upon my soul!

Slicing away at my sanity!

I curse you!

As I curse me!

I wish I could undo what I have done!

Now the daemon has won!

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