Challenge
Challenge of the Month III: January
New beginnings, a fresh start. A new chapter in an old story, or a new story altogether. Write about the start of something new. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners.
For the Poet.
Not a lament
not this one
there will be no thoughts here
of callous lovers
lonely evenings
or sterile tears over someone’s parting.
No mention here
of empty promises
dreary liaisons
mournful trysts.
Rather I choose
that these lines celebrate my sense of self
intact
despite these things
my eagerness to give again
and to hell with the odds.
Let this one
revel in my resilience
my optimism
as I enter the breach once more
with expectations undiminished
awaiting surprises
fully expecting that love will one day
be all it can
and should be.
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