Challenge
Poetry contest. Twenty word minimum. First place will be decided based on the poem, of course, though the number of comments posted by others will be factored in (critiques or praise, no one word or three word quickies) and those who comment should "like" it to keep the judges looking for updated reads. Write a poem about anything. Aim for the gut. Winner gets $100.
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Pomegranate Rain
Pomegranate storms rage in shadowed past;
Sheets tossed and stained in reddest desire.
Two pomegranate seeds planted deeply,
Between hungry lips, there for the taking.
A sweetened voice whispers from the darkness
Breaking each strand of life my heart still has.
A sweetened voice crying from deepest depths
Of a passion long since buried and done.
Pomegranate rain falls from moisten lips,
Never to be tasted that way again.
A pomegranate dream escapes my mind,
Memory to haunt me to my last days.
A picture frayed in black and faded white
A final memory tossed to the flames.
A picture stained, pomegranate crimson
The one I can’t lose, as the fire blazes.