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Start/end date
2024-07-28T12:00:00 - 2024-08-03T12:00:00
Date Due: August 3rd, at 12 Noon Eastern Time
Contest Guidelines: 40 lines or less and written in any form of poetry, and one poem per member.
Prize: One month Premium, Recognition on your profile and published in our anthology.
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Winning Poem
Moth to a Flame
By Sen99
She is like a naked flame starved of oxygen.
White hot but almost exhausted,
Weary like a candle at the end of its life.
I’m a blind, deranged moth
Excited to be flying towards her cold fire,
Eager to be engulfed by her,
Hypnotized and confused by one last flicker of light.
A moth has no mouth
Still, I wanted to lick her flame,
One last taste of her tongue,
A final kiss before extinction.
Just before I reached her, she blew out,
Extinguished by a winter wind
Her soot and ashes
Were just dead memories of a failed love.
Winning entry