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Start/end date
2024-09-01T12:00:00 - 2024-09-07T12:00:00
Date Due: September 7th, 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
Echoes
By Trail
Once there was a man
Who wrote beautiful music
He wrote the music because he was sad
He was sad because he was all alone
But he was noticed for his music
He ended up being loved for it
And in being loved
He lost his sadness
And his music soon after
Winning entry
captain 2
9 months 3 weeks ago
awsome!
you said it perfectly. Success seems to kill the very thing that drove it.
I love poems like this - simple clear, and true - right to the point. It's not as easy as it looks.
Best,
captain
LilacsandLace
9 months 1 week ago
Oh goodness, isn't this the
Oh goodness, isn't this the fear of every mentally ill artist? When the depression or disorder drives the creativity, what do we become when we heal and recover? Do we keep it? Who are we when our life doesn't revolve around our sick brains? The optimism of recovering is immobilized by the fear of losing creativity. I have been there so many times. Well-written, and eloquently simple!
Leslie
8 months 3 weeks ago
Trail
you have such soothing eloquent words and I wonder how you are doing? John