October 2024 Contest and Challenge  Winners

Congratulations to all our contest Winners

The Winner of the 10/24 Horror Story

TERRORS OF THE YOUNG.

By: Alex Tanner

In darkness he lies
Blankets up to his chin,
Eyes stare into blackness
Would the monsters rush in?

Congratulations to this week’s winner   Headless Two Face Meridian

Shadows that haunt my thoughts

Juggling the jugular of jargon from the golden jar gone per sip, intentioned gorged by percipitation,
I stroll through verbal synergies for veracity sived through similies assimilated in receding patience,

Congratulations to this week’s winner  Sen99

Disambiguation

When sinking in the mire
Water muddy with confusion
Meaning disappears into a black swamp
Redundant words drown in brain fog
Uncertain ground too soft to stand on

When you struggle with meaning
Look at a loved one’s face
Study their facial muscles
Lips pursed, the nose upturned
The eyes have it,
The smile knows it.

Congratulations to This week’s winner Trail

DRIFTING CLOUDS

The sun rises a little earlier each day
And each day is brighter than the last
On evenings I walk out to see the sunset
And I walk back with a rested soul

I've tried to be more sincere with myself
To hold my own hand
As I walk through the darkness
To sing to myself once in a while
So that I can hear a voice
Of someone who loves me

This Week’s winner is  Twizzle48

WHISPERING WOODS

WHISPERING WOODS

Perhaps the rustling leaves are telling the tree’s tale
Whispering, such that only those listening may hear
Only when it is in tune, may the message be clear
Yet unless easily understood, it will be of little avail

September 2024 Contest Winners

Congratulations to all our contest winners

The Winner of the What is Life? Is Alex Tanner

Life Is What You Are

There's a time to go back to live life again,
Let the boy who was fearless be reborn just the same;
Command the old man who grumbles and moans
Of the aches and the pains that torment his old bones.

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   This Week’s winner is Jokerface82

THE WRATHFUL SEA

Her salted bludgeoning maw
swallowed vessels and galleys
with its green saline gullet of
ulcers
barnacles, and a throat full of oily
spots of acne sticky limpets

Treasures guarded by a circle
of sharks in an ocean restaurant
pinching crabs,
and swaying seaweed keeping naval
secrets.