Weekly Challenges

Beautiful
Deadline
Take inspiration from Kurt Vonnegut’s famous “Slaughterhouse-Five” line for a short story or poem: “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.” ["Sunset" by happy_the_dog, YWP]
Weekly Challenges
Deadline
Take inspiration from Kurt Vonnegut’s famous “Slaughterhouse-Five” line for a short story or poem: “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.” ["Sunset" by happy_the_dog, YWP]
It never happened
that everything was beautiful and nothing hurt
but if it did it would have been
lying in the grass
the kind that surrounds you like the ocean
and flows like a river
The deep, unconscious current guards
my hopeless human figure from
the continuous plume of silence
echoing below my floating forearms.
my pure body is tossed in a
Her name was Violet,
but she always wore yellow.
I spied her from across the room as I hesitated in the sun-framed doorway, and she was beautiful.