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Daily Challenges: A new idea to explore and create each day. Use sound and photos, too!

Share your best writing -- a story, a poem, a sudden spark of observation or insight or creativity. Anything. Sound. Image. Words.

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Jun 14

poem 2 comments challenge: General

LunaMoonBox

O Lady of the Sea

It's dark and cold. Like the deepest emotion emitting from your lifeless body
The roaring waves crash on the forbidden horizon, with every beat and drum like the endless sound of thunder
Light can't reach the bottom as it pierces through watery graves.

The sun sinks down into the deep...and slowly slips into a dark slumber.
Out of all the things the sea finds floating in the water,
She hears screams that echo through the blasting night.

They tried to hide her...
They tried to seduce her...
They tried to own her...
They wanted to drown her...

The boat was full of despair and lust for this girl.
But they knew she was everything they could never have.
The brick was tightly attached to her delicate ankle as the noose was pulling her down.
Her wrists swelled at the itchy rope digging in her pale skin.
Her blushed cheeks puffy with tears and abuse.

Nothing could save her now.

Jun 13

poem 0 comments challenge: General

CutieAnimals101

Power Out

Boom!
Crackle!
Pop!
That’s the lighting taking over the night,
Giving the dog quite a fright.

Chatter,
Chatter,
Bark,
Meow,
Clatter,
On and on the noises go,
That is, until the electricity blows.

Hide n’ seek,
Indoor camp,
And scary stories,
Taking over the lightning’s glory.

Beep,
Beep,
Beep,
What could that be?
That’s the AC,
The dog barks whippee!

Chatter,
Chatter,
Bark,
Meow,
Clatter,
On and on the noises go,
After checking the news channel show!

Jun 06

visual 0 comments challenge: General

angelaweasley

Again & Again

Jun 04

poem 3 comments challenge: General

haileychase

If I Die In A School Shooting

If I die in a school shooting,
politicize my death.
Fight for our safety,
turn my funeral into a protest.

If I die in a school shooting,
I will never play sports again.
My goals, my hopes, my dreams,
will all come to an end.

If I die in a school shooting,
battle until students and teachers are safe.
Don't let my death become a statistic,
help kids go to school unafraid.

If I die in a school shooting,
I will never become a doctor.
I will never graduate high school,
and my parents will no longer have a daughter.

If I die in a school shooting,
my little brother will become an only child.
Fight for all the lost lives,
and make change be required.

If I die in a school shooting,
turn my ashes into a book.
And write the story
of how my life should have looked.

If I die in a school shooting,
deliver my heart to the NRA

Jun 02

poem 2 comments challenge: General

Jasmine

Hope-Giver

Look at the stars, look at how they outshine you.

At the place where the stars kiss the ocean I’ll meet you

In that cramped space between layers of lashes and chaos.

We all try to win at our own loss…

If I’m meant to be planning your destiny, who’s planning mine?

Seems to me the naysayer with no spine, yet he finds

No purpose has the piper but to play

So let him blow wind between his teeth, while we say;

Fathom me as constellations.

Create a symphony of your thoughts of me-

Is that all that will be left of me?

Most of us don’t know where we’re headed,

So mumble to me the way of yours,

Until the tips of my ears are reddened

The musician will play in the background of our dreams

Of summer days spend hanging from our wings

When all I’d want to do was to count your imperfections

Jun 01

poem 0 comments challenge: General

alexmistkowski

The Cat

It is so soon old friend
That you have met the end
It seems like only yesterday
Was the first time I saw you play
Rolling around the floor
Days with you were never a bore
Playing till bed
Then you'd curl up by my head
Protecting me form the monsters
We were just happy Vermonters
Living out in the sticks
Away from the houses of bricks
The ones so close
You hear a whistle when the wind blows
Many happy memories
Seems like we had centuries
Yet there were only eleven short years
Now my eyes fill with tears
For when I woke
Your soft fur I shall stroke
As I did every morn
Now my heart is torn
For when I touched your fur
You did not stir
You did not breathe
For your loss I grieve
When you feel so cold
My friend you got old
Yet I stay ageless
Your story has run out of pages
I miss you old friend
Too soon you greeted your end

May 30

poem 0 comments challenge: General

AliciaMarie7

Too Soon

Amidst
the last darkness
you left
too soon,
like the moon
behind a cloud.

May 27

poem 0 comments challenge: General

princesscreative

Unbalanced

There's not a gap between her thighs
So she has a gap inside her heart
Her stomach isn't as flat as paper
So she feels torn apart
As the number within the scale grows higher
As a building being built
She breaks herself down
Until she is nothing but guilt
Her body will never be the shape of a hourglass
So her time being happy is quick to pass
Her eyes are losing their sparkle
Her smile has begun to go
She screams for help
But you will never hear
You will never know
How her life has met it's doom
As if it were a house without a roof
And it never stops raining
There is nothing she could ever do
She is forced to hold herself together
All around the clock
Fighting this bad weather
While her heart is under lock
All she can do is sit alone
Hoping that one day someone loves her
Enough to call her their own

May 27

poem 0 comments challenge: General

princesscreative