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Write a love story, real or imagined, told through poetry or short fiction. [Photo by Fabrizio Verrecchia, Unsplash]

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Feb 13

opinion challenge: Love

lilac

Killer Honey Bee

Who decided that red, white, and pink were the colors of love? Is that just the rules?

Why not black? Love isn't always a good thing. It makes you feel all these new good and bad emotions. People use love to manipulate others. Love can sometimes be abusive. Oh, and the jealousy, you can be so jealous. You get swallowed whole by a big black hole, craving and obsessing, over this one person.

However, I’m not saying that all love is like this, no, not at all. I think that love can be a wonderful thing. I guess another good color to describe love is yellow. A warm, sunny yellow. That makes you feel calm but alive. Happy and youthful. As a warm breeze that swifts over your face. You will do anything for this being or thing.

Love is like a bee; it makes sweet honey but can painfully sting you.
Love is like a bee, both black and yellow.

Posted: 02.13.23

Mar 01

nonfiction challenge: Love

Chook

I Wanna

Posted: 03.01.22

Feb 18

poetry challenge: Love

leoriosfunkyshades

A Bug

I adore and treasure you
You bring a smile to my face whenever you're around
I try to make you my own
But unfortunately
You will never favor me particularly
Simply because
I am a tiny bug
And you are a huge garden
I relish in your existence
And yet
No matter how much warmth and attachment I feel for you
Or how kind you are to me
You will never love me
Like I love you
Because I am just
A greedy gluttonous little bug

Posted: 02.18.21

Feb 14

nonfiction challenge: Love

Andrew Knight

A local Lúthien

"Andy, can I hug you?"

Her request was simple enough, though a great sense of awe and pure joy filled me as we came together. Soon enough I found myself in her gentle embrace, her lustrous, shadowy hair cast about me. It was all such a wonderful twist of fate; I had been attending the Hannaford Career Center for two years and each day I was thankful for the young woman I shared a desk with. To walk in each afternoon and sit down to see that smile did much to set aside my anxiety. For months we'd illustrate art and discuss it together as friends - though it was hard for me to put into words how much more I wanted to tell her.

Posted: 02.14.21

Feb 14

poetry challenge: Love

crisscross

Love Haiku

love is unwritten

yet it writes like a poem

universal love.

Posted: 02.14.21

Feb 14

poetry, nonfiction challenge: Love

amaryllis

Little love

Her mouth is on my cheek

and I smile hello at her cherubic face, roaming eyes
completely unaware of what kisses mean

but she does it anyway,
maybe because it reduces me to a grinning fool.

He hugs my legs, and says “hi” without looking up,
A world of giants and toy trucks and eyes that light up
with childish glee and chocolate.

Perhaps I am not so old after all,
in my sweatshirt sixteen years.

Honesty, honestly, I marvel at how emotions
flicker on their faces without hesitation or second thought.

Goodbyes are more or less the same, but bittersweet;
I can’t tell if I feel older or younger, now.

An endless repeat-after-me of bye and I love you’s
Well trained to be cute and loving, I’ve always thought

But as her face lights up when we laugh, and he screams
I LOVE YOU’s by the door, into the chill night

Posted: 02.14.21

Feb 12

fiction challenge: Love

frankoceanwhere...

Angry Love Confession

Don’t you get it? I love you, Jay! I’ve loved you since you transferred here a year ago. Since you showed up to English class every day late for the first week you were here, because you couldn’t find the room and you were to shy to ask someone. Since we got paired up for that project, almost by fate. Since Mrs. Johnson sat us next to each other in history.

All year I’ve been trying to give you a sign, but you just don’t seem to notice! In gym when I would tease you about almost anything, just to have an excuse to talk to you. I would purposely get questions wrong on our quizzes, just so I could ask you for help.

Now you tell me you found a girl, that makes you feel something you've never felt before. What about me? As soon as I heard those words come out of your lips,I felt my heart drop to my stomach. And I’m glad you’re happy, but I just can’t bear to see you with her while I’m sitting here, looking stupid.

Posted: 02.12.21

Feb 11

fiction challenge: Love

Josie

Just a Sandwich

Just a Sandwich

Written by: Josie Haley

“It’s just a sandwich, Kiara, do you really need this to get through finals?”

I look at her with pleading eyes and say, “You know how much I love the lunch order and I promise I’ll pay for yours too.”

She gives me the look, the one I know far too well, then she flips her curly hair and pulls into the sandwich shop parking lot. “Thank you, thank you, thank you.” I blush and grab my wallet from my bag, “I’ll be really quick...do you want anything?”

She lifts her gaze from her phone, “the usual raspberry iced tea and a chocolate croissant please. And if you're not careful you’ll be too busy looking at the guy running the register to remember that.” I wave her off without another word and roll my eyes, Samantha always knows the things I try hard not to make obvious. The most recent was my sudden interest in ordering from the same sandwich shop for 3 months straight.

Posted: 02.11.21

Feb 11

poetry challenge: Love

Chook

The Tree

The tree of love,

    such a beautiful thing.

It grows so many hearts

on its branches and its wings.

The tree of love,

                                 such a wonderful thing,

                 grows stronger and bigger

                   with each wedding ring.

          The tree of love,

     such an amazing thing.

  It`s leaves become denser

   with each word of compassion

        that the birds bring.

         The tree of love,

      a simmering thing.

The light of the moon

in comparison to it

makes the rest of the sky

bow down to the new king.

Posted: 02.11.21

Feb 08

fiction challenge: Love

asabotka

This is the story of two people that fell in love. Adam and Alyssa were two really good friends. They would hangout after school and do homework together. One day after school Alyssa invited Adam over to hang and do homework so Adam said yes. This day was different because Adam seemed nervous and Alyssa noticed. Alyssa asked, “Are you okay Adam?” and Adam said he was okay. But Alyssa knew something was up. Alyssa would keep on telling Adam that she knew something was wrong, so Adam told Alyssa what was wrong, but Alyssa didn't expect what Adam was going to say. Adam told Alyssa that he likes her. Alyssa was shocked because Alyssa liked Adam. So then Alyssa told Adam that and they ended up dating through high school and through college. Adam and Alyssa ended up going to the University of Notre Dame together. Their senior year together at Notre Dame, Adam proposed and they ended up getting married and having two kids.

Posted: 02.08.21

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