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The Life of the Potted Plant
Poetry or Prose
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7v7 in Stream of Consciousness

Meditating

in the architecture

of society

the soul

is ancient

as bonsai

clipped to fit

the windowsill

05.07.2025

The Life of the Potted Plant challenge @Last

Challenge
The Messes
Think about the most annoying, frustrating, and/or chaotic person you know. Maybe it’s your deadbeat friend, maybe it’s your messy coworker, maybe it’s your annoying brother who always asks you for money. Write a prose piece about them or from their point of view.
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Wakes Progress

We look at algae

that murky slipping gift

and call it by name

or if we don't know

we say: man, what is it ?!

and someone wizen

answers: Kelp

or if no one is there

to ask

we turn to pages,

reference pictures

and try to catalog it

ourself

among other

slimy ocean greens

of which there's great mass

and the mess is not chaos

unless we presume it

ourselves

useless

as seaweed.

05.06.2025

The Messes challenge @beatricegomes

Challenge
Devil May Care
The root of all evil, a tale of impossible redemption, or a nightclub owner in LA. What is the devil you hold in your heart, and how can you make us feel the angst, hatred, or regret of the original edgelord himself? Lucifer, Satan, Old Scratch. Misunderstood or worthy of fear, you decide.
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My Doubt

If the Devil were a figure, separate, it would be a fair fight. We'd have it out, battling all our facets like paragons, one city night. Alas, I fear the Devil is my shadow, long or short, trailing right beside me. But when there is no light, the Devil with care, slides closest to me, weaves between my ears, out of sight-- resides in the concave of my heart and mouth-- and stands behind my pupils with blinding fright.

And when I no longer have beside me that Shadow, of a doubt, when I feel most irately that I am Right, and am willing to death to scheme and blight, it's then, we can be absolutely sure, the Devil won.

04.15.2025

Devil May Care challenge @SelfishNeurotic

Challenge
Mirror You, Mirror Me
We are so rarely seen as we really are. Mirrors only reflect the reversal of our image. Imagine the world in which your reverse self in the mirror inhabits. Allow your mirror self to completely embody the dark side of your nature that you would never actualize in this reality. Don't hold back. Be honest with your darkness. Change your name if necessary. Win goes to whoever excites the animus the most.
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7v7 in Fiction

Animus

What looks at me from the mirror

speaks in backwards

tongue

I say "hi,"

The mirror listens

and says, "I."

"Aye...!?!" I ask

my reflection in horror

the mirror answers

in short,

"Eye."

I look more closely

crossing both my eyes

vainly

wondering which one

the right or the left?

I turn east and west

and the mirror

shakes its head.

04.12.2025

Mirror You, Mirror Me challenge @Bunny

Challenge
Tempest-tossed
"Every storm runs out of rain." (Maya Angelou) Poetry or prose
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“Tea Break is Over”

I heard

the dropping of the cup

the final drop

a tempest in my stomach

the power out

and I got up

04.08.2025

Maya Angelou challenge @dctezcan

Challenge
Things have memory
...not memories... memory... persistence or resistance... form of choice... poetry or prose...
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7v7 in Stream of Consciousness

The Seat in the Chair

There's something about

that seat there...

There's a dent that tells

someone sat and sat there

There's a weight in the indent

a sense of importance there

There's a thought somebody

of import waited there...

There's the sound of thinking

that's suggested deep in there

There's the thought of respect

in that dent of the chair.

04.03.2025

Things have memory challenge @Last

Challenge
One man’s trash?
Using the contents of your email's junk folder, write a something that makes me laugh :) The most stylistic treasure wins.
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7v7 in Comedy

My Friend

on days when I think

the cupboard bare...

and find dirth of

staples there

not a grain

of rice

nor

a shred

of tea

I remember

my friend's

dearth advice

to always

look twice

And I wonder

to check deeper

into the cabinet

all the way in back

behind the pickled

herring can...

which lost

its tab

Groping in that

dust filled empty

I have to crackle

as I recall my

friend Spam

and the misplaced

bottle opener

She sends me

in email a joke

each day

and a recipe

from a website

called Holy Food...

I've won a prize too!

I find this all

in the folder

named in her

honor...

Thank you Spam.

04.02.2025

One man's trash challenge @Mariah

Challenge
Deceit
"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. " Niccolo Machiavelli Prose, please.
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The Quandary of Deceit

To deceive the deceiver is double the pleasure, I beguiled myself snidely with a snicker so sure was I of myself on my side when I said in deference:

"What they don't know, won't hurt..."

...myself, hastening to make it ...to work:

"One cut corner, doesn't make for..."

...a triangle, or big break, and I pocketed my gain of a quarter of an hour...

here or there, pinching this and that... and grimly remembered, when placing a call, collect, from the jail.

04.01.2025

Deceit challenge @dctezcan

Challenge
Double Tanka Poetry Challenge
Using 10 lines and a syllable count of: 57577 & 57577, tell a story. Most creative/descriptive wins.
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7v7 in Poetry & Free Verse

Tanka on the Lawn

It's admirable

to see all these blades of grass

as just blades of grass

and not army battalions

armoring for their homeland

It's honorable

to hear all these words of thought

as just words of thought

and not riot battle-cries

rioting in the conscious

03.31.2025

Double Tanka challenge @Mariah

Challenge
Broken Pieces
"A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended." (Ian McEwan) Prose or poetry.
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Ripstop

as a fabric

I am made of Nylon

and like every

manmade

material I start out

Natural

a thread

of living and dead

fossil

fuel

that is made

by heating and cooling

made plastic

stretched across

the skeleton

of an umbrella

to keep the family

from the sun and rain

and wrap us in between

the fluff and down

in the glove of

of winter

it's a fabric called

Ripstop

and for all its strength

if it rips

it doesn't stop

and every attempt

to glue or patch

makes a bigger rip

in Time

03.15.2025

Broken pieces challenge @dctezcan