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teach me to love
anything goes!! tag me tho
Azimuth
28 reads

To Risk Love

If I never took a risk

There'd be no jagged scars

Furrowed on this mortal soul

Nor engraved upon my heart

If I never took a risk

No scars would map the places

Of battles lost and won

No trophies for those races

If I never took a risk

There'd be no gaping place

Chiseled from my heart

Carving out for you a space

But since I took that risk

The wounds of risk have healed

Sealing you inside of me

In those empty places that you've filled

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Challenge
Writing of any kind for the fallen Marines/Soldiers/Sailors/Airmen/Coasties? Memorial Day weekend?
Azimuth
37 reads

The Final Slip

(Memorial Day challenge)

His blood lent life to the fallow sand

Leaving death white, his limp, cold hand

Fingers grew stiff in my frantic grip

As breath gave his body the final slip

There we lay shattered on the silent earth

Where had this monster been brought to birth?

His body broken, never to heal

My soul shattered...never again to feel.

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Challenge
Challenge of the Month XIII - April
The End. It's over. SARS-CoV-2 is no more. We emerge from our shelters. What do we see? What have we learned? How will we change? Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners.
Azimuth
61 reads

The Dirge of Worry

The march of the beat of the heart

Has lost sync with the tune of the song

The steps of the dance fell apart

As the rhythm just stutters along

Because Worry has struck up a dirge

That drowns out the rhythms of Peace

And with every ominous surge

The feet of my heart miss a beat

The notes of Peace I no longer can hear

For Worry has medlied with the March of Fear

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Azimuth in Poetry & Free Verse
67 reads

The Poet’s Anthem

I am a poem

Written line by line

One stanza at a time

My life, a message

Penned on a page of time

Metered out in verse and rhyme

Puzzle with the metaphor of me

Compare your life and mine

Seek for its message and its sign

If I am the message

What will my missive be

On the mortal page of me?

When the final line is read

May you hear and see

The Author of this poem...

...Who wrote to you through me

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Azimuth in Poetry & Free Verse
48 reads

Love Damage

I etched my heart upon the clouds

And left it there among the shrouds

Buffeted by stormy winds

Drifting on its shifting whims

I burn with lightning bolts

Tremble in the thundering rolls

In those final breaths of day

Before the clouds can drift away

I paint them with my bleeding heart

As a final work of art

When night falls on the world asleep

I pour myself on earth to weep 

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Challenge
Tears.
Let's face it, we're an emotional lot, we creative types. Write about crying. It could be about the cause of your tears, the emotion behind them, or simply the physical reaction. Poetry and prose both welcome. Whichever way it takes you.
Azimuth
44 reads

A Prisoner Named Sorrow

Sorrow crawls up

the back of my throat 

A paraplegic, dragging

herself in a moat

She climbs up to weep

through my eyes

The prisoner of my soul...

...paralyzed 

I would release her

and set her free

But the door is locked

and I can’t find the key 

#tearschallenge #sorrow #phylosophy

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Azimuth in Haiku
33 reads

The Thirst of Earth

Sun's golden nectar

Blended with deep ruby wine

Quenched earth's thirst with sky

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Challenge
Write a micro-poem conveying an important opinion or view in as few words as possible.
The criteria is only that a micro-poem is written showing as much meaning as possible from the writer on a specific topic (preferably) labeled at the end of the piece. The idea is to share strong, complex feelings in few sentences. (Not sure how many will see this, but for those who enter, thanks!)
Azimuth in Micropoetry
191 reads

The Strength of Weakness

You let me

love you 

for your

strength.

Are you

strong enough

to let me

love your weakness?

...to see

your heart 

and be that 

missing

part?

Or will you

hide what's weak

so long, 

you'll

never know

that

together 

weakness

becomes

Strong?

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Azimuth in Stream of Consciousness
117 reads

Supernatural Word

In the beginning was the Word

Creative force and power

Like an eagle in a dive

into the realm of time

Spoke into existence

Your universe and mine

The resonating sound

Contained within itself

Shapes, sounds and worlds

Breath of life, that Word

The voice that took a form

Glides through darkness like a bird

Oh the power in that word!

That we have broken down

Cacophonous clichés

Mere consonants and vowels

The word became mere letters

With no creative power

But just beyond my reach

My fingers brush its edge

Hovering in the void

An echo, I have heard

The form and living shape

Of the Supernatural Word

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Azimuth in Poetry & Free Verse
140 reads

The Empty Places

If I never took a risk,

there'd be no jagged scars

furrowed on this mortal soul,

nor engraved upon my heart

If I never took a risk,

no scars would map the places

of battles lost...and won,

no trophies for those races

If I never took a risk,

there'd be no gaping place

chiseled from my heart...

making you a perfect space

But since I took that risk,

The wounds of risk have healed

sealing you inside of me,

...in those empty places, you have filled 

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