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“Be the woman who fixes another woman’s crown without telling the world it was crooked.”
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CodeRed5

Swear

swearing on your heart

is only valid

if your heart is still beating

swearing from your mouth

is only necessary

if your mouth is still angry

swearing with your life

is only done

if your life is still worthwhile

swearing on fate

is only tried

when one is still option-less

swearing without fear

is only prominent

when one’s heart is still smiling

Challenge
Challenge of the Month XVI: July
World Stage. You have the entire world's attention and can say no more than 1,500 words. What say you? Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners.
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Acceptance

I’m not asking you to throw away your beliefs. I’m not asking you to be in support of things you don’t agree with. I’m not asking for you to be someone you aren’t.

I’m just asking for you to accept it.

Are you so hard-headed? Are you so unreceptive? Are you so foolish? Are you so cruel?

Can you not accept people as they are?

What if I told men they couldn’t marry a woman? What if I told women they couldn’t marry a man? You would be mad, wouldn’t you?

No, you would be furious.

So why are you telling a man he can’t marry a man?

Why are you telling a woman she can’t marry a woman?

Oh, want another one?

Remember all those people you interigated because they didn’t identify with your version of an acceptable gender? Remember all those people you attacked because they weren’t feminine or masculine enough? Remember all those people you chose to avoid because they weren’t in your spectrum of normal?

Don’t even get me started on racial discimination.

Hey, white people, would you like to be targeted simply because your skin is light? I thought not. Why are you attacking people of color? Don’t have an answer? I thought so.

Those who disciminate against age? Get over yourselves. Since when were you all-knowing?

Those who discriminate against religion? You don’t have the keys to heaven, so don’t tell someone else to go to hell.

I could go on. I probably should go on. If you haven’t gotten my point by now, than you won’t anytime soon. Unless you change your way of thinking. Unless you try to see reason. Unless you try to surpress your hatred.

Unless you learn to accept people, regardless of race, age, gender, sexual orientation, upbringing and belief.

I’m not asking you to support it.

I’m not asking you to stand front and center at a Pride Parade. I’m not asking you to give speeches about the importance of every religion. I’m not asking you to kiss every human being on the cheek and express an all-encompassing love for them.

But I can expect you to accept it.

I can expect you to stand front and center to stand up for human rights. I can expect you to give speeches to promote equality. I can expect you to shake every human being’s hand and express your acceptance of them.

I’m not asking you to throw away your beliefs. I’m not asking you to be in support of things you don’t agree with. I’m not asking for you to be someone you aren’t.

I’m just asking for you to accept it.

Be soft-hearted. Be receptive. Be wise. Be kind.

Accept people as they are.

Challenge
Challenge of the Week CXCVIII
This is a challenge of FICTION for the sake of art. How would you get away with being a serial killer in 2020?
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The Art of Blending In

When Bombo and Nonnan decieded to reinvent themselves, I knew the world was over. The virus hit, and they wanted to change?

A grin spreads across my face beneath my mask. What fools.

The beach is crowded, of course, despite the possible dangers of the situaion. Many wear masks, many do not. Many are isolated, many are not.

A perfect oppritunity, I say.

Wearing a mask with suspect. Yielding a gun with no one's knowledge. Taking lives without repercussion. How could they pass up this chance? How could anyone not seize this simple oppritunity?

Bombo would be anrgy with me. Nonnan would pity me. They both would repimand me.

Such saints, now. Turning good-hearted and caring in the blink of an eye. Wanting to start a family.

I smile, slipping between two groups on the sand. They chatter, so aimlessly, without fear, spread across the beach as if they are comfortable.

It is too simple, really, how well I blend in. How easy this will be. Bombo and Nonnan are missing out. Truly.

I'm just going to the beach, after all. Just wearing a mask. Just social distancing. Just resting my hand on my gun. Just pulling out my weapon.

Just aiming to kill.

And as the first body falls, my mask barely conceals my satisfaction.

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CodeRed5

Hate Pulls You

Hate is quite lovely

When it pulls your heart and mind

And then you are lost

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CodeRed5

Dream

They say “a dream is a wish your heart makes”.

They say dreams are not reality.

They say dreams are unreachable.

They say dreams are for children.

I say dreams are brought to life through my mind.

I say dreams can one day be reality.

I say dreams will forever be reachable.

I say dreams are for all who will hear them.

They say I am blind.

I say I can see.

They say I can’t dream.

And I say “watch me”.

Challenge
Write a haiku about Summer
5-7-5 syllable breakdown. Add a encore if you don't have enough words or an explanation of your piece.
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CodeRed5 in Poetry & Free Verse

Windless

Heat, lover of pain

My hair, flat against my neck

Wishing for the wind

Challenge
Pearls
A sentence you always wanted to hear. Be it for you from someone (family/friends/pet etc) or anything that is not really approved in this world. Just anything which you seek to hear. Take it deep or funny! (not necessary that it has to be 15 words. Even 3 lettered "i love you" would work but to fill the word limit, do it alright!
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CodeRed5 in Words

Time

Here’s what you’ve wanted for years, my child. A pocket of time, at your disposal.

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CodeRed5

Tearful Tree

Thorns of forlorn fear

Hold the captives in dead rain

A lone tree of tears

Challenge
Write a haiku about something in nature.
Haiku: A three-line poem. First line has 5 syllables, second has 7 syllables, and last has 5 syllables. Have fun with this!
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CodeRed5

Whispers of The Wind

I know Wind whispers

But are the words bad or good?

All these temptations

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CodeRed5

Pay Attention

I can’t remember

Because you never speak

No beautiful words

On a Magical peak

You are glued to the ground

With your head held high

You can never win

When stuck in a tie

But who are you racing?

Only yourself

An endless war

On a broken shelf

So don’t tell me to look

Don’t tell me to see

No good will come

When you wait for me

So until that day

When you rise from the ground

That will be

How I stop turning around

Take a step up

I beg of you

Look to the skies

Become new

Now pay attention

And remember me

Because I was the girl

That set you free

And freedom is light

Take a chance now

Mistakes are crucial

I'll show you how

You will stumble

Fall

Trip

Fail

On your way up that Magical

New

Special

Mountain trail

Pay attention

Remember me

I was the girl

I set you free

I led you off the ground

I stopped the individual war

I united your heart and mind

And let you infer

Have fun in the mountain skies

On that Magical peak

And please, pay attention

And remember me

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