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Prose Challenge of the Week #24: Using a minimum word count of 10, maximum word count of 250, Write a piece about GREED. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge
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Prose Challenge of the Week #24: Using a minimum word count of 10, maximum word count of 250, Write a piece about GREED. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge
Cover image for post Gold's Glitter, by derickijohnson
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derickijohnson
254 reads

Gold’s Glitter

Beware her "come hither"

It's but a sirens' call

Lust for gold's glitter

Makes slaves of us all...

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Prose Challenge of the Week #24: Using a minimum word count of 10, maximum word count of 250, Write a piece about GREED. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge
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sandflea68
300 reads

Venomous Seed

You slither like a viper into my shade

gorging voraciously, devouring my core

imprisoning with your gluttonous greed.

Eating away at my world by inches

your serpent indulgence rapacious

you won’t stop until you’ve consumed me

swallowed me whole, a lump in your gut.

Your vile undulating was not invited -

why steal the shoes of my existence?

Slinking snake-like to poison my identity

corkscrewing my reality with entangled nape

subjugated by greed of your venomous seed

lurking in grass to sink fangs into my soul.

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Prose Challenge of the Week #24: Using a minimum word count of 10, maximum word count of 250, Write a piece about GREED. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge
Cover image for post Evermore, by HauntedEquinox
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HauntedEquinox
306 reads

Evermore

Penance for your thoughts alone,

We live to be buried in a coffin of gold.

'Twas the night your muse renounced, 

Our hearts of profit; slim and sour.

Steal the coins that clothe your corpse,

And withdraw the petals that lost it's flower.

These buildings crush and overflow,

With hoards of want we disregard.

For in the end, there's unceasingly so much more;

Misplaced heaps of flesh we love, then ignore. 

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Prose Challenge of the Week #24: Using a minimum word count of 10, maximum word count of 250, Write a piece about GREED. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge
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James
401 reads

Need for greed

I want to be happy, never sad at all.

My days of been lonely, goes away, like a waterfall

I want to be faithful

One lady forever till am never

But this hay of beauty, I am a needle

Its hard to choose, Bella or Amanda.

I want to be a giver

Share what I have, even if it's so little

But, it is easier to be filled, and choose not to bother.

Though I stretch out my hands, reaching for the needy

My fingers won't let go, stomach says,"I pity"

Though I love Bella dear, a mold of my ribs.

Amanda I can't let go,

She will cry, Everest deep.

Why can't I have it all?

Why does nature calls the shots?

It would be easy if everyone was no more, for me to be the boss, and get what I want.

But how can I be the boss when everyone is no more.

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Prose Challenge of the Week #24: Using a minimum word count of 10, maximum word count of 250, Write a piece about GREED. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge
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DaveK
248 reads

We Paint the Night

at night

when sunlight

leaves and

the mirage fades,

we see the sky

as it really is,

reflecting the end

of our desire

back to us,

but it just

confirms what

we've lost until

tomorrow.

and the aurora

of our snarling need

looks good

as it drowns

in moonlight.

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Prose Challenge of the Week #24: Using a minimum word count of 10, maximum word count of 250, Write a piece about GREED. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge
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DaniciaTari
437 reads

Parched

You were the rain, and I, a flower soaking in your essence, using your tears to wash away the evidence of my sins. Aching for the dampness so carefully teased and so reluctantly distant. The more I had of you, the more I craved. Torrential downpours did nothing to sooth the burn in my veins rooted deep into the earth, the gentlest raindrop kisses did nothing to ease the longing of my pale petal thighs. Floods carried away my ambitions with their tumultuous promises of a future, thunderstorms left me making love to the ground in a bed of silken dirt and hungry worms. But still it was never enough. I need all of you. I would rather drown in your love and never resurface, than to feel the sun kiss my weather worn skin one more time. Of all the deadly sins, I never thought I was Greed, until my dehydrated lips met yours and I vowed to never stop drinking.

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Prose Challenge of the Week #24: Using a minimum word count of 10, maximum word count of 250, Write a piece about GREED. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge
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Samantha
482 reads

SOLOIST...

When I was younger, all I wanted was love!

His words still hurt, the one I tried to keep

Love is cruel, the pain too deep

Greed has become essential,

Oh this time I will reap!

She can’t have you, you are mine alone!

Lord knows I deserve you, and I will let you see it

But before I knew it, you were gone,

I thought;

Hold him while he slips but;

My quest for the good things of life

Would leave me in a vain circle,

Of soloists;

Having too much,

In a world were people are dying

I’m surviving...

Alone!

A hole in my heart but heck my bank account overflowing

Maybe now I will sleep well at night,

Oh now I can comfort myself!

But no, tears still are my best friends

My sobs are still my favourite songs

Neither accompanied by any musical instrument,

I am a soloist!

My cup overflows but yet even from the ones that drip

the earth does not deserve a sip;

Having yet Needing

Satisfied yet empty!

My possessions and money only

leaves a bitter taste in my mouth now;

Loneliness my only true companion,

I am a soloist!

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Prose Challenge of the Week #24: Using a minimum word count of 10, maximum word count of 250, Write a piece about GREED. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge
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SimSiAn
1.5k reads

greed doesn’t pay. greed it is a lack of humanity

greed doesn't pay. greed it is a lack of humanity

there are lots of things that matter in one’s life 

living in harmony,

limiting cautions 

avoid greed

To take care of others -

Many are going through hard times

To help them.

There are fellows who gather more wealth

Often breaking the law

- This is not appropriate

Blinded by greed

They don’t find happiness in the end

And as if they don’t care of others

They don’t find the meaning of love

Advice: Don’t be afraid of seeking happiness far away from greed

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Prose Challenge of the Week #24: Using a minimum word count of 10, maximum word count of 250, Write a piece about GREED. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge
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Verbolution, A Prose Original Series: Season Three - "The Rebreath"
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Verbolution, A Prose Original Series: Season Three - "The Rebreath"
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The Birth of Greed

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Prose Challenge of the Week #24: Using a minimum word count of 10, maximum word count of 250, Write a piece about GREED. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge
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ALifeWitArt
205 reads

A Greedy Thirst

I want you. I want you now. There is a voracious desire welling inside of me, and it wants you. I will fill this determination with you, no matter what. I want to feel your breath escape from your lips. I want your life to brush against my flesh. I do not care how downtrodden you feel, I know your spirit is insipid. It doesn't matter. I know you're weak and have limited strength. I know that you are sick, and you struggle to care for your ailing mother. I know that your demons haunt you, and the monkey on your back claws. But I don't fucking care. All that matters is that I get what I want. I can't stifle my rapacity anymore. Bad timing is meaningless. And your requests exhaust me. My empathy is numb and my desire to get what I want is on fire. I will drive to your house and pick you up. I do not care who else is home. Or we can go to my place when my kids are at school. Fuck your job. Fuck your obligations. Fuck everything except what I want right now. And I want you. I will place your hands in all the right spots for you. I need to smell your carnality and I don't care how it makes you feel. Your participation is inessential. All that matters is how I feel. I'll do whatever it takes to feed this ravenous cupidity inside of me. Right now.

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