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Describe the feeling of falling
Ended June 20, 2019 • 13 Entries • Created by Melancholy_
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Huckleberry_Hoo

Lilly McGown’s Fall

The strangest thing happened

to Lilly McGown.

Her toe caught a crack

but she didn’t fall down.

She bumbled and stumbled

in front of a truck,

and Lilly found

herself falling up!

The crack wasn’t new

she’d seen it before,

it had stubbed a toe

and had caught the door.

’Lil had the means,

it could have been filled,

“but it was only a crack,

who had it killed?”

Poor Lilly expected

to crack her crown,

as always before when

falling down,

she’d split her lip

or blacked an eye

but this time Lilly

fell towards the sky!

She fell and she fell

forever it seemed,

she fell past birds

on feathery wings.

She fell past kites

and clouds and things.

’Lil Lil’ fell upward

as if pulled by a string.

Poor Lilly fell high

to the edge of black,

to that clearly drawn line

where you cannot come back.

She kicked and she waved

but she never could stop

this falling that fell

her right over the top.

Poor Lilly is gone

From her upward spill.

She tripped into Heaven

against her will,

so fill your cracks

and tamp them down

so you never trip up

like Lilly McGown.

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sumannegi22
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Feeling of Falling

Felt like the snow flakes,

whether they will fall on the ground

or above some tree,

whether it will be featured in a photo of glory

or will become the part of some love story,

At last it is going to fall all alone,

this is what i feel when i think of falling and

them people will say "she is gone."

#falling #challenge #life #snow #snowflakes

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2Bamboopanda
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Plummeting

Passing through ivory tufts,

The soft clouds cushion me

As I fall

Further down,

Further down I drift,

The sky a wall of aqua

Pushing me away,

Spurning me from

Its gentle embrace

Suddenly plummeting,

The once vivid sky,

Merely a dull blur

My stomach flips,

Turning and turning,

Performing trick after trick

Further down,

Further down I collapse

The frigid ground,

Covered in an emerald sea,

Grows closer and closer,

Reaching out

To finally meet me

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JustQuinn
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falling..

It’s a lack of control

Irrationality taking hold while

you reach to grab onto

something, reaching into the air realizing

you can’t hold onto memories.

It’s knowing that you can’t stop

Nothing is how you wanted it but

everything else is stable, yet

you’re the one falling even

though you were just letting go.

It’s remembering you’re to blame

Had you only held on tighter, perhaps

you would still be in bed, still

wondering what would have happened if

your fingers had slipped.

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Yellotothehello
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Falling

Falling from a cliff

Falling from a diving board

Not touching a surface

In the air

Weird feelings

Especially in dreams

Falling

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Mazzmyrrheyes
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Lightning Fall From Heaven

(Falling Acrostic)

Feathers carried by the winds,

Aloft within a breeze.

Listening to nothing stop you,

Loosed, as you gain speed.

Illusionary optics

Neural senses stoke suspense;

Grounding you, once face to

face; Pride's gravitas expense

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querencia
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The End

My heart claws its way up my throat, mind blank save for two words revertibrating through every fiber of my body. The End. This is it. Out of time, out of luck... out of life. It will end soon. I want it to be over, but at the same time I hope this moment lasts an eternity. I push the thought of my shattered body splayed on the rocks below away. There is only the present. The wind snaking along my cheeks, caressing my body impossibly gently. It's peacefull, save for the noise. The shreiking of wind as it races through my ears... or maybe it is the sound of my own screaming. I can't tell. I worry for an insant about going deaf, but it doesn't matter now. In a few seconds nothing will matter.

I suppose things haven't mattered for a long time, though. If there was anything left to care about I wouldn't have jumped. There is nothing left for me in the world of the living. I've heard that when you are about to die your life flashes before you, years replayed in a matter of seconds. That isn't true. There are no memories. Just the wind, the sky, and the ground growing steadily closer. I regret jumping, but can't think of any other way to escape the prison my life has become. I wonder if my grandmother will cry when they tell her I'm gone. Probably not. She will just rid herself of the inconvinience the way she removes other problems from her life... by picking up the nearest bottle. I don't have long now. I reach my arms out to either side, letting the sky hold my bruised body. I wonder if this is how the birds feel. A timid smile draws across my face. I have always wanted to fly.

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tryingtobreathe
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F a l l i n g

Falling is hope

Hope that the person will catch you

Falling is fear

Fear that your heart won’t be enough

Falling is love

Love with no bounds is a free fall

Falling is pain

Gut wrenching pain when they leave

Falling is feeling

True feeling is found in falling

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Suspended

To be held by nothing

but the air, this is the

whisk and whip of your

lips against mine,

and I only wish to

settle further into

this moment.

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Falling

Falling

Falling

Falling

Without any hope of ever getting up

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