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dctezcan
"Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how!" "Be the reason someone smiles today!"
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Don't hide the madness (Allen Ginsberg)
"After all, the wool from the black sheep is just as warm. ” — Sister Margaretta, The Sound of Music Prose or poetry
Ended April 18, 2025 • 4 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"Time doesn't heal all wounds...
"...it just changes you enough so you can live with them." (Matlock 2025, episode 4) Poetry or prose.
Ended April 16, 2025 • 3 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"The gem cannot be polished without friction" (Seneca)
"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift." (Mary Oliver) Poetry, please.
Ended April 11, 2025 • 4 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Tempest-tossed
"Every storm runs out of rain." (Maya Angelou) Poetry or prose
Ended April 9, 2025 • 13 Entries • Created by dctezcan
The road to hell...
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as evil." (Niccolo Machiavelli) Prose or poetry.
Ended April 4, 2025 • 7 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Deceit
"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. " Niccolo Machiavelli Prose, please.
Ended April 3, 2025 • 3 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Broken Pieces
"A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended." (Ian McEwan) Prose or poetry.
Ended March 17, 2025 • 10 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them". (Isabel Allende)
Poetry or prose
Ended March 12, 2025 • 7 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"Everything you can imagine is real." (Pablo Picasso)
That's a scary thought... Poetry or prose
Ended March 11, 2025 • 4 Entries • Created by dctezcan
To live, perchance to dream
"You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened." (Jorge Luis Borges)
Ended March 2, 2025 • 3 Entries • Created by dctezcan
The Beast
"Maybe there is a beast...maybe it's only us." (William Golding, Lord of the Flies)
Ended March 1, 2025 • 6 Entries • Created by dctezcan
The hourglass of life
"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." Niccolo Machiavelli
Ended February 17, 2025 • 8 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Blindness
"I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see." José Saramago, Nkbrl prize winning Portuguese author)
Ended February 16, 2025 • 4 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Shadow and light
"Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light." (Pythagoras) Poetry or prose.
Ended February 9, 2025 • 13 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Dreamweaver
"Clouds are the dream weavers of the sky, spinning fantasies in sunlight" (Rabindranath Tagore) Poetry or prose.
Ended February 8, 2025 • 6 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"When god and his angels slept..."
Prose or poetry.
Ended February 2, 2025 • 9 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Things fall apart
"Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place." (Unknown) Prose, please.
Ended January 20, 2025 • 5 Entries • Created by dctezcan
This isn't goodbye...
"The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” (Irving Berlin) Poetry or prose.
Ended January 19, 2025 • 8 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Lessons learned
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." (Khalil Gibran) Poetry or prose.
Ended January 18, 2025 • 8 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Melting Clocks
If you aren't familiar with it, Google Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory and then...write. Poetry or prose.
Ended January 10, 2025 • 4 Entries • Created by dctezcan