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A wondering road of words and phrases, leading to the inevitable tale around every corner and unanticipated turn.
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Lost
When you're feeling lost, where do you go?
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kinkinkali in Poetry & Free Verse
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Where who I how

I am blue

my breathless face is blue

The afternoon is far to blue

I sit a thousand eons

in my purgatory of ignorance

mental illness is collective trauma.

Stand down, unseat my lofty notions.

Cultural superiority forget your place

embrace accountability for slights

I see but long to feel.

Torment my waking terrors.

Finger self inflicted wounds

peel the pain beneath the scabs

slice away my lids with razor blades

and lay ever awake, enlightened

yet clueless of the torchers flame

cast onto thatch erasing

an abode behind doors secrets

burning within. my pyromanic rage

scorched tale is left in rubble

scavenged from my soul of empty halls.

A building vacated where floors

lay one on top the other

I pretend to dance beneath

a glitter ball suspended in imagining.

Come closer

feel the breath across the lobe

tingeling sensuality

peeling me off of splattered

abstract strobe lit silhouette

a realisation not a relief.

I am blue

You are sick.

I am?

Yes you are come

let me help.

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Follow Me Do
New kid on the block looking for fearsome writers, fabulous friends, and magical reads. Tell me why I should (or absolutely, definitely shouldn't) follow you in 100 words or so.
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kinkinkali
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Have a Whit

I’ll tell you exactly why you shouldn’t follow me.

I don’t actually know where I'm going

I wouldn't have a notion of how to communicate

to anyone other than my arrogance

that I am so lost, I make the Pole star doubt it knows where it is.

Besides I’m a useless navigator

I have a broken satellite connection

un-repaired for more than short span of memory.

And, if you are following me, I might think you are some authority in pursuit of non-payment of something. so please have a whit and steer well clear of anywhere I might be going.

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The Priest-less Confessional
A place to air your grievances with yourself. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose. Pride or attrition. Anything goes.
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kinkinkali
28 reads

I hate me so much right them.

What a knobby gabby one you are.

How inter-let-me-tell you what I know.

You jump queues with know person standing in them

you self sucking head up hole of ego

preening and displaying playing for

an audience of empty seats

vacated as you take the stage

and open your self serving trap of ages

between a hard place and your no

charisma whittles block of foolery

Make a meal of loving puke and

spit on shoes before you throw them at yourself

place a palm to indicate where your heart lays

Your hand are in your pocket fool!

Fall behind your knees and meet your brain

in between your orifice of reason

Lord you are a lips spit of phlegm

Learn not to see yourself as you think the others see you

and stop talking to yourself like that.

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Is boredom a form of suffering?
Write about it any way you want
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kinkinkali
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Suffering a sufferance

Internally boredom must feel like a punishment

externally an ennui looks so much like self abuse

Boredom, you do it to yourself and then in ignorance perceive

that slight to you is done. You are somehow set upon

by an unseen forces, chastising notion of unknown possibilities

in walled universes of unmet outcome.

On tip toes voyeurism tugs the ear and pulls the eye

to spy activity in every locality save within.

The neighbour topless bathing on a hedge-less lawn

so immaculate it is itself a boredom

Tedium irks the conscious.

Bile churns stomach juices to an ach

that makes inert pain more acute,

a doing you to self inflict.

In self quarrel a mirrors phantoms hurl admonishment

for all of the undone doings that uncouple from possibility.

Guilt and shame collude and conspire

you perceive a pillaging stripping away interests attachment

faceless tormentors ringless digits notes the loneliness

ones predicament encourages.

Absent occupation and distraction raise circumstance

of not knowing what to do like adolescent hormones

not knowing which chaos to calm.

Hope for bitter pages when a cover appears sweet

dissatisfaction is an empty meal that bloats you.

as boredom is a bloated you that is empty.

Suffering, or sufferance of self loathing?

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Experiencing the Wait
I often think about how much time we spend waiting vs experiencing. Tell me about your experience with the wait. Any genre, any style. Winner receives adoration and praise. Between 15-100 words.
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kinkinkali
27 reads

Faith waits

I am waiting to have a dream like Martin, seeing sons and daughter in collective shapes of hand in hand. No placards of protest needed to assert our obvious progresses not yet achieved.

I am waiting for the wonder of together standing to be noted for its norm.

I want us to be for granted that, we are the dream and the waiting for that dream to be the nightmare long ago dispelled.

I am waiting for feeling empathy has transcended, that touch is an unbreakable embrace.

I am waiting for divinities perfection to purify me and who I am.

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Writing tips
Being fairly new to TheProse., I imagine this is nothing new. Still, maybe it's time again. What tips can you share from which we might benefit as writers? From finding the first word to finding a publisher... what have you got to share?
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kinkinkali
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Write..........

Write so that it does not matter who is writing.

Leave the agenda off the page

let words lead us to discover intent.

Be no more than a turner of phase.

Let words imagine the imagination

play out fantasy rather than fantasies

on words imagining them as fantastic.

Be careful not to miss the mark

through over work and clever coinage.

Hold back ego radiated literatures.

Challenge you to be another,

others, many, nothing and everything.

Let it all behind for the after

to deduce that you are forever.

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Metaphor poem
Make a poem about a metaphor, any metaphor, without saying the metaphor.
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kinkinkali in Poetry & Free Verse
35 reads

All for us and none for all

None save loves rebirth empowered light shall stop the hours turn as by degree and pendulum a to and fro in motion tend the passer on his passage through a terminus and prelude due as fallacy and falsity reflect each other well.

Endeavours striven conversations course the elements in trace accord through pulse and vein as strained pretence cares not a shredded ruined reputations memory when long ago was real and when waned nostalgia's left the racked and ruined all forlorn

Sealed vaults of empty digits fidgeted between the fated fickle finger wagged and pointed for misguidances appearance on the stage as badly acted parts are cured in smokers poisoned atmospheres that hide a stench not noted for its bitterness

Away brushed metals shoo a linear array of husks blown as chaff discarded waist seen with eyes as conjured apparitions flail and flee the falls inevitable edge approached from behind an unannounced surprise expected not that Good win

Rude awakenings startle inner wails ensue and spew across a rolling carousel of sleepers while the thief in nights awaited trample babe and man and crone one visions victory so close while one sight tries to see for two and cheat a hand unseen

A turned surf draw souls down into channels swirling life ebbs as shores erode the fight is drained and death ensues pages blot no tears in vacuums void of unheard screams for pities vanity lay unrequited tattered and most drab a remnant on a slab

God anoints men appoint the herd begets a flock blocks sets no prisoner free dreams escape recall with fleeing scent a certainty is rend from bolstering officiators tied to seats that topple over parapets and crash on rocks below

Evaluated methods weigh the coin on futures turn waist and slurry swills the dung sleeping giants stew a brew whispers coil conspirator vines tie binds and tether babes who kiss on smothered lips and choke in cribs near burdens validated hear and say

Sandmen rises from smoke and daggers pierce the night as flesh becomes a putrid fruit for those that drink the fear cleaving mothers torso as the babe is splayed on checkered floors where hand mens tools adorn the halls and blood runs freely down

Alas the puzzled brow is scratched to itch away an unsolved clue that clouds a reasoned meaning as regurgitation drowns the choking soul afloat on open waters sky above mechanical gyrations of dismay the mariners are left adrift

Religions purge belief authorities lost guaranties assure shedding lizards skin and scales raise effigies as heroes age expires wanes and dies Doves of oneness fulfil prophets sight as visions clear recall the last when souls remain for no rebirth

A final word to the absurd foolhardy and the blind as riddles are entwined in an epiphanies anticipation pine not for the revelation tarry by no destination where the hoards await to storm the gated as they satiate themselves on pawns that are expended

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Who has got the BEST First Liner?
Can you make us thirsty for an entire novel by writing your BEST first line? Write the BEST first line to the next story that you never knew you wanted to tell. Sell us on your big idea in forty (40) words or less, no more. Draw us in by saying everything to overwhelm our minds with excitement or say just enough to lure us in and have us lusting for the next four-hundred pages. Any Genre is allowed. The object is to grab us at the beginning and to make us never want to let go. Must be done in one sentence. Happy writing!
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kinkinkali in Flash Fiction
28 reads

Tenancy

Has thought crossed your mind, what might have been before under seats you sit upon on floors in places where none know the unimaginable ones before order, before belief, before the ignorance leading to us who ruled the roost ?

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World's Most Conceited Phrase Competition.
Nominate the disgustingest, cringiest, fakiest pukiest phrase in common use. Make it your title. Then briefly describe why you find the phrase so detestable. Or alternately; defend it.
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kinkinkali in Comedy
47 reads

If you don’t mind me saying.....

I am going to say what the hell I like, regardless of you liking it or not.

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In 15 words, answer the following question: "What is wrong with the world today?"
Bonus points for utilization of humor and/or rationality.
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Read after burning
Chapter 2 of 35
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kinkinkali

It’s this way

The blindest of the blind proclame, they have visioned the way ahead and everyone follows.

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