Challenge
Poetry contest. Twenty word minimum. First place will be decided based on the poem, of course, though the number of comments posted by others will be factored in (critiques or praise, no one word or three word quickies) and those who comment should "like" it to keep the judges looking for updated reads. Write a poem about anything. Aim for the gut. Winner gets $100.
feu doux
take this flawed and leaky patchwork vermillion thing,
a parcel of threadbare hopes, of weary-laden dreams,
barely stitched with remnants of felicity’s string -
and evanesce it anyhow through the furnace of your fervent love.