Challenge
For the New and Young people who have recently (6 months or less) joined-Prose.
FYI: I check every single entry for length of time. I only allow Under 6 months as a member.
One year if you are young and it is stated on your profile.
Do not worry about 'likes' this challenge is monarchy.
Thank you,
Benz
It warms my heart when I see young people who have recently joined our amazing writing group- Prose. It restores my faith in poetry, knowing it will live on.
Think of this as an english class and I am the teacher. Please share with me your 'own' poem, that has never before been in any challege or published here on the prose. It can be about anything. Poetry only (I prefer verse, with an awareness for simple grammar) although it is not mandatory.
I will read each piece thoroughly.
Please tag me after you have entered.
Please be patient if I do not review the same day you enter. I want to give every write the attention it deserves.
*Everyone will receive a review.
I am not a writing expert, reviews are based on my own experience of reading and writing poetry for many decades and what I have learned from my editors.
*These reviews are my opinion.
Thank you and have fun!
-Benz
I pray,son
First day of school remember I
Stood in awe of building's height
Now it's place I take you, son
To be told you'll touch the sun
Just like me when I was young
Earth was greener on this side
So undaunted, I'd jump high
With simple wish to touch the sky
Hopping on till that evil scratch-
to the dark with a lighted match
I saw the world of Run and Catch
On faces bloody slit was stretched
Chained feet, restrained heart
Sizzling in depth, my sun was drowned
Buried with filth and rusty ground
I become a quilt for coward
I pray, son. Cast in stone,
Never betray the way you run
In rain or snow, feel your sun
Whether it's love or great pain
I lost it; time had come,
For death - uncivil to defeat
It found me in six feet mound
Where I strangled my inner being