Need anything? Email info@theprose.com! 

Refer a non-Prose. writer to join Prose. Black Pill, email proof and we will send each of you $10!

PostsChallengesPortalsAuthorsBooks
Sign Up
Log In
Posts
Challenges
Portals
Authors
Books
beta
Sign Up
Log In
Search
Challenge Ended
Calling the Earthlings
This is really important to me. This time last year I had the worst panic attack of my life. I'd sat on the edge of the sea and thought, "I failed you. You gave me everything and I did nothing to protect you." It devolved quickly into nearly six hours of sobbing, hyperventilating, and pure panic. After that, I started picking up trash, for hours on end. I didn't eat meat, I didn't buy clothes, I didn't drive cars.... A lot of the anxiety died down and while I still occasionally pick up trash, I now eat meat and I'll get in a car if need be. But the feeling that I could do more, and the feeling of fear is still wrought in every thought. So this challenge is part of an art project I'm doing to sort of communicate these thoughts- thoughts I know are shared by so many people. Show me how you feel about the environment in any format, and then comment at the bottom whether or not you'd be okay with me using your words, and if I could credit you in any way. Thank you so much!
Ended May 29, 2023 • 10 Entries • Created by CharlieWrites
Challenge
Calling the Earthlings
This is really important to me. This time last year I had the worst panic attack of my life. I'd sat on the edge of the sea and thought, "I failed you. You gave me everything and I did nothing to protect you." It devolved quickly into nearly six hours of sobbing, hyperventilating, and pure panic. After that, I started picking up trash, for hours on end. I didn't eat meat, I didn't buy clothes, I didn't drive cars.... A lot of the anxiety died down and while I still occasionally pick up trash, I now eat meat and I'll get in a car if need be. But the feeling that I could do more, and the feeling of fear is still wrought in every thought. So this challenge is part of an art project I'm doing to sort of communicate these thoughts- thoughts I know are shared by so many people. Show me how you feel about the environment in any format, and then comment at the bottom whether or not you'd be okay with me using your words, and if I could credit you in any way. Thank you so much!
Profile avatar image for GerardDiLeo
GerardDiLeo

Equilibration With or Without Us

No matter,--volcanos, ice, tectonic shifts

Earth equilibrates

Tornados, vise, continental drifts

Birth dominates--

No matter whose

The systems are doomed, come what may

Dearth motivates

Eco-, solar-, Copernican-soufflé

Mirth masturbates

Backscatters diffuse

Blips on steep, maudlin timelines

Wide berth germinates

Flora, fauna, sleepwalking fine lines

Rebirth alternates

Packswaggers recuse

Observer du jour solipsizes

Net worth terminates

Each short run capsizes

Self-decapitates

Accommodates next refuse

Imagining life forever

Earth equilibrates

With or without the deluded or the clever

Nothing can ingratiate

To outlast Earth's next muse

You have read your one article for the month.
Sign up for Prose. to read an extra article for free.
Profile avatar image for GerardDiLeo
GerardDiLeo 
Feel free to plunder any of it, should it be deemed worthy. With just my name (GMDiLeo)
Profile avatar image for CharlieWrites
CharlieWrites 
I love the wordplay! Thank you so much!!!
Profile avatar image for GerardDiLeo
GerardDiLeo
Thank you, too.
I am 21 years or older.