Challenge
Summer-into-Fall Prose. Wrap-up Challenge
In five haikus, tell a story about the cycle of life. Start with being born, then so forth. Because this is absorbing the entirety of all Prose. Challenges until October's start, we're giving the winner $250. Winner is decided by a combination of likes, and our panel. And...Go.
The Current
…Yanked from the grotto.
Flung into the torrent sea.
Unable to swim.
Dark water teaches
young lungs how to pressurize
the deeper they fall.
Yet, you equalize,
and learn to bring extra air
to roam the trenches.
Some stay down too long,
some are sucked by the riptide.
Few breach the surface.
But, if you’re lucky
You’ll find a grotto on shore
to die peacefully…
© 2023 Chris Sadhill