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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.
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Ethereality

Bloom of Youth, Gone to Seed

In spring I am the babe

Nestled in a flowerbed

A sprout of creation released into the world.

In summer I am the maiden

Adorned with white dress and floral crown

Ripening fruit in the noonday sun.

In autumn I am the mother

A belly swollen, carrying the seed

Giving birth to next season's blooms.

In winter I am the crone

Withering stalk, head heavy with knowledge

Hunched and waiting for winter's end.

Now I am but worm food

Decomposing in the earth

My soul dispersed again.

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