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Honor a loved one.
Write about a person that even in death enters your thoughts. Honor them, tell their story, or just anything about them really. Just talk about them. :)
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rayyyyy
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My Grandfather.

Smiling eyes,

and wrinkles

around the corners

of the grin that would adorn

your kind face.

Always eager

to tell a story

of worlds far away

time long past

and creatures yet unseen.

how selfless you were!

anything that was yours

was also that of anyone in need of it

and yet anything that wasn't,

you never coveted.

even against those who wronged you

you harbored no grudge

the most kindhearted,

you never judged

and yet life has no patience

time no empathy at all

in the end

death comes for us all,

but it came for you first.

and for the rest of my days spent without you,

i will lament.

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Challenge of the Week CCXXVIII
This week, post a poem of that isn't necessarily your favorite, but it's a favorite of those who read you. Winner is decided by likes and us. As usual, 25 bucks is paid to the winner. Go.
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rayyyyy
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it.

I see it.

Lurking

In the shadows

Of the doorway

Under

The table

Everyday

Under

My bed

It sits

And always

At night

While i lie

Awake

It crawls

Watching

Waiting

Always

In the shadows

Nameless

Unknown.

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rayyyyy
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him.

I look for him

in the corners of pictures,

the ends

of corridors,

in the midst of football games.

i see his smiling face

in the middle of the pitch

from the corner of my eye

in the back of my mind

always

i see him

i watch him from a distance

laughing in the company of others

never close enough

never too far away

to not care.

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Challenge
More Love
Write a poem or short story. It can be fact or fiction, from male or female perspective on the time you fell in love, and you were supposed to already be in love.
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rayyyyy in Romance & Erotica
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his hair.

the first thing i noticed about him,

his hair.

it gleamed in the sunlight,

wavy locks cascading down to his shoulders.

he turned towards me,

his hair waving in the breeze.

his eyes.

they gazed into mine,

rendering me motionless.

my heart skipped a beat,

stumbling,

falling.

i fell in love with everything about him.

his walk,

the confident nonchalant meander,

his laugh,

lighting up his face,

and warming my heart.

life without him is colourless,

a dreary white and grey.

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Water
Write water, but a person. Personify water.
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rayyyyy
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Water

She is beautiful,

No one who sees her can deny it.

She gives life,

But can take it away as quickly.

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rayyyyy
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People seek solace in people, the company of others like them, or those who like them.

When someone has problems at home, they find comfort in the people they meet at school. They talk to hundreds of people each month, at school and outside, forming friendships to fill the gap they have in them, to distract from their problems.

Not me.

I have never made a proper, human connection to someone.

I have never felt the joy in seeing someone, at talking to them, simply being in their company, with the knowledge that they feel the same, that my attachment to them is not entirely one sided.

No one truly has an attachment to me.

I'm either that "crazy" girl, laughing too often, occasionally violent accidentally, the "nerd" who you can copy off in class, or the random brown girl no one likes.

I need to feel needed and I need it more than I let on.

Its not that I don't believe in the concept of friendship to that extent, because I do. I see how close everyone seems to be to at least one person in their life, their popularity, the way they can walk into a room and light up people's faces, the way people search for them, inquire where they are when they're not with them for longer than a few minutes.

Never me.

Why?

Why don't I deserve to have someone, at least one person, who is proud to call me their best friend, who misses me when I'm not there, who wants to spend time with me, who genuinely enjoys my company, by choice, and not "obligation"?

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