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tskbenjamin
I write the feelings I feel, the life I am blessed to live and the love of life I see clearly through my mind'd eye. I am a writer.
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Challenge of the Week
Alright, you brilliant beasts. To kick off the first $25 Weekly Challenge, we're keeping it easy and exact. Suuuure..... Most of us have been in this spot, asked the question, so we'll frame a setting. Here goes. You're on a first date with a person you met online. There's attraction there, but you're still trying to figure out if the chemistry is physical AND mental. The person across the table asks you what kind of writing you do, and when you give them a genre, they say, in one way or another, "Describe your writing to me." This week's challenge is to answer that question here. The winner will be decided by likes on this one.

Through your mind’s eye & soul

A walk in darkness

Feeling for light

Bumping your toe on the hard surface of determination

Toppled over onto the sun

Basking in the rays, as light shines through you and into the people unseen

Forming words with the softness of clouds

Speaking for the silenced

Healing wounds dripping like a rainstorm

Bellowing the joy and pain from deep within

Your soul

Mind

& being

Challenge
Write a non-rhyming poem that includes the words drumstick, dressing, gravy, grace, and pie BUT has nothing to do with the Thanksgiving Holiday.
$3 Prize References to Thanksgiving will be eliminated. Mass tagging of any kind results in disqualification.

My Prince Warning

Looking like he was dipped in salad dressing and chicken gravy

He walked across the room with more grace than my spikey hair that constantly disobeyed the gel

His tailored pants hugged his drumstick feet

Sharper than the cheap pharmacy razor that slices away at my sexy....

Legs

Hair laying so smoothly on his perfectly shaped head

I licked my lips as I imagined that he smelled as good as he looked

Pressing my lips closed

I tried to breathe normally as he glided in my direction

Die

Breathe

Leave

Live

I needed a pie chart to weigh my options

Leaving seemed to have more data in its favor

My husband just called

I needed to be alive tomorrow to take my kid to school

And my difficulty breathing was way less fun than speaking to a stranger in the grocery store on a saturday morning.

I went home...

Warned.

Challenge
Your dream. In poetry.
Tell us about a dream you had recently. Write it in poetry form.

Virgin Mary

A virgin mary

I stood embarrased and confused

Caressing the stretched skin that held the 3 month old human I had conceived mysteriously

A changed life

Adjusted ideals

Tides of thoughts crashing on my shore of anxiety

Sigh

A long hard thought of the human I was now responsible for overwhelmed the calmness I tried to exude

As the tears flowed

The cold from my bedroom windows brushed against my exposed body

I pulled the sheet over my head

Awake from the strangest dream I’d had this week.