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Mirror You, Mirror Me
We are so rarely seen as we really are. Mirrors only reflect the reversal of our image. Imagine the world in which your reverse self in the mirror inhabits. Allow your mirror self to completely embody the dark side of your nature that you would never actualize in this reality. Don't hold back. Be honest with your darkness. Change your name if necessary. Win goes to whoever excites the animus the most.
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um in Fiction

Mirror Me

Mirror,

you

are right,

we grow to live

with our Ghost

all in parallel universe

wash and wear

rinse and repeat

we blow kisses

into the wind

upon that Narcissus train

of moving things

...Life...

...goes on...

but we are always 17

or whatever age

it was

we became

unhinged

and realization

opened

to us

like a photo album

or a needle

on a record

and drew

the mental picture

of Everything

as burial...

leaving its

dinosaurs

upon our chests

and we answer

with form

and structure

as poetry

as essay

in silence

like the Concentrics

on a tree

or

Stratigraphic

soil testing

where we can see

eras of our Life

all these things

mirror, you

as mute

accomplice

hide and see

Challenge
Cupid's Arrow
Haiku (5-7-5)
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Beau & Arrow

this won't hurt a bit

in ink, Cupid dips the nib

love indelible

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Challenge
"Listen...
"...--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?" (Mary Oliver) Poetry or Prose
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Calling it a Life

Listen...

--do you hear it?

Calling,

in sympathy,

a cacophony of breaths?

breath on breath on breath on breath

Sweet as fennel, living death

one pulls from the air,

what another has left

And we all share.

Challenge
"In love, one and one...
...are one." Jean-Paul Sartre Poetry
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Not Knowing the Difference

I look at my Love, with deference...

" You and I will always be Friends, right? "

Challenge
(: Pencils Don't Bend :)
Pick an artwork of any genre and on that inspiration write something that reflects back to some real or imagined character trait of the artist that created that piece. Form of your choice.
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The Fin

Twain, an art

sees a void

(the grey space 'mist)

betwixt living souls

Twain, persons

write averse

(as poetic prose)

Twain, a rite

plays with words

(common err's)

Twain must know

what results

(what dost result)

Challenge
I Thought It Went Away
Write about something you thought was gone for good but wasn't. This is up for interpretation. It can be good or bad.
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Coming of Age

In my mind I'm holding on

so many moments

tread lightly

hand in hand

though law

insists

we're big kids now

and that sort of thing

is frowned upon

but I am

still,

walking

so many paces behind...

with your hand in mine.

Challenge
And then...
Fall for something, strange or ordinary... form of your choice.
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Do Not Open

unlatched

to fall,

is a letting go

the foot leaves

the tree stems

stimming us

with a wobbling

fidget cannot replace

but does, asked or axeless

with that maddest intent

to hold on, to hold off, to

holler bloodlet, labour,

holler jaundiced dying

holler onyx, Blackbox theatre

holler fake fire! immolation

the trunk in flames

full of faith, knotted

with note of warning,

Signed "Pandora," closing

Challenge
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin
Poetry
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um in Poetry & Free Verse

Only People.

In isolation

it is They.

They the scattered

puzzle's parts

that lay

obscuring one

another overturned

upside down, sideways

in glances

a mess

we'd say.

Catching a glass

reflection

the taste bitter

pleasant, ruddy.

I deserve that reprimand

burning my tongue.

The tableau idyllic,

full cups, steaming

no piece missing

the scene.

Only people.

Challenge
Haiku of Fearlessness
Haiku: Write a haiku that depicts the idea of fearlessness.
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______________

the horizon line

barefoot and empty handed

night swan somersault

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Challenge
The Seasoning
...a haiku on change and weather...
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S’mores

Autumn turns, holds out

the empty plate of Winter

crumbs swept in, bonfire

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