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Challenge of the Month VI: April
Something to Lose. What does it feel like to cherish something or someone with every fiber of your being? Is it terrifying, as though any second it could disappear? Or is it a source of comfort, solid ground to stand on, an anchor? Write about having something to lose. $100 purse to the winner. The best entries will be shared with publishers. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
MikeSmiff
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A Fleeting of Beauty

Walked across a pretty flower, thought I'd hold it in my hand

So I knelt down as to grab it, but the flower turned to sand

Tried to carve it as a castle, walls and towers, gates and moat

But the tide washed it away, I had to chase it down by boat

So I dove below the tide, to the bottom of the sea

To restore my pretty castle, try to quell its tragedy

But the castle was no more, and in its place a wooden chest

So I swam back to shore, inside I found a golden nest

Filled with golden little eggs, and so I bought a golden cage

With a golden little perch, just like a golden birdy stage

Though the eggs they never hatched, no they burst into a flame

And although there were no ashes, all the smoke I did contain

In a sky light blue balloon, but I think I'll save my string

Can't try to tie the flower down. Balloon. Flower. Same thing

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