We lay on the grassy field by the park, gazing up at the starry night sky. "It's beautiful, isn't it?", she says, unmoving. "Yeah," I mumble. "Someday I want to live among the stars," she said. And in a sense, she did, but not in the way we ever thought.

Challenge

Define Poetry using Prose Essay Format Only. No Fiction. 75 - 150 words. Mass tagged posts will call for automatic disqualification.

EmeraldStardust

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More Than Ink and Text

Poetry is more than a genre among the several others. Poetry is our thoughts, our feelings, our dreams, our hopes ... poetry can be anything you feel inside you. In some cases, poetry is more meaningful than other genres because the purpose of poetry is to inspire and express our feelings. Genuine poets can make us feel what they feel, and they can show us their pain, their happiness, and any other emotions they have. Poetry in its truest form isn't just ink on paper or text on a screen. True poetry is an adventure, it's a world that the author has created for us.

Poetry guides us, it inspires us, and it makes us feel what we thought we never could feel. The beauty of poetry is that we can all create it if we have passion and true emotion.

Challenge

Who's ready for another 15-worder?! Here it is: Say something about yourself from the perspective of an inanimate object. Compliments and insults are equally encouraged.

EmeraldStardust in Comedy

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Mirror Image

She cries, smiles, and frowns at her reflection. I've seen every emotion in her face.

Challenge

Write a horror story in two sentences.

“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...”---Stephen King

EmeraldStardust in Horror & Thriller

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Don’t Open Your Eyes

All night, I had been having strange dreams about a man pleading to me, "Don't open your eyes". I awoke with a start to find the man in my dream standing next to my bed, revealing his inhuman claws covered in blood as he said, "I warned you."