dctezcan
"Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how!" "Be the reason someone smiles today!"
"Sighs are air and go to the air. Tears are water and they go to the sea, tell me..."
"...when love is forgotten, do you know where it goes?" Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Poetry
Ended September 12, 2024 • 7 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand..."
"...but we must build as if the sand were stone." Jorge Luis Borges
Poetry or prose.
Ended September 11, 2024 • 11 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"To fall in love is to create a religion..."
"...that has a fallible god."
Jorge Luis Borges
Poetry or prose
Ended September 10, 2024 • 10 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was."
Ian McEwan, Enduring Love.
Prose or poetry.
Ended August 28, 2024 • 12 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
"Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!" (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote) Poetry or prose.
Ended August 27, 2024 • 8 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Poetry
Ended August 26, 2024 • 6 Entries • Created by dctezcan
I dreamed I was a butterfly...
"flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?" Zhuangzi
Poetry or prose.
Ended August 14, 2024 • 4 Entries • Created by dctezcan
This is love...
"to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet." Rumi
Poetry, please.
Ended August 12, 2024 • 5 Entries • Created by dctezcan in Poetry & Free Verse
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane..."
"...by those who could not hear the music." (Friederich Nietzsche) Poetry or prose
Ended August 7, 2024 • 5 Entries • Created by dctezcan
The biggest hole in my life...
...was left by whom? Or by what? Poetry or prose.
Ended July 29, 2024 • 11 Entries • Created by dctezcan
The door
Your character wakes up in the middle of the night. They heard something. When they open their eyes, there is a door in the middle of their room. A voice says "if you open the door, it will take you to any time you wish..." What adventure awaits? Is there a catch? Tell us the story. Prose, please.
Ended July 24, 2024 • 7 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Slaying monsters
"Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome." Margaret Atwood
Poetry or prose.
Ended July 22, 2024 • 10 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"I am I, and I wish I weren't."
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932). Poetry or Prose.
Ended July 19, 2024 • 8 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Hidden Things
"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic." The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde. Tell me a story... poetry or prose.
Ended July 15, 2024 • 8 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Loved or understood?
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."George Orwell, 1984
Prose or poetry.
Ended July 14, 2024 • 10 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Nostalgia v Anger
Both can be powerful forces. Which is more dangerous? Why? Prose, please.
Ended July 8, 2024 • 11 Entries • Created by dctezcan
The game of life
Everyone has a public life, a private life and a secret life. Poetry or prose.
Ended July 7, 2024 • 5 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Alone
"Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym." (Stephen King) Prose or poetry.
Ended July 2, 2024 • 13 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"Stars and shadows ain't good to see by." Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
Whatever that means to you - poetry or prose.
Ended June 30, 2024 • 8 Entries • Created by dctezcan