patchwork quilt

pieces of yesterday

undone threads

frayed, threadbare

light filters through holes

warmth dissipated

scraps of love

scrubbed bare

colorless, faded

can’t grasp

worn memories

of our past

I stand silently

as sinews of sibilant sounds

seek release

from pin pricked lingering light

in shriveled womb

of yesterday, tiptoeing

through stagnant stillness

of waveless waters.

Vibrations violate

pristine peaceful vapors

as loneliness lingers

with absentee light.

Aqueous eyes ache

in abject aloneness.

Life’s puzzles loom

as they linger

mesmerizing

the bold moon, waning

immersed in the halo

of daunting truth

reflecting fleetingly

on fallen fallow seeds.

Tangled trails wind

ethereal shadows

of thorns, unraveled

aisles leading nowhere

seagulls screech

taunting tales in dirges

Death dives deeply, delving

into expressionless existence.

Good morning, Prosers,

For this week’s Monday Motivation we are bringing you a brand-new challenge.

This will be a monthly challenge, aptly named, Prose Challenge of the Month.

Each month, we will set you all a prompt within a Portal of our choosing. We then give you the entire duration of the challenge to create your literary splendor. After the challenge expires, the team will then take a look at specific data - number of reads, likes, reposts, and comments - along with reading the entries to ensure superior content. From there, we will choose 15 pieces to be included in our new Prose Book of the Month. These books will be made up of your content, and will be sold on Prose for 250 coins. To find out whether your entry made it, you will have to grab yourself a copy.

So, what do you get in return?

If you are one of the lucky 15, you will receive 5% royalties for the lifetime of the book. This means non-Partners can also earn themselves some Prose coin, as anyone can enter. We think this is a new, quick, easy, and exciting way to become a published, professional author, and what better way to do that than with Prose‽

Let’s take a look at the first Challenge of the Month of many:

Prose Challenge of the Month #1: Write about losing your innocence. Fifteen entries will be featured in a Prose Original Book of the Month, whereby each winner will take 5% lifetime royalties. You must purchase the book to discover its authors, who will be determined by objective data (reads, likes, reposts, comments) and by team vote to ensure reader satisfaction. When sharing to social media, please use the hashtags “itslit,” “getlit,” and “ProseChallenge.”

Share your lost innocence with us, now.

What better Monday Motivation than a brand-new challenge and a way to earn money and bragging rights when you become a professional author?

Until next time, Prosers,

Prose.

I made my bed with satin leaves

And slept in natures mansion

Drank the river

And found my dreams

Cradled in the branches

There once was a girl

Who was stupid

Got her ass shot by that

Fucker named Cupid

But to that dickhead's

Surprise

She quickly grew

Wise

And ran off with his wings

That she looted