Challenge
Summer-into-Fall Prose. Wrap-up Challenge
In five haikus, tell a story about the cycle of life. Start with being born, then so forth. Because this is absorbing the entirety of all Prose. Challenges until October's start, we're giving the winner $250. Winner is decided by a combination of likes, and our panel. And...Go.
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5 haiku - by rule and by wrote
Before there is light:
the spring life forms first
in the warm, dark womb.
Enter cold, first breath!
Then embraced in the summer
warmth of a mother.
Like spring, endless youth
dallies on careless and free -
yet fleeting and rare.
The chill creeps in, sly-
when the leaves of innocence
begin to turn brown.
How long abided,
the frost of bitter knowledge-
taken to the grave.