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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First Steps of the Forest Patriarch
Spindly little legs
Wobbling through the meadow
Wide eyes full of soul
Now no spots are found
On the cedar coat which gleams
Legs sturdy with glee
Around you prance
Bear your budding horns with pride
They will grow mighty
The disgraced buck flees
Your fierce eyes, watch from afar
You have won the herd
Your life ends too soon
Buckshot seeps into the wound
Proud head now a prize.