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sos97
tattoo artist. musician. writer. LGBTQIA and mental health advocate. Queer.
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Challenge of the Month XXX: April
Phenomenal Cosmic Power. You wake up, omnipotent. What happens next? Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to the winner.
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sos97
• 5 reads

omnipotent

omnipotent,

a trance

time is

home-made,

messy

from the

inside

I

make-up-universes

bound by

thought

I think I'm in

a trance

furthest from time

totality, I engulf

myself

infinitely

time is

a trance,

omnipotent

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sos97
• 7 reads

the mask

the comfort I had no longer fits

every iteration of myself exhausted

these days I am squirming and

yelling out to my former self,

punishing them for not sooner realizing

how wrong it felt to exist

the mask will crumble and reform

fit for a new face when I forget

it covers every orifice and

suffocates my hatred

a new flame brews behind my eyes

but only burns them, for I

can’t seem to contain the malice

outward completely.

the comfort I had is gone

every iteration of myself has given up.

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Flipped limerick challenge
We all know limericks. Light, funny, sometimes dirty, AABBA. Time to flip them. Can you express your best serious, dark, or twisted idea while keeping true to the limerick form? Let's take the whimsy out of whimsical!
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sos97 in Micropoetry
• 9 reads

final choice (super dark sorry lol)

the girl had a knife to her throat

alone, miles out on her boat

her mind was ablaze

with a choice to be made

will a hard bloodless body still float?

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sos97
• 4 reads

strobe

in faint, flashing lights

trouble seems afar

as the shade grows, we too

grow in comfort

yet as the lights agitate

and expand, it is clear

our worries are inevitable.

the shorter the string,

the less recoil from the blade

but the lights never seem to disappear

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sos97
• 8 reads

inspired by Waves of Matsushima by Tawaraya Sōtatsu

the waves wrapped around me like fingers

the ones that always pointed out something new

caressing nature in a wave of sound

overwhelming to soft ears

the leaves flutter with the pulse

coming from the slow earth

I want to move with you, earth

for you are full, and I empty

your textures created me

your height inspired me

your depth gave me a place to exist

your detail too immaculate to comprehend

you are the god with no face

emitting baffling complexity

for how long can I sit here in awe?

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Challenge
When I close my eyes
Freestyle whatever comes to mind when you read “when I close my eyes”
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sos97 in Poetry & Free Verse
• 8 reads

when I close my eyes

when I close my eyes

you smile at me

you tell me the things I need to hear

you caress my shoulder with the lightest touch

and kiss me on the forehead

with the most careful intention

when I close my eyes

my face is in your hands

your essence so close to me

I never could lose your smell

so I take a deeper breath

when I close my eyes

you see me for who I am

and you don't look away

you stare through me with gracious eyes

in this euphoria

how could I ever open them again?

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sos97
• 5 reads

intake

in-

describe in

detail

...

not enough

I need more questions

will you

never?

get the full picture

I worry

I am invisible

hardly clear to even myself

how could you

possibly

the

precision

undocumented

unappreciated

but I am still

bleeding from wounds

that have not yet been cut

do you

see them?

do you?

distracted

no -

come back

it is important you see this

no

this

this

nothing is clear

will you

help me?

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Challenge
Delve Even Deeper
All writers know that tragedy, hatred and pain are the easy subjects. So much more difficult to make interesting actual joy, love and satisfaction. Both sides always exist. This challenge to write about what you love about being you. What makes you extraordinary?
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sos97 in Stream of Consciousness
• 19 reads

I like the way I feel

I am

my skin to my skin

the motion soothes

the repetition is euphoric

a moment of silence

heaven for my thoughts

I am

the way purple and orange light bounce off of each other

in solitude

the colors sing to me

a spectrum

when I am comfortable

I am myself

I am creative and focused

and even if only for a while

my divergence is holy to me

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Challenge
write about hands
this is me begging for the romanticism of something SO underrated
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sos97
• 8 reads

hands

I sense you

through your hands

the work you do

the things you feel

the way you touch me

is like an encyclopedia

I caress your memories

I grab onto your fears

I embrace your craft

your touch is

energy everlasting

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Love’s Sorrow
Write your experience with heartbreak, any form and format. Let your pain bleed on the page, shout it from the rooftops or whisper it in a dark corner of the bar. Let it all out and realize you’re not alone, we’ve all been there and will always be there for one another.
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sos97
• 23 reads

it’s actually a new relationship

pathetic. horizontal and hungry

I stained my new blanket with three days

worth of mucus

a lingering fire in my eyes

and a hovering shadow on my spirit

finally to be lifted by a new authenticity

and mutual freedom

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