Living this thing,
you can't turn it off,
you can't
in disintegrating waves of patience;
the fiction fix.
Upended plans come apart
in loveless dust,
could they last another time
if they called
on you.
Again, again, again
subversion and undoing
bring to ruin those
least likely versions
and their frailty.
Solo in disrepair;
noiselessness fallen
to pieces...
can you last, can you last,
can you last?
Another time, another time;
will it ever find you
in the absence of light,
its duration is darkest
in the hush.
About the Creator
Dennis James
Here is a far less than stellar assemblage of random, distracted, tormented, abstract Outlaw Poetry from some invisible old inkwell hidden in some dusty basement somewhere in a parallel universe....#OutlawInCharge
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Congratulations to Morgan Christy Rickards for their winning Whispering Woods story, Guardian at the Gate. Morgan has been a Vocal creator since February 2021, and this is their first time placing in Challenge — well done, starting with a win! Guardian at the Gate draws evocatively from Welsh tales of the Cantre'r Gwaelod, a lost sunken kingdom between the forest and the sea. Heledd’s dangerous adventure pulls her towards the water but her spirit is anchored in the woods: Morgan’s writing is atmospheric and exciting.
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