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Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 6:20 pm

Hello and welcome to our first contest! Please make sure you read the rules and contest info on the contest subforum before entering.

This month, as always, we have two different prompts for you-- a phrase and a photo. You may chose to write about either or both if you like, however only ONE entry per person may win each month.

There is a gold prize in store for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners, so do your best!
**note: We must get entries from at least three different people in order to have gold prizes, so enter your writing everyone!!

Have fun and good luck!

Prompt #1: "The beginning in the end"

Prompt #2:

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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:00 pm

Dream as if you'll live forever...

Well, no one's posted anything for the contest yet, so I guess I'll do a little writing of my own to perhaps get the ball rolling for the rest of you. Of course, my entree is not for the contest, but simply for fun!

This is in response to prompt 2, and is based on real events in my life, and is in fact what inspired the image for prompt 2 to begin with (no, I did not draw/paint it. I only did some editing to the original image using a website called Polyvore. I do not take any credit for the wonderful artwork itself). Anyway, here it is:

“No, no. Please god, not again” she cried out into the darkness. Sleep had evaded her again. The pain was returning, and with it came the sickness. This illness had plagued her every night for months, and no cure could be found. She moaned loudly as the nausea grew more intense, and warm tears began pouring down her cheeks. “Please, no, I can’t do this again, please…” she pleaded to no one.
Out from the cold and lonely despair of the room came a warm voice. “Honey?” he asked, groggy and just coming out of sleep.
“I’m sick again” she sobbed, her voice cracking in discomfort. Half asleep he took her hand in his.
“I’m here for you” he said gently. She slid herself closer to him in the bed, and laid her head on his chest. His presence gave her inner comfort, but her body still raged against her. Her tears began to fall faster and her crying grew louder until she could barely catch her breath.
“Please, please make it stop! I can’t do this! I can’t do it, please!” her desperation growing ever stronger.
With one hand he grasped her hand tightly, and rubbed her back gently with the other. “You’re strong, you can do this” he encouraged, his nightshirt now soaked from her tears. She shook her head, “I can’t, I can’t. Oh God I just want it to be over.”
“It will be over soon. Just hang on a little longer”
He held her for hours, as he did every night. Exhausted, and dejected, he still would not let her go until she fell asleep.
Finally, her tears began to slow and her breathing became calmer and less erratic. He sighed in relief. Sleep had granted her a short reprieve from her agony. He wanted so much to take away her pain. He longed to dry her tears and see her beautiful smile again. She was breaking apart and there was nothing he could do to stop it. ‘Still,’ he thought to himself ‘even if I can’t stop her from falling apart, at least I can always be there to help pick up the pieces’

...live as if you'll die today

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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 1:02 pm

heres my entry for the contest! rofl

"The beginning in the end"

your shining smile really is like love
words you speak are the only ones i hear
you give me nothing but amity
peace forever with you seems perfect
your love shines all acorss earth
i proclaim that your love is only mine
i find delight in the goodness of you
life without you i can't imagine
but its the begining of the end for us
cause i dont think i can handle all this love at once
goodbye begining hello the end

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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 9:43 pm

Might as well throw in some of my piece of work; A piece of poetry for Prompt 2

I am but a fractured soul
Death now comes and takes its toll
Built upon a thousand lies
Transcendence between earth and sky

Embrace now the ice and cold
Unravel forth a truth untold
The darkness of my very core
Bound in sin forevermore

Look upon the scarlet night
A rising phoenix amidst in flight
Spread the wings that will redeem
To forge reality from a dream

I am but a darkness that could extinguish a thousand suns
With many deeds not easily undone
Yet you reach out with your embrace
Denying darkness, fear, and hate

I have come to break the chains
No more sorrow, no more pain
Like a flame ignited in the night
A shining star with its dim light

Know now the emotion love
Freedom like a soaring dove
Freed from a darkened soul
Bloom anew like a flower full

Free from corruptions blight
A second chance, a second life
Unbound from a darkness within
Leaving all but..... a monument to all your sins

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