Sway
For the Breakup Nonet Challenge
Into your arms I swayed - drunkenly,
high on your love, your poise, your charm;
a promise of a future
that I nearly choked on,
left rolling on my
back, drowning in
my own pride
and your
drug.
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Amanda Starks
Epic fantasy writer, poet, and hopefully soon-to-be novelist who wants to create safe spaces to talk about mental health. Magic, swords, and monsters abound!
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Let me be honest. I am finding this difficult. Now, I like a challenge, a stretch, a bit of an obstacle course. “Write about the decline of the British Empire in the form of a narrative poem in which your protagonist is an artichoke” I read, and flex my fingers. “Write a haiku to evoke the sensation of sibilance using only the first half of the alphabet.” “Well”, I think to myself, “this should be fun.” But “write about a system that isn’t working”? A system that isn’t working? Now? In 2026? ONE system? My favourite system that isn’t working? The sexiest system that isn’t working? The one giving me the most angst day to day? The one giving me the most existential dread? I am, as I say, finding this difficult. I will own that I have contemplated writing a thousand words on why the steady “all on” setting on my fairy lights is the EIGHTH of seven options which must be sequentially activated to get there, because that is a system that some fool came up with and it definitely doesn’t work, and now who is paying the price, eh? But how can I write about my fairy lights when…. When…. When….
By Hannah Moore7 days ago in Humans
Comments (12)
Congratulations on placing in the challenge 🤩.
Oh this is incredible. So well done. "a promise of a future that I nearly choked on," Is so powerful. So glad to see you placed Amanda! Congrats💗
Congratulations! Superb nonet! Really felt the motion in this
Well done Amanda! 🫶🏻🤍🌟👌
I love your nonet - congratulations on your win!
Oh goodness this one hits hard, Amanda. Congratulations on placing
Congrats!
Lovely poem. Congratulations!!
Fabulous nonet!!! Congratulations on the runner up win!!!❤️❤️💕
Wooohooooo congratulations on your win! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Such an intoxicating verse. Well done. <3
Oh, this is very good. Well done.