Eggplant-purple on the highway—
Carefree on the crescent, California coast,
Little do our parents know: we’re teenaged spirit chasing woes with phantom weed and gumdrop ghosts.
In our Mitsubishi Porsche Eclipse, we are young and we
Pretend we speak, and hear, and
See no evil (while we) float off Earth with moonshinebeams into the Sun...
Every now and then, I reminisce about our time in that Eclipse (and how we) got on fire’s last nerve, just for fun.
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-Gina C. 🧚♀️✨
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Gina C.
Poet | Author | Architect of Worlds
Sowing stories rooted in culture, origin, metamorphosis, resilience, language & love via fantasy, myth, magical realism & botanical prose
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The Ritual of Winter Challenge Winners
Welcome to the Winners Announcement for The Ritual of Winter challenge. This prompt focused on winter rituals and the meaning that settles into them over time. The top pieces stay grounded in ordinary acts and repeated routines, letting winter shape the work through pace, attention, and restraint.
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Going around reading trying to learn about acrostic poetry. Another stroll down memory lane, wonderful acrostic. Nicely Done!!
Love the picture, and the topic you choose for this poem, teenage love .
I think of twilight with the purple
I could feel the wonder and invincibility of youth bleeding through in this. Made me nostalgic :) and when did I last do anything 'just for fun' ?
Not me thinking something entirely different when I saw eggplant 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I loved the angle you went for here in this entry. Very clever! Loved your beautiful Acrostic!
It reminds me of a story I heard from VINwiki. This guy used to have a Mitsubishi Eclipse and while driving with his girlfriend, he blew past a police officer hiding behind a ramp going 140mph, and after a minute, quickly got off the highway and pulled into a gas station where they waited for the police cruisers to pass by before taking the back roads to drive home. Lowkey, kind of reminds me when I raced a coworker after an early morning shift. I was binging "Wangan Midnight" anime and was thinking "Wouldn't it be cool to have a storyline where people are all on the highway getting to their place of work, and it's called "Morning Stockers." It shows who's saved up money for cars, who can buy what they want, and who's stuck with what they got. Sure, some kid in a Ford Taurus might not be able to compete with a business man's Porsche 911, but that doesn't mean that he can't try." Like, there's a magical freedom that having a vehicle gives You.
Oh wow. This is amazing and I'm reminiscing about teenage days and stupidity.
Oh lord this made me nostalgic for something I suspect I never really was.
Great Great:) and I'm so sorry too i have been so MIA
Love it!!! 💕❤️❤️