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๐๐ธ๐พ๐ซ๐ต๐ฎ ๐๐ฌ๐ป๐ธ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฌ
[ฬ ฬฒS]uffering silently, trapped in my room, tethered precariously by the airwaves of Zoo[ฬ ฬฒM]
[ฬ ฬฒI]solation and solitude can quickly destroy us, they fuel fits of madness and extreme paranoi[ฬ ฬฒA]
[ฬ ฬฒL]anguishing, lost in lifeโs lonely confines, I wander the labyrinth of my teetering min[ฬ ฬฒD]
[ฬ ฬฒE]ntombed, I hear voices โ they whisper my name, and they tell me Iโm worthless then laugh at my pai[ฬ ฬฒN]
[ฬ ฬฒN]umbed by dark silence, imprisoned at home, detached from a world I face all alon[ฬ ฬฒE]
[ฬ ฬฒC]OVID lockdown[ฬ ฬฒS]
[ฬ ฬฒE]pidemic of lonesomenes[ฬ ฬฒS]
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FPS: The Last Flame Challenge Winners
Welcome to our first Winners Announcement of the year and to the final challenge in the Fall Poetry Series. The Last Flame invited writers to sit with endings, using fire as a central image to consider what remains when something burns out: ash, warmth, memory, silence, or the faint promise of what comes next. The strongest pieces treated endings as gradual rather than sudden, allowing them to flicker, dim, and linger.
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Wow! This is a great take, RM. Not only a clever arrangement that must have given you a headache but relatable as well. Very successful and a winner in my book.
Awesome poem. This deserve top story for sure. Very creative. Excellent music for your poem
Incredible work!
Well done..
Now this is special, great thought out in this and it works so well Congratulation on leaderboard placement
Amazing how you wrote this to spell out silence at the start and madness at the ends. Very relatable musings and thank you for bringing our thoughts in Covid lockdown back in the spotlight, reminding us that we need each other and we can thrive better when we are not alone.
Yay RM!!! Congrats on Honour mention for most discussed story!! ๐ Still in love with this format!!
Back to say congratulations for making this week's leaderboard's honorable mention for most discussed stories! Told you this double acrostic was amazing!
Well done, RM! Youโve captured an all too relatable experience in this
Dang! Nice creativity! Wouldn't have thought about doing that myself. Awesome job!
R-bud - Everything you do is so interesting to me; and relatable. I always look forward to what you put down - Other than your 'Horror' fables that is ~ Light to Dark Moods via, Rob ~ Many of us have experienced this kind of isolation; the reality is hard to face at times. As former Valley Boys ~ You didn't Gag-me-with-a Spoon with this one. - With Respect - J-bud.in.l.a.
That reverse acrostic is literal madness (pun intended)!! So brilliant, I'm envious I didn't think of this!!! RM, literally stunned by the complexity of this piece! You gave us a double acrostic, without losing rhyme scheme, rhythm or messaging!! You brilliant human!!
Brilliantly done, with the double Acrostic!! And such a raw reflection on a deeply difficult time. Bravo!
Oh yes. I was blessed with a partner and two kids in my bubble. Alone would be no laughing matter.
I love your take on this challenge. It was all too true, for many of us. The reality of being separated from other people is a stark one. Loved this.
This is great, and so clever. Well done.
Very clever. I should steal this idea. Great "bookends" acrostic.
This is epic. I love this and itโs way up my alley and yeah maybe a bit too relatable at times. Brilliant RM! ๐ ๐ ๐
Brilliant! Best Iv'e read so far.. A worthy contender, you have amplified the brief, all the while igniting flow and sense to the Silent Madness.
Whoaaaa, as if Acrostics aren't difficult enough, you made double!! This was so brilliantly executed!
Wow, I loved how you made it related to the Covid! And the idea of a double acrostic is genius and incredibly hard, well done!
A double acrostic within one poem - so brilliant and ingenious, really impressive. Your poem embodies the frustration and loneliness that was and even still, is truly felt.
I see what you did there, lol. Great job, loved the extra level you added!
Raising the challenge stakes with this one, RM! Clever and contrarian take on the challenge. Silence as a killer of minds!