Challenge
.to win or not to win.
Winning challenges here are fun. Winning anything can be fun, but when you put not just your work, but also yourself into something you have created, it is such a sweet reward. I have lost, but and especially here on Prose, I have won. So, I would like to know about something in your life you have won and how it felt prior and after. Keep it clean, and tag me because I won't remember to look. I am using some prize money to juice those who have earned perhaps the smallest of wins but have been overjoyed even in something that took hard work for simple acknowledgment. xo
.now i won. (.to win or not to win.)
A year ago I placed third in the Feb. Poet's Playground contest run by a local magazine.
Our Outstanding Secret
In time of war restriction
the women complied,
their ration cards in pocket.
(Some women did hide.)
To raise a victory garden
was helpful indeed,
(while some were sworn to silence
so dire was the need).
To steel oneself to muteness
as “Calutron Girls”,
to monitor a harvest
illusive as pearls;
To race against malfeasance,
no less against time,
OUR women did their damnedest.
Their (dark) lights still shine.
One wouldn't have known I hadn't won or placed second, judging by the joy on my face! (These historical facts will hopefully continue to illuminate intriguing past sacrifices.)