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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 3 - Advanced)
Topic: HOT (08/10/17)
Earth reels and rocks
exploding with emotion

and he left his bed
to check the temperature of the night:
its crashing sounds
whispering limbs
and startled sky

jugular ribbons and white streaks
a cacophony of crescendos.

In spite of storms where monsters
infiltrate thinking
his mind races to days
when good ole mom sprinkled away
childish fears with Holy water
in each bedroom hideaway.

Gaining a toe-hold on the
many precipices of life
attained success and standing
in spite of such
storms confronting him--

now carefully closes the window
longing for past moments
as a child when he raised youthful
lips to the sky
trusting in the purity of rain
descending and gulped hungrily at the
moisture received in the
innocence of life.

Without further fanfare
he stomps across the cold floor
and returns to the bedroom
of his desires; wraps himself in the
comfort of his wife's embrace.
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Loni Bowden-Horn 
08/22/17
The emding of your poem made me smile.

I liked your discriptions. It implied there may be monsters lurking about without cobtinually using the word "monster".

God Bless.
Loni Bowden-Horn 
08/24/17
Congratulations on your first place finish in the advanced catagory.

You placed 11th place overall