SHORT: Contest Challenge

S uccinct 

H ook

O f

R apid

T hought

Ideal panel look-alikes

We see it in film all the time, a brief snippet encompassing a complete story. We also see it in poetry. Within a newer art, we find it in flash fiction, and the even more condensed "drabbles". As a slow creature to modern crazes, I've decided to finally try my hand at 100 word perfection. (--In a conglomeration of  poetic drabble-dom.) Join me. Create your own. Add a comment with a link back to your blog, then post your literary masterpiece in your own space. (Or add it as a comment here if you don't have a blog.) A unique panel of 5 judges will pick the best of the best and award (drum-roll) the Drabble Poet badge (for your blog/webpage etc) AND a whopping $5 gift card to Amazon! I know, you can't believe it, right? Five Dollars!! Contest ends September 1st.


Let the Drabble-Poets commence!

Dizzily dancing, she twirled the stage. 
One pirouette, two pirouette, finish with a bow.
Then up she came for the crowd's laud
Greeted by streetlight and graffiti-ed walls. 

Stood lone ballerina, all conundrum and dread
Studio behind, home of the arts, an infamous wreck.

Out stepped a stranger with ominous look.
"I've longed to see thee, lady fair of the stage."
"I've longed to see what I can't, for my age."
 He offered a hand, strange contraption therein.

"This be the means of thy travel. I fear 
Ye never shall return to the then from the here.

You are mine."

Mothers

This one goes out to mine:

She must have known the hours she spent

Laboring each day

Would yield such a marvelous legacy

To keep on in her way.

She must have known the time she gave

Would manifest divine

In the lives of her children, or children’s children,

A heritage of mine.

She must have known the years she dedicated

Denying her own desires

Though painful and tiring, overwhelming to bear

Would, her child, inspire.

Yet in some small hour she must have questioned

If her efforts would yield success.

And then she must have known deep in her heart

God loves the selfless mother.

And so do I.