Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative
Challenge #068. I chose Pic #2.
Here’s where the image took me.
Tag: Darkness
RDP Thursday: waver
Today at RDP, leapingtoes asks us
to get creative with the word
‘waver’. Here’s my take.
The Climb
Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #11.
Our inspiration word is “overcome”.
Here’s where my thoughts went.
Quiet Desperation
Written for OLWG #418.
The prompts appear below.
This is my story.
Fade To Black
Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille #202
– Hello Darkness –
where we are asked to embrace the dark
in 44 poetic words.

Death creeps
in the night,
hiding in the
darkest of places
where junkies
shoot up
in the alleys
by dim light.
But no one
is around
to see
the relief
on their faces
when they fade
to black
and softly give up
the fight.
NAR©2024
44 Words
This is Metallica with “Fade To Black”, live from Pinnacle Bank Arena, Lincoln, Nebraska
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