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This Book Is Closed But It Never Opened

3min Write Poetry Contest Sponsor-Matt Caliri here I am escorted by doom and courted by gloom it's a sad predicament like being a crab without pinchers so to speak but I keep moving at the bottom of this sea ... of what life with the bottom dwellers feeding off the scraps and avoiding traps but I'm unbalanced and defenseless and see myself as being a predator's dinner I have no backdoor or avenue of escape Life isn't very worthy So I'm unworthy of having my soul saved And being of this existence I feel down but I'm seventeen stories up I'm low but I'm high at the moment I pray ... bless me Father for I have sinned So At the next low tide At the next full moon, next impulse I'll jump before being eaten I'll leave a splash There are no more stories

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Connie Pachecho

Date: 9/6/2024 6:06:00 PM

The beauty of speed-writing a 3-minute poem is that for me there are no inhibitions. It's writing with raw emotions. Almost like being intoxicated and not worrying about the content. Or what the reader might think. I'll be honest the framework of this poem was done in less than 3 minutes but the editing took about another 7 minutes or so.

Connie Pachecho
Date: 9/11/2024 8:49:00 AM

I also purposely (or) try to write with intrigue and wordplay. For example is the writer intimating that there are no more stories to tell (last line), like pages in a book, or is the writer describing the distance between the 17th-floor stories up to the ground, which would then have a distance of zero stories?