Prompt: Sneaking into Church

“Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.”― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses Carrie hadn't gone to church since she was a kid, but recently, whenever her parents came home on Sunday mornings, they acted really weird. Like eyes-blank, sit-on-the-couch-doing-nothing-for-hours, weird. Once, she had even …

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Prompt: What is a Poem?

“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.”― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses A poem is the ultimate portrayal of human emotion. A poem is the most concise, compact organization of thought. What is a poem …

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