Writing Prompt
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Submitted by Myra Herrington
"Just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread."
Write a story or poem which contains this line.
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On a bitterly cold Christmas Eve in the bustling city, the streets were adorned with festive lights and the cheerful hum of holiday songs. Yet, beneath this veneer of joy, there were those for whom the season was just another battle for survival. Among them were two men—Daniel and Sam, two beggars with nothing but the clothes on their backs and each other.
Daniel, an older man with a weathered fa...
Just a beggar
telling another beggar
where to find bread
No—— a baker beggar
showing a basic beggar
how to bake bread
wait….
give a man bread
and he’ll make an air sandwich
teach a man to bread
and he’ll bread forever
if you give man to a bread
it’ll make a man sammich
if you teach a bread to man
it’ll run for president
Yeah, t...
Enslaved to the dirt
From the moment of birth.
Do we only live to die
And unite with the earth?
A spec on the canvas.
A fraction of infinity.
What’s the point to all this
When it ends so quickly?
We wander this world,
With a hole in our chest.
Can we pack this infinite void
With the things we love best?
Once we think we’re more full than others
We pride ourselves to help the ill fed.
But aren’t...
Wisdom is parasitical
People are far too critical
Nothing is to be done
For none of us have won
If one of us gives up and starves
If we don’t make peace and share
How can we proudly bear
The spoils of our smarts
The coinage of our hearts
When others too fight the same
It’s selfish to survive
When together we could thrive
Our defenses override
Must set barriers aside
Opening minds can open ey...
I walked down the road as casually as I could manage. My anxiety was rampaging through my head as each person brushed past me.
There are too many of them. Too many, too many, too many.
I was diagnosed with social anxiety when i was only little. Now it has heightened and become worse.
The only person I talk to is my boyfriend because he understand why i am the way i am. My mother doesn’t know....
His tummy rumbles as his stomach is empty, starved he gives his last can of tuna to his dog as he knew the dog needed it more than him. As the man starts to sleep, he gets woken up by a man waving bread at him and telling him to check the dumpster for some extra bread. He checks, a gold mine....
It was rough in the streets. Headlights like markers highlighting the incessant drizzle while rats scuttled away from the noise of screeching tyres and car horns and the smell of burning fuel. Dirt-smeared and cold-chapped fingers finding solace in the crackling sound of a dumpster fire. Hair-framed lips almost touching wool-domed heads. Gloved-hands shaking gloveless hands. An outsider crossing t...
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