COMPETITION PROMPT

Write a poem on the theme of 'Lost and found'.

Stalemate

Give a snail a carrot

Laugh at it if you will

Alight with life and laughter

Tickle your hubris

And tell it you are better than the snail

Better than what you step on

But watch it eat without consuming

And writhe yourself to death

Forevermore


Let a dog lick your inner palm

Because it wants your hand and

Loves you so

Feel the way your nerves shoot through your body

The desperate dog

Is it pity you feel?

Do you look down

Or do you desire

To love so purely

Is it envy?


Yuo sea teh man lerning hiis first

Languayge

Ande in all certanty

He struggels

But

You understand

As if the words were all correct

And he shines through each

Deliberate mistake

And you see the color of his art

Reflected on the

Ink of his pen


Corner yourself

Stalemate

In your human kingliness

Watch the struggle for more

Inherited by each living creature

And in your wish to feel more human


You laugh


What joyous foolishness to learn how to eat a carrot


To love without a care in the world


And to be wrong with the unique precision of the human soul


Become Stillwater when you look upon the change in the world as if it’s nothing


The different dimensions of life as beneath you


Stalemate yourself in your own conventions


And find the moves without progress beseech you


And lose before you even begin to find


What winning is


It’s a stalemate


Of your own design


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