Bonus Post: Flash Poetry Challenge #1

For this challenge, we started by simply choosing the title for a poem. Then everyone had three minutes to write an original poem to match the title. No starting over or changing the words after the fact. What you see is what you get!
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Challenge Title #1: Silence

Stephen:

In the dark,

I missed my fan

Its comforting electric hum

I missed the crickets

The soundless void is stark

And the crickets here seem dumb

Devoid of home

At this silent sleepover

Surrounded by supposed friends

I truly feel alone

Nick:

Silence

A secret alliance

That subtle contrivance;

What you didn't say is

A sort of subliminal violence

Sarah:

If there is one thing

I avoid above all else

It is letting my world become soft enough

To hear my own heartbeat

Or the space between each heartbeat

The sound of it is like fear

The feel of it is like internal bleeding

Sometimes late at night

When it's too quiet

I go to the grocery store just

so I can hear the tired announcements

of the graveyard shift

But I quickly buy a cigarette

So I can go back home again

And be alone.

x