By Brian Elrix Laboring to beats of inspiration. Accompanied by a jazz riff of poetic eccentricity. Floundering in a sea of endless rejection the horizon offering no rescue. Now you are one of the martyred enraptured by beauty. Denied an audience by academic prejudice and Ivory tower complicity.     #darkpoetsclub #smallspacedeepimpact #50wordchallenge

By Leanna Webbe Visits to hospitals. Delays. Revelations. Discomforting conversations. Sunsets. Knowing we can never go back. Hoping time will stretch out. Soft denial. "She's gone."   #darkpoetsclub #smallspacedeepimpact #50wordchallenge

By Maggie Elliott She weighed less than a bag of Tate and Lyle She should’ve stayed inside me another while They took her away, never having been held Praying for her, my heart swelled Same day they told me what I didn’t want to hear ‘Very sorry love, but she’s no longer here.’   #darkpoetsclub #smallspacedeepimpact #50wordchallenge