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Write a short poem (under 200 words) about this cat! Ends at the top of page 2, or Feb 1st, whichever comes first.

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[StormSerpent]

username: StormSerpent
name: dusky crow crying for help (Crow)
prompt:

Shadows creep and peep in the night
Wails can be heard within the halls
I know the truth, there’s no end in sight
Screams echo and bounce off the walls

The ones we’ve that we’ve left behind
Those that are never coming back
They’re still here and stuck on rewind
Finding out is like a wakeup smack

Mother, father so lost and scared
Brother, sister in eternal sadness
Why couldn’t they have been spared
I feel like i’m melting into madness

Too much, too much i know everything
Why didn’t I just hide in the dark
Always safe under its protective wing
When you’re curious stamp out the spark

It hurts so badly I can't even focus
Lately i’ve been tired getting no sleep
Dreams, no. nightmares so ferocious
I’m in so far, so much, way too deep

[TheSongOfTheStars]

username: TheSongOfTheStars
name: Na'leih
prompt:
Drift like a prophet down through the sacrilegious land
Breathe in the gold dust and the sand
She chokes on her dreams and hopes
Sing like a songbird on Armageddon's dawning
Receive the wayfarer like long lost brethren
She has but a hollow body to house a heavy soul
There's a pressure on the strings, if and when they snap someone will have much to regret
Trying to fight fate, trying to change the words when the ink has already set
Sing silver toned lullabies to grace the open ears of the young
Spit poison and corruption into the feast laid out before your kingdom
She justifies herself in the reflection of the water
She finds her reason in the dark gleam of night's folly
Oh there is an escape but she has turned her back on it
Oh there is a beam that reaches her face but she has only to close her eyes to dismiss it

[West]

username: Westsparrow
name: Halvar (Hal)
prompt:
He who keeps himself alone,
What secrets do you hide?
Oh what is that glimmer shone
behind those dual eyes?
You still claim to only speak
not lies, but truth itself.
Despite the way you seem to keep
an expertise in stealth.
You boast and yet you speak in lore,
Tall tales of buried gold
Stories you tell, for fools, what bore!
Myths overused and old!
But I believe you hide a truth
behind the tales you tell.
I seek it, yet I am no sleuth
I do not know you well.
Would one see if they observe
a past of so much more
than the lonely one who serves
at the bar along the moor?

[Jantzi01]

username: Jantzi01
name: Ravenclaw
prompt:
Deep in the night,
Two eyes peek out,
Fleeting and scared,
And full of doubt,
She sneaks through the dark,
Searching for her answers,
She slips through with a grace,
That would rival the most talented dancers.
She slips between shadows,
Before coming on a clearing,
A giant stone in the center,
And several others cheering,
She slowly emerges from the bushes,
Shyly glancing around,
She glances at the others,
Before returning her gaze to the ground,
She debates going back,
And disappearing into the night,
But someone appeared,
Who made her world feel like light,
He showed her around,
And they hid in the gale,
Before he said the words,
'My name is Snaketail'.

[Wet Bread]

username: Wet Bread
name: Banshee
prompt:
Born in a happy place
With parents and siblings to chase
soon it was ripped away
her family were turned to prey
so she ran to an unfamiliar space

She ventured into a glowing cave
filled with stones and flowers like a grave
Exhausted and afraid, she went sleep
When she woke, she rose with a leap
She was feeling less than brave

She was surrounded by cats she didn't know
They looked at her as though
She'd stolen something dear
She backed up at their leer
They quickly moved to make the first blow

She was filled with terror as she unleashed a scream
She watched, astounded, as the cats flew downstream
Out of the cave, and past the pond
They went further and further beyond
She wondered if this were a dream

The cats soon found her again
She thought they'd seek revenge
Instead they welcomed her
gave a new name to her
and home with her own den

[ataraxic_gone]

username: ataraxic_king
name: TopazFang
prompt:
A shy figure in the shadow of night
Pelt made of dark shadows that twist and turn
One eye pale silver moons rays then one bright
Hue of the sun that through shadows does burn

"What makes your heart heavy with the quiet
What in silence makes the birds sound echo
While the heart does beat silently riot
All while the stranger things do up and go

And these stranger things they are always strange
While these wilder things are viciously wild
Then all these things will cause the world to change
Since in all of us was once a young child "

"Well perhaps I fear the wild and it's will
I never want to change just for the thrill"

[Sixbane]

username: Sixbane
name: Everflare
prompt:

Have you ever seen the moon cry?
It's tears collapsing upon the earth as stars
Have your plans ever gone so far awry?
That you seem to lose sight in the menagerie of what ifs and fars.

If you forget what you know, does it make you malicious?
If you choose to let it slip from your mind what makes you whole?
At some point, I'd been called ambitious
Now, I watch my consequences take their toll.

Banished for darkness, but lost in the sea
I prefer a world where I don't have to be
Reminded, that I created the start of my own plight
By leaving behind what I knew was right

For pretty words and dreams
That turned out to be claws,
dragging me down into liars streams.

[8 of Spades]

username: 8 of Spades
name: Citlalli
prompt:

Snow dancing on shadow,
Drifting and spiraling like unknown stars,
Settled on a cold shoulder,
But faded to warmth unseen,
Caught by a willing heart.

[Firedancer77]

username: Firedancer77
name: Lust
prompt:

Oh, dark lady, don't you know,
Your husband leaves you all alone.
He keeps another warm at night
When you're out of mind and out of sight.

Oh, sweet lady, what did you say
The first time you woke up that way?
Was he creeping back at dawn,
Or did you look to his nest and see he was gone?

Oh, loveless lady, don't you see,
He doesn't care for you or me?
Or did you know all along,
His heart did not to you belong?

Oh, scorned lady, what did he do
To make us believe your love was true?
Why is there always hate in your gaze
Like you wish to set your mate ablaze?

Oh, dark lady, of course you know,
That your husband leaves you all alone.
But maybe you're happy he's gone at night,
Out of mind and out of sight.