MONTHLY CHALLENGE

Challenge yourself

We offer monthly challenges as a source of inspiration for our poetry. Feel free to submit or publish your very own interpretation of our monthly challenges.

monthly challenge

November 2025

Well it's Halloween, so i'm asking
for a simple good old-fashioned Ghost story! Not particularly a scary poem, just not about trick or treat, or 'horror'. It could be family tale, philosophical (as my attempt on the image), a re-write of aclassic, or simply made up.

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Martin Pickard

"While in my bed, adventure book in hand, I dread the tread upon the stairs that means the loss of light foreshadowing my dreams."