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THIS DARKNESS WITHIN

A global three-line poetry gathering by Burning Log Poetry

Guidelines

• Poems must be original work.

• Three lines.

• No “I”.

• Up to three poems max.

• Previously published work welcome.

• Poems may be lightly edited for spelling or formatting.

• Selected poems + writers are spotlit on the Burning Log poetry channel. All submitted poems appear on digital and printed Burning Log anthologies. You retain ownership of your words.

• This gathering welcomes emotional honesty; but it is not a therapy space. • Submission deadline: 1pm UTC on June 5th

Write three lines to the darkness within.

Not to banish it.
Not to fix it.

To listen.

Three lines only.

No “I”.

Your poem

Poem 2

Poem 3

Your name or pseudonym

Where is this poem arriving from? (City, country, landscape, or nowhere at all)

Email address

The Gathering Space

This anthology is unfolding collectively through the Burning Log poetry channel on Telegram.

Selected poems, reflections, writing prompts, and anthology updates are shared there.

To maintain the integrity of the shared creative process, only submissions from channel members will be considered. Join here.

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Previous gathering

Earlier this year, Burning Log invited poets into a collective three-line gathering on resilience.

Selected works became a small anthology titled:

“Three Lines for Resilience”. Read it here.

Support Burning Log Poetry

Burning Log is sustained entirely through reader support and acts of patronage.

Every anthology, poetry gathering, printed edition, and shared space for honest words is kept alive collectively.

Support is never expected.

Your presence here already matters.

Portugal MBWay: Mayank Maheshwari (+351 926046957)

EU SEPA: Mayank Maheshwari (DE91 1001 1001 2620 6438 78)

Thank you for bringing your words here

Some darkness asks to be solved.

Some asks only to be witnessed.

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