Night Lights
Stalks wrapped in lights rose up into the night.
The Fungal Forest spread from the river
sheltered ‘neath the Enchanted Forest. Bright
as sunset, never plain, a world inside
that domain, where the wee folk fly about.
Naked except for wings, they sit beside
glowing ‘shrooms and keep the sacred worm stout.
The worm then spins silken threads the wee folk
trade with the Tall Ones for red dyes to make
colorful draperies for the Mount Folk.
In the ceremony, the ‘shrooms they take,
to find clarity. Instead their mind’s dazed.
They wanted what the wee folk had in spades.
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Like vignette-style poems? Intrigued by this corner of my fantasy world? I’ve got lots more of both on my Tales of Shayari page or my Holiday page.
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Inspired by FFfAW #42 and The Sunday Whirl Wordle #227.
Wow that is impressive! So creative, what a wonderful imagination you have and the style in which you express it.
Thank you! If you like my style, please check out my Tales of Shayari page: http://melindakucsera.com/tales-of-shayari/ where you’ll find links to related sonnet vignettes that take place in the same fantasy world. I publish a new addition every day.
Thank you, I will! It’s quite a talent you have!!
Thank you, they’re based on a fantasy series I developed over the last couple decades. I’m working on publishing the first book of the series. So I have a ton of material to use as a base 🙂
Wow how exciting is that? Congratulations, I wish you all the best with your publishing…looking forward to reading them!
Thank you, I really appreciate your kind words and best wishes.
Lovely poetry and interesting “fairy” tale. Great job!
Thank you! It’s another corner of my fantasy world 🙂
A wonderful poem! I really like the writing style.
Thank you, I have 200+ more in the same vein! I hope you’ll check them out when you have time.
I’ll be sure to do that.
🙂
Oh, someone else who sees mushrooms rather than trees :). Lovely poem!
They’re trees? I don’t see it 🙂
This is a really good piece of poetry 🙂
Thank you 🙂 They just looked like bio luminescent mushrooms to me. So my imagination flew off with that concept and left me this poem.
It is very good, and I wish that I could write poetry like that.
Thank you, I think in terms of my other work it’s mediocre. It felt a bit contrived more so than other times I’ve used wordles + images as inspiration but I have had a hard couple of days and that could be why I am unable to cut myself some slack. I really appreciate your kind words.
This poem is wonderful. Aren’t you going to link it up to the Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers story board so the others can read it?
Thank you and thank you for the reminder. It’s been a crazy morning. I will take care of that soon.
No problem. I just wanted to gently remind you.
I’m glad you did. I had completely forgotten about that.