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  • Avengers’ Masque – A Stomp Prompt Sonnet

    Avengers’ Masque – A Stomp Prompt Sonnet

    Avengers’ Masque Her costume, a gown of fine wine, her mask set with pearls clasped to her face by ribbons woven into her tresses for the task of concealing sharp toothed combs. Those ribbons doubled as garrotes to choke betrayer’s throats if she could lure the king’s killers out to the veranda. Did the betrayer see circling near that his doom… Read more

  • A Floral Haiku

    A Floral Haiku

    Frost comes, flowers fade. Snow falls; winter blankets all. Primrose sprouts through snow. for today’s prompt for Writing with Jishnu: Flowers, Metaphor and haiku Read more

  • The Scribe – A Prompt Sonnet

    The Scribe – A Prompt Sonnet

    The Scribe: Miren The quill scratches, making marks that record the deeds of Sarn, his beloved brother, who can’t see his worth. That task never bores Miren as he sits writing of his brother by lumir light every night. How many words must spill on journal pages before he finds the spark for an epiphany? Every day his brother fetches food for orphans… Read more

  • A Crown of Sonnets for Your Soul: A Stomp Prompt

    A Crown of Sonnets for Your Soul: A Stomp Prompt

    A Crown of Sonnets for Your Soul (All the sonnets from the series in one handy place. You’re welcome.) Soul Walking A woman walks in slow time savoring the images the music paints upon her soul. On the band plays never knowing the joy they bring one young woman’s soul. Drawn to roam the graveyard, barefoot… Read more

  • Souls Praying: Stomp Prompt Sonnet #7

    Souls Praying: Stomp Prompt Sonnet #7

    Souls Praying “He who began the song with that one chord, didn’t sit enthroned. Raising Choruses of peace, so all could be of one accord, he sang, delivering new summonses, Weaving a song of forgiveness: atone now, he spoke to her, the woman who walked in slow time savoring the show. Her bones rest in… Read more

  • A Dream Out of Reach – A Daily Post Sonnet #2

    A Dream Out of Reach – A Daily Post Sonnet #2

    A Dream Out of Reach On the field of glory, his armor bright, the knight sat his white steed ready to ride. He extended his hand, asked if Sarn might: “Ride for truth. Ride for one and for all. Ride for justice and peace. Ride out now with me.” The sun gilded the knight, made… Read more

  • Rumble in the Enchanted Forest – A Photo-Fiction Prompt Sonnet

    Rumble in the Enchanted Forest Changing skin, trading fur for red jacket slim, hands in pockets cold, the enchanted forest’s always watching, got no hatchet wouldn’t hack it even those slanted magicked weeds wouldn’t know. Wolves confront me, glare at my red jacket wanting action. Dropping my jacket, I attack with glee. My claws tear them into… Read more

  • Out of Reach – A Daily Prompt Sonnet

    Out of Reach – A Daily Prompt Sonnet

    Out of Reach ‘Twas no toy upon  high shelf that caught his eye, no bright ball rolling down a hole either, not some child’s toy that could be bought, nothing so droll as that for this boy’s goal. His little fingers strained to touch the magic rising around him in concentric spheres. Shimmering green, translucent–a magic bubble… Read more

  • To Live and Die in Starlight

    To Live and Die in Starlight

    To Live and Die in Starlight To live and die in starlight—my dark tomb I await as my last breath space swallows. Static–no rescue from this chill’d, stark womb. No shining rebirth as stars do follows this silent end of asphyxiation. No state funeral, no six gun salute– No alien felled me for my nation.… Read more

  • Souls Arriving: Stomp Prompt Sonnet #6

    Souls Arriving: Stomp Prompt Sonnet #6

    Souls Arriving “On the far shore, where old lives abated. The square-rigged, ship drawn by dragon power, pulled up to the shallows. She departed with the souls who’d flown from grave to towers shining in the sun. Angels gathered there to welcome all to the Lands of Ever where no mortal had e’er trod. Whatever expectations… Read more