Category: Sonnet

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Guilty Pleasures

Melinda Kucsera

Guilty Pleasures Not dark chocolate, peanut butter or anything edible; not silk or chrome or anything tangible; no gold ore, silver medallions or anything bone; no banal evening guiltily indulged in and gone; no apology whispered, nor promise betrayed; no treasure divulged, nor business deal skillfully maneuvered; no bold deity that needs appeasing, nor ancient text whose sight invites thieving– True though all of those items are pleasing, once had, they’re gone and that leads to grieving. He takes his pleasures from things eternal, whose use doesn’t reduce the original. ~ ~ ~ In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “No Apologies” and “Hate to Love.” Continue reading Guilty Pleasures

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Veterans

Melinda Kucsera

Veterans Beneath the poppies they lie, our fallen protectors, who gave their lives to stop foes from near and far from taking God-given rights to life and liberty. In the throes of battle they never failed to take down the enemy, ’till snicker-snack, their match met, one unlucky sword thrust took them down. Up they got to fight ’till a bullet catch– then to earth they went, eternal sleep bent. Their eyes close on this churned up battlefield, then open on a field of poppies meant to greet their tired souls. Red flowers reveal their memory honored by those they saved, their struggle ends now … Continue reading Veterans

Curse Breaker, poem, poetry, Shayari, Sonnet4 Comments

Photo-Fiction Challenge #3 – Travelor

Melinda Kucsera

Travelor He dreamed of enchanted trees that spanned from earth to sky, heard its call in his marrow. To the Holy City, Morfane, he’d come but its cathedrals’ hope for tomorrow couldn’t ensnare his heart. That organ belonged to Shayari’s green valleys. Her siren song pulled him from inn to road, where he belonged. On wards he trod to that place where all wrongs were righted. Where good men dwelt in green dreams. Past urban wonders his peasant eyes scarce noticed. For they had fixed on that seam ‘tween dreams and waking where the boundary scarce existed and one might pass unhindered the magic … Continue reading Photo-Fiction Challenge #3 – Travelor

Fantasy, poem, poetry, Shayari, Sonnet14 Comments

Shayari – Where I Write – Writing 101 #6

Melinda Kucsera

This is my place to write (in my mind but not in physical reality) Shayari A rolling land, with mountains tall and mist shrouded, whose snow capped peaks launch eagles high, where old forests roam, intelligence-kissed by magic writ by a mage who was high, where Guardians ride, crystal swords flashing in the sun and villages perch in trees tangled up in magic and true knowing, where cities sprawl in valleys blasted free of trees by ancient weapons, now barren those crater-cities where nothing will grow despite rivers that flow through the warren to the inland freshwater sea that knows a secret hides … Continue reading Shayari – Where I Write – Writing 101 #6

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Your Days are Numbered – A Daily Post Sonnet

Melinda Kucsera

Today is 11/8/2015 Today dawns on the bones of yesterday. Other than be swept away by regret, Don’t waste what time is given this new day. Accomplish what you may, but don’t forget Your reprieve ends with sunset. Accounting Is closed with the coming of night. When sleep Slides shut this day, do no more adjusting. 1 line per day until its filled and keep   1 line for tomorrow still to be filled. 8th this day of November is here ranked. 2 for the thousand years history spilled. 0 hours left to change what today banks. 1 because that’s where it all started. With 5 we have the beginning of a myth. … Continue reading Your Days are Numbered – A Daily Post Sonnet

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The Dance – A Free Association Prompt Stomp

Melinda Kucsera

The Dance Her voice twisted and tangled as it wove a lyric story that took place long ago. Drums pound the way back through time, where we dove into deep pools of magic for the show. A slow telling of mysteries by fire light where each gesture brought revelation. Shadows gather and listen without tire. Perspiration mixed with inspiration leads the dance accompanied by hawk’s cry and we, travelers from far flung future sit, listen to a time gone by as we scry. With our ancestors we’re one in spirit. But the dance of ages goes on wearing faces that change; there’s truth in … Continue reading The Dance – A Free Association Prompt Stomp

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Truth Serum – A Daily Post Sonnet

Melinda Kucsera

Truth Serum Liquid revelation in a test tube, just one sip and you’ll spill all your secrets into my waiting ear. Give me the cube, the nuclear launch codes and don’t forget to sing those account numbers too. Made from shiny purple berries concentrated and distilled into my secret serum. One sip and you are intoxicated. No conditioning can stop you talking. No torture needed to glean your secrets. A sip or two sets you talking, spilling it all. No regrets, in sleep you’ll forget about that purple drink I handed you. Don’t worry, I won’t leave a single clue. ~ ~ … Continue reading Truth Serum – A Daily Post Sonnet

Fantasy, poem, poetry, Shayari, Sonnet7 Comments

One Word Photo Challenge – Summer

Melinda Kucsera

Squash Blossoms Squash blossoms bloom one day, then crumple, fade before morning next comes. He watched it sit amid squash vines, orphaned babe in lap, spade in hand, motionless as the vines. Sun lit its face giving it a feminine cast. The sword slung at his hip hummed with magic and he wondered what a plain man who’s passed his prime ought do with such a tragic crew. It saw him standing there, came to him, babe cradled in its arms, with squash blossoms in its hair, all of them spent, just like him, their life done, their pollen gone, a handsome bit of bright decay … Continue reading One Word Photo Challenge – Summer

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Six of One–I Broke your Doomsday Clock – A Daily Post Sonnet

Melinda Kucsera

I Broke Your Doomsday Clock. Six of one–oops, I broke your doomsday clock. Half a dozen of another smothered it good. Before the hands struck twelve o’clock, kaboom, into smithereens I hammered it leaving nothing left of your doomsday time device. That metaphor I retired and I did it all via smartphone today while in a shark’s belly I reclined, tired from my world domination bidding spree on eBay of all things. The world’s on sale and I’m not the only one shopping, please someone send me a million dollar pail. Because I have got winnings to collect, and sore losers to … Continue reading Six of One–I Broke your Doomsday Clock – A Daily Post Sonnet

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Photo-Fiction Challenge #2 – Sharks and Photo Ops

Melinda Kucsera

Sharks and Photo Ops Too easy was our escape; the ship bucked, pitched and rolled from missile attack. That bitch gravity gave it a good slap. I tucked into webs of restraints and had to ditch. Into the sea I fell with alien friends and right into a school of sharks because we just couldn’t catch a break. No bombs to rend these fishy foes. Nothing to make them pause. Blood in the water–the frenzy begins. But I’ve got my smartphone and its flash blinds first one shark, another. I flash and spin. But there’s too many and I’m in a bind. I’m … Continue reading Photo-Fiction Challenge #2 – Sharks and Photo Ops

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Dive and Shift

Melinda Kucsera

Dive and Shift He leaps, falls, hits mirrored water, shifts– human skin flips to scales. Gills breathe water, exhale oxygen into blood; the shift continues, webs his fingers, toes. Water caresses his sleek new body as he swims. The current tugs him out to sea, its siren call he can’t resist. It carries him out into deep water where old wrecks fallen prey to storms litter the seafloor. Check out their remains, he does, until a shadow’s pass draws him out. The kraken’s come to play. Chitinous claws extend to uphold vows. Tentacles swing, stab, miss–he strikes to slay. He evades its limbs, slashes … Continue reading Dive and Shift

Curse Breaker, Fantasy, poem, poetry, Sarn, Sonnet33 Comments

Writing 101 Assignment 5 – Legacy

Melinda Kucsera

“All that is gold does not glitter…” — JRR Tolkien Legacy (the Legend of the Curse Breaker) Not all gold glitters while some lies hidden. In caves deep and under waters sweet, bides that which can set all to right. Unbidden it rises from the depths to hand the guide knowledge true to right a wrong God still sees. Cursed since birth this child of a magic ban, to his hand draws kingmaker Legacy– the blade that shattered in the traitor’s hand. There it merges into a gleaming whole– Blade that regicide and fratricide broke– to heal a sundered land and … Continue reading Writing 101 Assignment 5 – Legacy

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Leaving on a Space Ship – A Daily Post Sonnet

Melinda Kucsera

Leaving on a Space Ship If I leave earth and trade it for the stars, never can I return home. The rocket’s red glare, escape velocity, no bar. past our planet’s dance in our space pocket, I go into outer space to explore, to boldly go where no woman has gone before. To sail the milky way, to soar past alien suns and watch a new dawn bloom on exoplanets while you grow old. Earth spins your years away while mine slow down special relativity, I’m told, works like that with light speed; it makes me frown. I ride the light, push nine-tenths of light speed … Continue reading Leaving on a Space Ship – A Daily Post Sonnet

Fantasy, poem, poetry, Shayari, Sonnet19 Comments

Flash Fiction Challenge – Zombies vs Healer

Melinda Kucsera

   The Necromancer vs the Healer The necromancer raised them row by row, ripped from death’s sleep, the zombies sprang from graves. An army shambles bent on overthrow, its mauve-robed leader can’t ever be saved. Drawn by death’s cold touch and stench of decay, a healer comes with life’s power in his veins. His touch turns zombies to dust, and waylays the necromancer’s plans. No innocents slain, no kingdom overthrown–Necromancer faces Healer, but life always prevails. One touch removes un-life, Necromancer falls, his mauve robes puddle, his bargains fail, for power he swapped salvation, enslaved himself to Death, but he can still be saved. ~ ~ ~ … Continue reading Flash Fiction Challenge – Zombies vs Healer

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Dawn – Writing 101 Assignment 4

Melinda Kucsera

Dawn In quiet he sat, watched the rising light falling through stained glass to illuminate the church. Watched the dark driven out by light, a sun created to eradicate darkness wherever it falls. In the heart, under cloud, in church–wherever shadows linger, light shines and does battle apart from life flowing on the earth. On it glows, its mission never complete. So he sits quiet, and contemplates night’s fade to dawn. God’s free gift to us all, calling to spirits young and old, a bright reminder that dawn makes all things new as it showers blessings, renews all in need, this light offering. Continue reading Dawn – Writing 101 Assignment 4