Quotes
Snippet – Sweet
Heya Lovelies,
Here’s Day 18 of Fantasy Indies April: Snippet – Sweet Scene
Featuring Enduring The Flames
Teddy Bears.
A sudden lurch pulled me away from my recurrent, blurry and incoherent dream. My eyes shot open and my heart rate tripled from the jolt as my center of balance shifted for an instant. With a quick look down, I realized I was attached to Vlad’s arm.
While my head was still using his shoulder as a pillow up until I was roused from my sleep, I was, to my utter embarrassment, no longer holding his hand. My whole body was angled toward him with both of my legs curled up on the seat.
The vampire’s muscled arm was clutched against my chest like it was a warm teddy bear disguised as a seat belt with his hand resting so high on my outer thigh it was almost on my hip…
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‘Oseh shalom’, a New Poetic Form
Senseless, or: Relentless
My 1st‘Oseh Shalom’
Ukrainian children flee;
nuclear power plant set ablaze;
senseless, relentless war;
please - just stop;
let live - Amen.
The new ‘Oseh Shalom’ poetic form
I have created a new syllabic form of poetry, based upon the Jewish prayer for peace ‘Oseh Shalom’, which is sung as a popular children’s song:
‘Oseh Shalom’ poem requirements:
- a pentastitch (a poem in 5 lines);
- syllabic: 7/9/6/3/4;
- the final two syllables must be the word: ‘Amen’
- thematic: written about peace.
#TankaTuesday
The above ‘Oseh Shalom’ form was created for Colleen M. Chesebro’s ‘Tanka Tuesday’ prompt: Poets were encouraged to create their own syllabic poetry forms.
Used Lover Blues (2)
A Mediterranean Odysseum
I once had an epic lover
of Olympian splendour
Nightly she would come to me
as the lustful goddess, Aphrodite
Lost in her insatiable pleasure
I was driven completely crazy
Yet by the break of dawn
she would miraculously transform
into Athena, the born again virgin
… Zeus’s warlike daughter
with her divinity fully intact
in a vesuvian rage, and ready to attack
Her Bronze Age Wisdom
wielded as a deadly weapon
Was I just her Troy Boy to be used
and then abandoned come the morning?
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Life Box – Quotation of the Day by Victor Hugo
Cyranny’s quickie!
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Do you have a saying that you think comes from your family (very common in your family, but you’ve never heard other people say it)?
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And Then… #Poetry
Take one silken thread And then Let it free to touch And then With wings unseen, fly And then Unite the world in thought And then Take each other’s hand And then With touch, love springs And then Ghosts whisper of demons gone And then Old memories come knocking And then The silken thread is broken And then You see change is fleeting And then New ideas keep breathing And then You start again ©AnitaDawes2022
Hope
the new dawn recoils
from the night’s darkest embrace
seeking fresh solace
Eluded
I find not one verse
as the simplest rhymes elude
the muses taunt me
ALL THE THINGS
All the things I thought I knew
I knew would someday collapse
Someday collapse and bury me
Bury me underneath its facts
All the things I thought I knew
I knew I’d someday regret
Someday regret the knowledge
The knowledge I wish you’d kept
All the things I thought I knew
I knew somehow would steal time
Steal time along with my youth
My youth sold for a nickle and a dime
All the things I thought I knew
I knew nothing that could save me
Save me from the mess I’d make
I’d make so tangle-y
For the whole world to see
The Reluctant Poet 