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I did not fall from heaven
as a shining star.
Evil was my intent
to enter men’s hearts
yet many are too strong
my quote unfulfilled.
I am left to wonder,
to search for the darker
regions of men’s hearts
for I know there are many.
Dark thoughts floating free
they belong to someone.
I will find them
to dwell on the darker meaning…
I heard the siren sing
my heart felt light
as if on wings
I woke to find
I had lost a day
my bed was soaked
with sea and salt
The siren’s song
a distant sound…
I found Aladdin’s lamp today
I rubbed until my hand was sore
No genie did I find
Why do these stories haunt the mind
to think there is magic we can find
when all is nowt but puff and smoke…
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Words slip from my mind
On to the blank page in front of me
Yet their meaning fades in the air
I struggle to put the words back in place
Like a broken puzzle that doesn’t fit
The story I need to tell, lost
Like so many, I have let fall by the wayside
When will inspiration grip my mind
Give the story from beginning to end?
Something I can be proud of
To say yes, this is it
The one that will move mountains
break hearts, shed a tear over.
Publishers to fight over
Wouldn’t that be nice?
A story in waiting no longer…
Have you ever had one of those days
when you feel as though you are made of glass?
I am having one today.
I can feel small pieces slipping away as I walk
I am broken, disappearing slowly
I can almost see the pieces glistening behind me
like a trail of breadcrumbs.
Will someone follow and put me together again?
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I am sending out a SOS across the universe
My life is spinning out of time.
The taste of her tears linger
pulling me further into space.
She struck like lightning
then disappeared with the storm.
I let an angel slip through my fingers
Life is hollow without her here.
Sending out a SOS for storm winds
to bring her back to me…
February 14, 2019, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about valentines. It can be Valentine’s Day, the exchange, love for another, romance, or friendship. Have a heart and go where the prompt leads!
I touched her hand for the first time today
my fourteen-year-old heart sank into my boots
as she flinched away
A look of pain on her face
as if I had burned her with a hot iron
The Valentine card left on her desk
I later noticed it in the class bin
torn in half
I wondered if she was the kind
that didn’t believe in love
Later that day, my heart was doubly wounded
when I watched her kissing a girl.
They thought they were hidden by the tall trees
my love for her would never be returned…
I met a lady at the fair
Let me tell your fortune, said she
I smiled and kept on walking
She stopped my steps with this,
“You have one number wrong on your ticket.”
I paid with silver,
she told me then, “turn the four into a five
to see your fortune thrive.”
With this, my bank account did swell…
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It is Merlin’s time to wake
to walk this land once more.
Camelot has turned to dust
A new plan he must conjure.
The computer age he favours
press F1 then enter twice.
The story is there, transfer to page
sign your name, his magic done…
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Where are you now, my faceless one?
Do you hide in the sunset, the rain,
the smile of a newborn, the flowers in Spring?
Are you there in the face a neighbour, a stranger?
Are you the face of the new moon as she rises?
Do you bring new hope with every sunrise,
with each lover’s first kiss?
Are you there when my tears overflow?
Do you kiss away the sadness,
And bless each renewed moment of the day?
When I am feeling jaded, do you help me
to notice something new?
There is a saying, that you are never too old to learn.
I believe it, for a gift from the faceless one
each day holds a new surprise.
Something I hadn’t noticed before…
