Prompt Challenge: Write the letters of the alphabet down the side of your page. Start at the top, each line will start with the letter on that line. Complete each line as it carries on from the one before.
This prompt has been resting in my inbox for a few weeks now. Tonight, I decided it had been there a few weeks too long, so I sat down and this spilled out of me. It's dark I know, but sometimes darkness reveals the most truest of beauty. Plus, the world currently feels like it's been trapped inside Poe's Pit and the Pendulum, so you can hardly blame me...
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Abalone sea
shells
Bare their
teeth up to the sky
Crows caw
with forced clarity
Daring the
mountains beneath them
Eating the
clouds of hearts
Far away I’m
certain
God exists
in a halcyon land, there
Hope is more
than a tattered gleam
Islands brim
with jewel toned peace
Justice roams
with a purposeful hand, but…
Killing is
all I see here
Love splayed
out, then drawn and quartered
Marooned
upon cold sea waves that know
Nothing but
cruel barbarity and
Opened doors
that have never witnessed laughter
Pain is the
ruling monarch
Queen of blood
and death and
rage echoing
with
Stained words
that spill over the seconds of every page
Tripping on
the bones of every scattered story
Unheard are
screams for mercy, unheeded pleas for peace
Victory is
found only by the violent
Wanderers
who believe bravery only breeds inside slashing swords, yet
Xtal waterfalls
are our true beautiful wonder, but they too fall
Yelling into
gravity as each liquid stone sinks from it’s
Zenith into
unbeing
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