Dada’s Game

The day was made of squares,
Newbright and melting gold,
Like crowns straight from the fire.
I thought I saw you there;
My breath turned into mist.
But knight came with a plot twist:
Ice blue squares adorned this board,
Glowing like a cheap motel.
The gold softened into quicksand;
My castles sank as the snow fell.
I watched your bishop’s mask slip,
Revealing the demon dog beneath;
It gobbled up my last three pawns.
Checkmate, you said,
Leaving me with a bill in hand,
And ghosting off to Forest Lawn.

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Written for Dverse Surrealism.

Image credit to Pixabay.

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Thursday Inspiration 30

Welcome to Thursday Inspiration! This is my weekly prompt post and hopefully it will inspire you to write something creative, perhaps a poem or a piece of flash fiction. If you’d like to share your writing with the community, please indulge me and tag your post with #p0eticlicense and/or #lightm0tifs, and of course link back if you wish. I will try to visit everyone who participates. 🙂

This week’s theme is river and the picture is below. Here is the song snippet from “The River Cried” recorded by Patty Smyth in 1987:

And the river cried ’cause I lost your love
The river cried, oh
The river cried for my lonely soul
The river cried

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Image credit to the Happy Color app.

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Thursday Inspiration 29

Welcome to Thursday Inspiration! This is my weekly prompt post and hopefully it will inspire you to write something creative, perhaps a poem or a piece of flash fiction. If you’d like to share your writing with the community, please indulge me and tag your post with #p0eticlicense and/or #lightm0tifs, and of course link back if you wish. I will try to visit everyone who participates. 🙂

This week’s theme is train and the picture is below. Here is the song snippet from “Runaway Train” recorded by Soul Asylum in 1992:

Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I’m neither here nor there

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Dream Ghosts

Ghosts of ruined dreams…

Abandoned in the light

Drift in trailing wisps

Floating through the night;

Taking root in clouds

Reaching for the stars…

No longer bound to earth,

No longer in my heart.

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Sadje’s What Do You See 2

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Thursday Inspiration 28

Welcome to Thursday Inspiration! This is my weekly prompt post and hopefully it will inspire you to write something creative, perhaps a poem or a piece of flash fiction. If you’d like to share your writing with the community, please indulge me and tag your post with #p0eticlicense and/or #lightm0tifs, and of course link back if you wish. I will try to visit everyone who participates. 🙂

This week’s theme is demon and the picture is below. Here is the song snippet from “Demons” recorded by Imagine Dragons in 2012:

Don’t get too close
It’s dark inside
It’s where my demons hide
It’s where my demons hide

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Dragon Dreams

Weary of the war

He sinks to welcome slumber

Dreams of distant moons

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Sadje’s What Do You See #1

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Whispers

At the edge of a dream…
I struggled to stay
Between the gossamer blue
Of the spirits’ domain
And the cold yellow sun.
I heard whispers of wings
Flutter my name–
She had come to warn me.
I should leave; I should run.
The day pulled me awake.
I denied what I heard;
I did not want to know.
Today I dreamt them again:
Those whispering wings,
Her spirit crying for me…
My better self, long ago.

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Written for Thursday Inspiration 27

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Thursday Inspiration 27

Welcome to Thursday Inspiration! This is my weekly prompt post and hopefully it will inspire you to write something creative, perhaps a poem or a piece of flash fiction. If you’d like to share your writing with the community, please indulge me and tag your post with #p0eticlicense and/or #lightm0tifs, and of course link back if you wish. I will try to visit everyone who participates. 🙂

This week’s theme is spirit and the picture is below. Here is the song snippet from “Spirit in the Night” recorded by Bruce Springsteen in 1972:

And we danced all night to a soul fairy band
And she kissed me just right
Like only a lonely angel can
She felt so nice
Just as soft as a spirit in the night

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Current Events

Swirling under a butter sun,
Languidly I become
One with the current,
Ever circling
This luminous pool,
Looping through my lazy reverie.
Vaguely aware I am losing
Some essential identity,
A separateness
That makes me, me;
I vow to forsake this place.
Yet the heady siren’s call
To blend into the cool blue thrall,
The glassy-eyed sameness,
Knowing a belonging
Even while longing
To stand alone and free,
Breathing, thinking, feeling…
Without worrying whom to please,
Recaptures my peace.

[Inspired by Rory’s sheeple post.]

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Pieces

One day everything is normal

And the next day it all breaks.

I somehow learn to navigate

These broken, jagged shards,

This deconstructed heart.

One piece then another

Find their way together,

But nothing is ever the same.

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Written for my Thursday Inspiration 26

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