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Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge!
Home Brew
by Angela Yuriko Smith
That tear in the sky
can be fixed with some magic…
stardust and spiders.
Stirring my kettle…
eye of newt, a broken heart…
tears of an angel
thrice fallen and damned.
The darker the souls I find…
the richer the broth.
Heavenly smells waft
from my kettle, and to you.
They seek and they find.
And you can’t resist
the cotton candy despair…
I know you want this.
Magic for your bones
dusty, mortal, earthen bound…
you desire starlight.
You feel the call home.
Your ticket is in this brew…
you just need a taste.
Fiction © Copyright Angela Yuriko Smith
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com.
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Angela Yuriko Smith is an American poet, author and co-publisher of Space and Time magazine, a publication that has been printing speculative fiction, art and poetry since 1966. Together we build a poem as a community each month. Visit “Exquisite Corpse” at SpaceandTime.net to submit.
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A darkly cool poem.
Yes, good work with the prompt, too, Angela!
This poem has such great rhythm – hypnotic and tempting – “cotton candy despair” – what a phrase :-).