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| Death of the Myth @skyloverpoetry |
This flabby life slinks into a quaint story
of a gorgeous book, undulating in plain time.
A drab home may be beholden to magnificent things.
Clean nights will long for this place
of bald days, alive with unsightly study –
fancy eyes arising in an unkempt world.
A late entry for Magaly's weekend prompt: Exquisite Corpse Poetry
My flabby self likes this. It's weird and wonderful.
ReplyDeleteYep! That it is..
DeleteSome really meaty stuff came out of that whimsical prompt! To me, it feels like it's talking about order and chaos, and how artistic expression often finds roots in chaotic soil.
ReplyDeleteI agree. This was not easy for me. I found it hard to get the words and images to gel.
DeleteThe concept of a flabby life...filled with excess, I guess. Now there's something! All that excess could be cut out with surgical precision...but then I'd have nothing to write about. Love this!
ReplyDeleteIndeed.. we must look to the devil for the details.
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Wow Kerry!!! Have you been peeking into my home junk room, aka study/office?
ReplyDeleteWhen I retired my daughter helped me clean my work office. It took three long days, we hardly threw anything away. Most of my books we'd set out in the haul, by noon the next day most would be gone. Student hoarders like me, someday reading.
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Always a good thing to pass on books.
DeleteThis is absolutely brilliant!❤️ I love the juxtaposition of the images "Clean nights will long for this place," and "fancy eyes arising in an unkempt world," which reminds how close we really are to the end of the world. I also love the artwork which goes beautifully with the poem!❤️
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sanaa. I'm glad it all makes some kind of sense.
DeleteWow! You created a poem that makes sense out of that hodge podge! Bravo.
ReplyDeleteI do love that promise of life sinking into a gorgeous book, really well done on that prompt.
ReplyDeleteI liked how that turned out too!
Deleteslinks into a quaint story... nice. This was a very difficult exercise.
ReplyDeleteI love flabby life. I tried to do this prompt, but I couldn't wrap my head around it. Your poem makes me so jealous. :)
ReplyDeleteIt was not an easy one to make sense of.
DeleteAll my flabby bits agree with your poem :)
ReplyDeleteI love the layering effect and how the end line really brings it:
ReplyDelete"fancy eyes arising in an unkempt world."
I want to see with fancy eyes!
I also liked the 'fancy eyes' duo. Thanks for stopping by, Ella.
DeleteThe word play is clever but am loving your art these days - the combinations work so well.
ReplyDeleteThe image and the words go so well with each other. There is something about the look on her face that seems to sing of that last lines, especially--so much beauty... wasted in a horrible world (where such wonders are killed).
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for playing, Kerry!
I'm glad I tried again. Thanks, Mag.
DeleteLast line is my favorite, Kerry.
ReplyDeleteDisturbing but very cool artwork...wow. Your words a societal comment about what we can find even if we aren't at our best or we don't have the best...we are a mere gorgeous book away from even better, even if it is for just a short time. You take the cake SA.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Corey. Maybe just a slice.
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A gorgeous display of whimsy! Bravo!
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