NaPoWriMo 2020 Day 6 + April PAD Challenge Day 6 + April PAD Countdown Catch-Up Day 4: Trap

Lying loose and limp without a thought

That anything might do me harm

Between powerful jaws I was helplessly caught

My heart exploded with alarm

Basking in the sunlight's sultry charm

Suddenly with peril I was fraught

By unexpected assault was I disarmed 

Lying loose and limp without a thought

Every caution I'd been taught

Went hazy in the spring day's charm

To my detriment, I'd full forgot

That anything might do me harm

I had no defenses to rearm

A docile, helpless forest tot

My spirit quivered with alarm

Between powerful jaws I was helplessly caught

A simple lesson can be taught

From my fatal fall to harm

My last moments were with terror fraught

My heart exploded with alarm

The sweet spring day has lost its charm

Bones picked clean and left to rot

No elegy or call to arms

For prey animals by predators caught

Lying loose and limp

~cie~

notes

NaPoWriMo: Write a poem from the point of view of one person/animal/thing from Hieronymous Bosch’s famous (and famously bizarre) triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights.

April PAD Challenge Day 6: Write a "trap" poem.

April PAD Countdown Catch-Up Day 4: Write an elegy

Poetry Style: Rondeau Redouble

Sinful Sunday Art Flash: Unmentionable Outtakes from Eden: Lust for Power

Dystopian Future Tarot

Copyright Kerry O'Connor

Creation from my rib, I tell you now

Of my thoughts on a subtle takeover

I insist that you must not question how

I think that this place needs a makeover

I will prove that I'm not just a rover

The ideal apocalyptic scene

We will enact, as for power I'm keen

The unmentionable thought on your mind

Is your lust for power, it is quite clear

You thoughtlessly would put me in a bind

To achieve your unwholesome delight, dear

Did you expect that I would clap and cheer

Do you always try to seduce a girl

By discussing takeover of the world

~Sly Has Spoken~

Prompts Used:

Imaginary Garden with Real Toads

Prompt of the Day

Prompts for the Struggling Author

Sinful Sunday

Wicked Wednesday

Notes:

This caustic rhyme is the brainchild of Cie's outspoken radical feminist alter-ego, Sly Fawkes. It is our attempt at a Rhyme Royal.

Sly can be found on Blogger and Tumblr.

Image copyright juliahenze @123rf.com

OctPoWriMo 2016: Day 23: Fantastical

Copyright: hilllander / 123RF Stock Photo

Fantastical

I never meant to hurt you, my dear love

In a world full of pain and suffering

You are an angel from above

I live for every message that you bring

You gave to me such comforting

Your Earthly situation made me grieve

In this world of othering

Your love became too fantastical to believe

We fit together like a hand in glove

I wanted to heal you with my nurturing

Never has another made me feel so beloved

But I so fear rejection's sting

It's my soul you'd end up murdering

I'm so afraid you'd only leave

That my need for you is smothering

Your love became too fantastical to believe

With soft feathers like a peaceful dove

I would stroke your angel wings

You were everything I was dreaming of

But I fear I don't deserve anything

So I end up losing everything

I fear to give and to receive

You were too good for this world to bring

Your love became too fantastical to believe

I gave you my heart on a string

Then left you alone to grieve

My sad angel with the broken wings

Your love became too fantastical to believe

 For Gerry Clifford

from Pepper Baiij

Form:

Ballade

  a, b, a, b, b, c, b, C and the envoy b, c, b, C.

OctPoWriMo 2016: Day 21: Nature's Calling

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Nature Calling

Hold the phone a moment

Here comes a component

Which I simply can't ignore

We who still are living

Can find no forgiving

When the waters start to pour

For when nature's calling

Dreams of water falling

Tell you "you can wait no more"

~Cie and Yeris~

Dedicated to every dreamer and astral traveler who has found themselves interrupted by Nature Calling 

Form:

Balassi Standard

 

OctPoWriMo 2016: Day 20: Pure Soul

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Pure Soul

Your soul pure white like a heavenly dove

With a spot of red upon its breast

It seems you have been cursed, not blessed

Your life a hopeless search for love

I invited you to come to me

You were like a bird with a broken wing

You thought you'd forgotten how to sing

I wanted to try to help you see

While your voice in this world is gone

The song from your soul cannot be so

Shut your eyes and sing soft and low

With me you can always belong

  Let your wings carry you to the Heavens up high

Where there will never be any more reason to cry

Pepper Baiij

for

Gerry Clifford

Form: 

Australian sonnet

 

Dedicated to Malcolm Young

from

Team Netherworld 

 

OctPoWriMo 2016: Day 2: The Void

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The Void

Grieving your undeserved ending

Eyes filled with tears for your fate

Running from the one who would destroy your soul

Reaching out for help when you fear there is none

Yearning for love, you came to me

Couldn't stop falling in love if I tried

Let me put you in my pocket and keep you safe

Ice formed in my heart after being hurt so many times

Frozen inside, I tried to resist

Feelings for you that leave me vulnerable

Only you can save me now

Reach into the void that is my broken heart

Dream with me now and forever

To: Gerry Clifford

From: Pepper Baiij

Style: Acrostic