In some shaded fantasy
Blinking and roving
Inspiring your timidity.
But fear not its glare
Fear not its gleam
For Sting is brought here
To take on this thing!
Your 5th prompt is: "fantasy"
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fantasy?
purple plastered peeps
and can't breathe?
or are we wandering
penury,
dead stop peasant
inquiry?
insurance-nulled scant
luxury?
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#FastPrompt
Life is but a fleeting thing
& we do not have long
Upon our floating blue rock.
Remember to live
For all those who went before
For all those who come after.
We live.
We remember who came before.
Your 5th prompt is: "memento mori"
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#FastPrompt
too many leave us
without graves to mark their passing.
they are dust, a footnote in a newspaper,
and sometimes John Doe. Jane Doe.
but to be marked
to be planted in a field
with other effigies,
a crop of morbidity.
says remember me still
to help me live on.
#fastprompt 212:5
Life is but a fleeting thing
& we do not have long
Upon our floating blue rock.
Remember to live
For all those who went before
For all those who come after.
We live.
We remember who came before.
Your 5th prompt is: "memento mori"
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📸by Tobe Roberts via Pexels
too many leave us
without graves to mark their passing.
they are dust, a footnote in a newspaper,
and sometimes John Doe. Jane Doe.
but to be marked
to be planted in a field
with other effigies,
a crop of morbidity.
says remember me still
to help me live on.
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turn them into your chariot,
your personal train.
leave the rest!
but the others are just pieces of you,
and you chop them up to feed
the pigeons
as carrion birds in your wake.
#fastprompt 212:4
On her pale wings
Straight to the heavens.
It was not sorrow she took
But love. Always love.
Your 4th prompt is: "wings"
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turn them into your chariot,
your personal train.
leave the rest!
but the others are just pieces of you,
and you chop them up to feed
the pigeons
as carrion birds in your wake.
#fastprompt 212:4
looming upon the horizon.
I do not know if I should be afraid
or welcome the bliss of an eternal sleep.
what waits
in the darkness after?
is there such
or has our desire to keep living
blinded us to the truth?
that what lingers
isn't alive.
#fastprompt 212:3
So that hope would not perish,
So that we would always remember
Those who came before
Lost to the ravages of war.
We keep their memories
Burning in our hearts.
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looming upon the horizon.
I do not know if I should be afraid
or welcome the bliss of an eternal sleep.
what waits
in the darkness after?
is there such
or has our desire to keep living
blinded us to the truth?
that what lingers
isn't alive.
#fastprompt 212:3
I was still fresh-faced youth
unable to contemplate the chasm
yawning beneath my feet,
of eternity without you.
#fastprompt 212:2
Her soul longing to feel his hand in hers.
She laid a single flower upon his grave,
Said a prayer she hoped he heard,
And was gone.
Your 2nd prompt is: "longing"
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I was still fresh-faced youth
unable to contemplate the chasm
yawning beneath my feet,
of eternity without you.
#fastprompt 212:2
Surround me,
A remembrance
Of abundance in my life
Before all became darkness.
In memoriam, my past dead
And I trudge past the living,
A shackle on swollen feet.
#fastprompt 212:1
Guttering flames somehow reaching,
All for those we lost,
On this day of remembrance,
We pray for thee.
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Surround me,
A remembrance
Of abundance in my life
Before all became darkness.
In memoriam, my past dead
And I trudge past the living,
A shackle on swollen feet.
#fastprompt 212:1
that's what they all want,
until they pick up ol' Jack
and carve a face into him.
no matter...
once a year is time for revenge
for all those awful pumpkin carvers.
do you like the face I gave you?
#fastprompt 211:5
So carefree
As I have when, in fall,
They rake up the leaves.
For one moment
We cease to be,
That smell, that sound
Alive inside of me.
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that's what they all want,
until they pick up ol' Jack
and carve a face into him.
no matter...
once a year is time for revenge
for all those awful pumpkin carvers.
do you like the face I gave you?
#fastprompt 211:5
feeling the tiny things crawl across me,
but that damned necromancer
stole it from me,
as they do.
so it's brains this and brains that,
but no one asks me
if I wouldn't rather go back.
no...just shoot me in the head
ffs.
#fastprompt 211:4
The roaming sun,
At peace in its radiant glow.
Something inside
That's doomed to die
That lurks in the depths below.
Your 4th prompt is: "peace"
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feeling the tiny things crawl across me,
but that damned necromancer
stole it from me,
as they do.
so it's brains this and brains that,
but no one asks me
if I wouldn't rather go back.
no...just shoot me in the head
ffs.
#fastprompt 211:4
enchanted them.
mesmerized them.
it was all to the good,
since their screams brought my pet
before I'd made my exit.
how else should I feed him
I'd think,
as I watched his mighty teeth
rip their flesh.
#fastprompt 211:3
A spanned expanse
All the highlights
Of light that dance
Across its giggling flows.
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enchanted them.
mesmerized them.
it was all to the good,
since their screams brought my pet
before I'd made my exit.
how else should I feed him
I'd think,
as I watched his mighty teeth
rip their flesh.
#fastprompt 211:3
but there was a kind of satisfaction.
my speed was swift, without warning.
there was no answering shout,
my sweet caress, my kiss.
I left them bloodless in my wake,
and satiated, I sauntered away.
not a one believed.
#fastprompt 211:2
Lightning quick snatch a leaf
Floating hay that cause a sneeze
Fields aglow with yellow sheaf.
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but there was a kind of satisfaction.
my speed was swift, without warning.
there was no answering shout,
my sweet caress, my kiss.
I left them bloodless in my wake,
and satiated, I sauntered away.
not a one believed.
#fastprompt 211:2
I tried not to snap twigs
And crunch leaves
When I walked on autumnal paths.
I had to be sneaky, you see.
Stealthy.
If they saw me coming,
They'd run.
And I was getting hungrier
These days...
#fastprompt 211:1
A time to frolic
And enjoy the cool air.
We've peeled off the skin
Of summer sweat
And glisten
With bales
Of Hay.
Your 1st prompt is: "frolic"
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I tried not to snap twigs
And crunch leaves
When I walked on autumnal paths.
I had to be sneaky, you see.
Stealthy.
If they saw me coming,
They'd run.
And I was getting hungrier
These days...
#fastprompt 211:1
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Watched the woman being dragged away.
Nothing was there, but I got the proof.
This video here, her last dying scream.
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The means to contact the dead.
But their offer, oh do refrain,
Or just do nothing that I've said.
Your 4th prompt is: "contact the dead"
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#fastprompt 4
#fastprompt 210:3
Get out of there before it's too late!
Don't pack, don't fret, just leave, leave, leave!
Another minute and you'll be aggrieved!
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#fastprompt 210:3
#fastprompt 210:2
Walking through the walls,
Asking for a cup of tea.
Vanish before you're much appalled
Before you question your sanity.
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#fastprompt 210:2
#fastprompt 210:1
But their sudden appearance on videos queued.
Enough for your reality to be skewed,
Often more than you can bear.
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#fastprompt 210:1
cackling and mixing mud concoctions
until the lights came on and we were called home.
at night my parents did their seances,
and we'd try to sleep
with the monsters tickling our feet.
#fastprompt 209:5
You better watch out.
They'll either try to use your parts
In their brews,
Or make you their slaves.
It's not right, is it?
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cackling and mixing mud concoctions
until the lights came on and we were called home.
at night my parents did their seances,
and we'd try to sleep
with the monsters tickling our feet.
#fastprompt 209:5
I see it peeking around the corner,
zombified face leering,
grotesque and fetid.
I can't smell it,
so that probably means
it's just the local ghost
trying to scare the lights out of me.
he forgets
I wrote the book.
#fastprompt 209:4
So when you're tired of blood,
Just switch to brains.
Sure, you might rot a bit,
But who's alive to know?
Being a zombie is more fun,
In any case.
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I see it peeking around the corner,
zombified face leering,
grotesque and fetid.
I can't smell it,
so that probably means
it's just the local ghost
trying to scare the lights out of me.
he forgets
I wrote the book.
#fastprompt 209:4
of course.
for one thing, you can't get a suntan.
so you're always this pale shade of white
and slightly bloody eyes.
you have a hard time keeping friends,
since they're food,
and the cravings really suck.
#fastprompt 209:3
I'm thinking that after a while,
Not having a body would suck.
So just inhabit someone else's
And become undead.
It worked for Dracula.
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📸Dracula (1958) via Wikimedia
of course.
for one thing, you can't get a suntan.
so you're always this pale shade of white
and slightly bloody eyes.
you have a hard time keeping friends,
since they're food,
and the cravings really suck.
#fastprompt 209:3
But I think I'd make the perfect
Poltergeist.
I think my afterlife
Should come with a warning label,
DOES NOT PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS.
#fastprompt 209:2
If I was dead,
Would be to be a ghost.
Who doesn't want to walk
Through walls and scare
Their friends?
It's a win, win.
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But I think I'd make the perfect
Poltergeist.
I think my afterlife
Should come with a warning label,
DOES NOT PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS.
#fastprompt 209:2
hiding in dark places, hidden deep.
but somehow they always found us,
and somehow they knew our dreams.
we could not run from their screams.
#fastprompt 209:1
Cemetery or whatever have you.
First your dead and buried,
Six feet down to keep you there.
But maybe you hate coffins?
I know I would.
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hiding in dark places, hidden deep.
but somehow they always found us,
and somehow they knew our dreams.
we could not run from their screams.
#fastprompt 209:1
but I was so misunderstood.
sure, I dragged people off
into dark alleyways
and sucked out their souls.
but they didn't DIE.
I let them go back to their homes.
It wasn't my fault they killed
their entire families,
those psychos.
#fastprompt 208:5
Not a monster at all.
But they treated him like one,
Waved their torches at him,
Chased him away.
Who was the real monster?
Certainly not that gentle giant.
Certainly not.
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but I was so misunderstood.
sure, I dragged people off
into dark alleyways
and sucked out their souls.
but they didn't DIE.
I let them go back to their homes.
It wasn't my fault they killed
their entire families,
those psychos.
#fastprompt 208:5
they wrapped us together,
body to body,
before burying the two of us
just under the dirt.
and when he died,
I felt his body begin to rot
before I finally succumbed.
it was his gas in the end,
since he was always so full
of hot air.
#fastprompt 208:4
But they wrapped him up all wrong.
His bandages dangled and tangled,
Tripped him up to the point
That he caught fire before
He could get up to too much trouble.
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they wrapped us together,
body to body,
before burying the two of us
just under the dirt.
and when he died,
I felt his body begin to rot
before I finally succumbed.
it was his gas in the end,
since he was always so full
of hot air.
#fastprompt 208:4
All of my life,
My life in undeath, I suppose.
But whoever made me
Got their wires crossed,
Gave me fangs
While I only craved brains,
And I don't have the strength
To open their skulls.
A real pity...
#fastprompt 208:3
Says every man ever.
Be more original," she tried to say,
Except his fangs did the talking
For him, as he leapt upon her throat.
Your 3rd prompt is: "craving"
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All of my life,
My life in undeath, I suppose.
But whoever made me
Got their wires crossed,
Gave me fangs
While I only craved brains,
And I don't have the strength
To open their skulls.
A real pity...
#fastprompt 208:3