A little mottled green gold snake
Who slithers quickly through the grass
Thwarts the eagle’s swift, sudden plunge
(And, with apologies to Shakespeare, but I've been wanting to express this for years--)
Proud Titania! How could you forgive
Your even prouder mate, who conceived
For his sport and your humiliation,
That you should fall in love
With a conceited, ass-headed bumpkin?
Now October is the cruelest month,
Whose savage burning winds have set
Forests, hills, cities, mountains, on fire.
How welcome would come the rain,
On a land parched for moisture,
yet all that falls is ash.
son of six word story implies
sexual reproduction in phrases and sentences
lacking the requisite physique hinders matters
text being hermaphroditic is more likely
My senses have all grown cold
Nothing I see, hear, or taste
Has the power to lift me
Above this constant, dull, oppressive lethargy
enchaining my limbs, deadening my mind.
Up close, the moon looks dead.
A wasteland of rocks and dust.
From Earth, the view is different.
It looks like a shining pearl
Sitting on a black velvet blanket.
Strange, the effects of distance perception.
Tillane steps in, his hackles raised,
Then sees the posts before, unpraised,
And cries, and writes this allegory,
All be praised for six-word stories...
Maleficent, fey sorceress garbed in red,
Nightly you weave your misanthropic spells.
Curses awaken the cold living dead,
Some bleeding, others have already bled
Their final drop, but still arise,
For you, Queen of the Despised.
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