The Black Knife, a poetry response to GDG writing prompt… by Stephen
Good Tuesday afternoon, Readers and Friends. Today I share my response to this weeks Go Dog Go Cafe Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge, “dangerous thoughts” provided by my dear friend Beth at Midwest Fantasy. Click the picture below to jump to the Cafe and take the challenge yourself or to just scroll around and read what has been shared.
A monarch butterfly dashes through the yard.
Sun has formed its wings, bleeding hot plasma
Into forged shapes of perfection: thin enough
To not call its flight back to ground, an Icarus,
Yet, strong to allow lift.
These are dangerous
Thoughts. Might I, like a monarch be, and dash
Through this field, molded plasmas of the sun
Lifting me off the ground yet always calling me
Back?
Yes… these thoughts endanger: I cannot
Fly now any more than I could when paraffin
Sealed gaps in a soul I cut just like my crayon
Art drawn on the sides of a bookshelf or too
White walls that invited some imagined hero
To slay imagined beasts for imagined damsels.
If
Like a monarch be, then my blood scores paper-thin
Glass with the black knife meant
To carve out the heart of the slain beast.
(C) 2020 Stephen Fuller
Fullbeard Lit 
14 Responses to “The Black Knife, a poetry response to GDG writing prompt… by Stephen”
Black and imaginative dangerous thoughts Stephen…
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Thank you Ivor!
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Wonderful imagination.
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Thank you so much Sadje!
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Wow! The words just leap off the page. 🙂
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Thank you so much.
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I love that it goes from something peaceful and gentle into the more adventurous and dangerous. Nicely done!
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Thank you Rose, this was a fun prompt!
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It really was! I was sorry I didn’t have the time nor brain power for it myself!
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Bleeping bad a** love the layout of the words 🤘
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Awesome feedback, thanks MB!
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Starts out light then that deep, dark ending is amazing. You have such talent Stephen. Thank you!!
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Thank you Beth… in so many ways thank you.
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