Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: outlaw before smile
For the first time in my life, I am beginning to know what true love and happiness are. Love and happiness, not in their popular, diluted forms, but rather in their purest and rawest forms. I am learning to live without fear or inhibitions, and it is your beautiful soul I have to thank for this second chance, this rebirth and restoration of my hope.
Before I had known her
Before I could see
Before we had met
Before there were three
Before she had run
Before she could tell
All had been good
All had seemed swell
and then...
Clearly I saw it
Surely I could see
It covered her face
The way she smiled at me
Something was lurking
Deep down in her skin
It wasn't a demon
Perhaps just a sin
I cannot deny it
It was something I saw
Her presence, her spirit
So much like an outlaw
A cruel smile curled
From her sick twisted lips
And right in that moment
Was when I became transfixed
By her beauty, her luster, her beautiful stare
I knew I should leaver her, but I wouldn't dare
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Story prompt:
In the nearest book to hand, find:
The seventh word on page 12
The tenth word on page 37
The 30th word on page 64
Write a story or a poem that uses all of these words, contextualizing them and providing a conclusion of some sort.
Vary at will.
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slapdashmonuments
Yay, this is great! I am very sorry I never responded to this before (this is my own prompt from another account; I contain multitudes!). I really like it!!