Rachel's Floetry

  • Will you always love me?

    Will you always love me? With cliff edges at my fingertips, tigers at my heels, and thunder in my chest? When ghosts cling to my back while I flavor dinner with my weeping? When I come home hissing like a glass-breaker? When I’m sighing, sinking into sofa cushions, and I have no strength to pull…

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  • Prompt: Hollow

    Her heathered hands gleam in the sun as she hollows a hill with ease. This hallowed being who speaks in harps, her hair, the glimmering seas. Her aura, heavy, as a hammer. Like a feather, she hovers high. Our holy Goddess hums her healing, as sweet as a lullaby. Art by Yuchi I had a…

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  • Prompt: Ephemeral

    Life, ephemeral. Grief, perpetual. How deep her knees burrow into soil. A thumb of tallow, a gasping candle, swallowed by gusts of ramming winds. From the gravel, handless arms rise, and tremble. Endless sorrow, its cries guttural. Those left after death face pain, insurmountable. Art by FallanDark You can find this poem, and the rest…

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  • Prompt: Clandestine

    To the royal gardens, the Empress of the East retreats. Heart torn by the Emperor, and his mistress. The Empress, hair claret as rubies, waters her scarlet roses with her sorrow. A clandestine letter from the unmarried King of the West. Tied with carmine ribbon — a proposal. Lovers from rival realms. On horseback, the…

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  • Prompt: Angst

    With sharp jagged teeth, this angst gnaws. My heart squeezed by the devil’s claws. Dread carves in me like a pitsaw. Fetor of bodies. Fresh, and raw. No adventurer should wander these caves. For treasure, I ignored human remains. In darkness, I maunder. To Gods, I pray. My life squandered. It is death I now…

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  • Prompt: Escape

    An enemy country kidnapped a princess, already betrothed. Locked her in the castle’s tallest tower, fortified with stone. The uncaring prince did not agonize over her lover back home. What he didn’t know, was the princess was a mage. What he didn’t know, was she had means of escape. What he didn’t know, was a…

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  • Prompt: Silence

    A lonesome, crying orphan, no more than four. The broken silence of the forest. The aftermath of war. Antlers like thick branches. A regal shadow floats. Above the green, it asks, “My dear, are you alone?” “D-deer?” The toddler hiccups, enamored by glowing fireflies. The child starved of warmth, an immeasurable amount of time. The…

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  • Prompt: Mystic

    A selfish merchant loved his coin more than his selfless wife. His mistake was made plain. A restless year after she died. He climbed a thousand staircases to seek the old mystic. “Please,” the merchant begged. “Take my gold coin! My silks! My diamonds!” “I wish to see her at the expense of my luxuries.”…

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  • Prompt: Discombobulate

    Oh! My days! What was that blasted phrase! Oh, damnation! Dagnabbit incantation! Must’ve spilled a little grog on my magic tomes’ pages. Hell’s teeth! Curse my mispronounced sorcery. The result? An enchanted travesty. The hex, meant to plunder my rival of rest. Just a few days. Instead, a discombobulated rabbit, he became. A summons from…

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  • Prompt: Dream

    A freshly baked blueberry pie rested on his doorstep. What floundering tippler misplaced this pastry at first light? He jested, perhaps it was left with intention — sans-poison. Crafted with affection? Hah! Nothing, but a dream, he gleaned. No lady could ever love a beast as frightening as he. A feminine squeak. She unceremoniously toppled…

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