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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

I watched “Dark Shadows” when I went home for lunch every day. Back at school, during third period I would give all the gory details to fellow fanatics of the soap opera.

So, this prompt is right up my alley. LOL

HONEYGLOOM ~

our creature of darkness

☾“Dark Shadows“ Star:

Barnabas Collins' kin

Stellar Collinwood drama

Space-time's edge, fangs bare☽☽

1. Celestial Vampire:

Cosmic leech spins fast

Draining life from companion

Stars locked in death dance

2. Pop Star Vampire Star:

Stellar diva sings

"Baby, I'll suck you dry, yeah!"

Top of the star charts

3. Film Noir Detective:

Dark sky, darker deeds

Vampire star's the perp, see?

Its partner, the mark

4. Zen Garden:

Cosmic grains of sand

One star rakes, one disappears

Balance disturbed, peace

5. Foodie's Delight:

Celestial buffet

Vampire star slurps stellar soup

Cosmic fine dining

6. Environmentalist:

Stellar ecosystem

Disrupted by greedy star

Nature's balance lost

7. Shakespearean:

What light through yonder

Space breaks? 'Tis a vampire star,

And Juliet dims

8. Cyberpunk:

Neon blue data stream

Star-core hacked, energy drained

System crash imminent

9. Wild West:

Lone star rides the sky

Vampire rustler steals its herd

Cosmic tumbleweed

10. Romance Novel:

Passionate embrace

Two stars locked in cosmic dance

One fades, one burns bright

11. Sports Commentary:

And the crowd goes wild!

Vampire star takes the lead, folks

Companion's losing

12. Political Satire:

Star promises change

Siphons resources instead

Same old song and dance

13. Horror Movie:

In space, no one hears

The smaller star's dying scream

Vampire feeds, content

14. Children's Bedtime Story:

Twinkle twinkle big

Star, how I wonder why you're

Eating your small friend

15. Superhero Comic:

Galactic Guardian

Swoops in to save dying star

From vampire villain

16. Medical Drama:

Code blue! Losing mass!

Vampire star transfusion stat!

Clear! *cosmic zap* Stable

17. Reality TV Show:

Next on "Star Survivor":

Who'll be voted off tonight?

Vampire plays to win

18. Tech Startup:

Disruptive star-up

Efficiently transfers mass

Scaling rapidly

19. Ancient Mythology:

Celestial gods feast

Ambrosia of stardust flows

Immortals consume

20. Social Media Influencer:

Living my best life

#VampireStarLife #Blessed #Glow

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Honeygloom's avatar

🤩 A.P. Is right, you have outdone yourself! I particularly love 14 & 20, but man, these are all so good!

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

You all inspire me! You have a niche on Substack that is original and brings out creative souls. It’s an incredible gift.

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Honeygloom's avatar

☺️

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Twenty variations on a dual star system toxic relationship - you outdid yourself Gloria!

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

I wrote the first one about a television actor. The rest just came over the course of the day.

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

My astral skirts swirl

In this cosmic flamenco

As you stand, poised, drained.

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Honeygloom's avatar

So nice! An exhausting cosmic dance and neither partner can leave🖤

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Amos's avatar

Feelings don't exist

In the cold gaze of physics

You still lose your soul

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Honeygloom's avatar

Here’s a question I am in no way capable of intelligently discussing, but am going to ask anyway: does physics allow for a soul?

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Amos's avatar

Probably depends on the physicist you ask, lol. There certainly are strict Christians who are physicists and I assume the same is true of most religions.

God(s), He or She or they, always kinda hide in the questions, right? Before you know what gravity is you think a being pushes the Sun across the sky, etc.

Most of the discussion that vaugely related to this topic nowadays probably revolves around weird stuff with quantum mechanics. Stuff like a particle exists in multiple places at the same time, as shown by theory and experiment, until you "measure" where it is at which time the particle sort of "chooses" a specific position. Well you need an intelligence to "measure" something so how do you define that, maybe that's a "soul" that's more than our physical being etc.

This is my meager understanding. Someone more intelligent than me might be able to discuss more intelligently. I just write the poems, ma'am.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Better than I could do! I really just want souls to turn out to be dark matter… which I know nothing about🤔

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Amos's avatar

Well, I'm pretty sure my soul is black as night. So, dark matter here we come 😉

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Honeygloom's avatar

I’ve sold mine numerous times to various people so I have no idea how I’m even alive with this dark matter void. Science is so weird.

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

True!

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

It soon gets tiresome,

Siphoning essence, without,

The thrill of the hunt... 😎

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Honeygloom's avatar

Nice take!! It does seem like it would get dull, doesn’t it?🖤

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Thanks! It definitely lacks the glamour of being a proper vampire, for sure. Haha... 😎

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Dylan Delgado's avatar

Loving these astronomy/cosmology inspired prompts! Anyway:

Sipping on your essence

Waiting for the day you're spent

Before I explode

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Honeygloom's avatar

There is so much to unpack here! Some cosmic predestination, but slowly, knowing the end destroys them both. Well done🖤

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Star sucker

Double dipper

Drain delighter.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Always a master of the alliteration🖤

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MS Rivera's avatar

I’m tethered to you,

Forced to gorge on light and fire

You won’t let me go

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh I love this reversal!🖤

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Slurping starstuff, starved for your

juicy molecules, we gravitate

toward a barycentre of satisfaction

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Honeygloom's avatar

I love it when you teach me new words🖤

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Never ever seen or heard of a barycentre before.

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

I love this prompt! It is perfect for Haiku.

I’ll be back.

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