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Black eyes like the night

Her perfume is a poison

From her well, I drink

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Foreboding and dark, love it!

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What’s more hexing than feminine beauty?

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A plant sale... but that’s probably just me😅

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😂

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I don’t think it’s apparent at all, this poem is great. It’s a moment captured in detail, and that is poetry, but it’s also more than that because it hints at a larger story, which I personally think is cool.

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We joke about it

“He’s putting a hex on us”

But he’s not laughing.

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Very cool, there’s a whole story in here. Made me wonder what the context here is and I love when short poems can do that.

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Precious crystal ball,

Show me the face of the one

Who stole my daughter.

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This one could also be in the the micro fiction category. Nice concise use of narrative.

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Thanks! I was just thinking it’s more of a prose poem or micro-micro story, haha. I’m not a poet by nature, as I suppose is apparent.

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Begging for release

He kneels broken desperate

Curse tightens its hold

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There’s a nice juxtaposition in here between release and tightening. You got me feeling a little unmoored and I like it.

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Oct 5, 2023Liked by Honeygloom

Dawnlight shining bright

Burning, smoke rising, making

Nosferatu dust

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Nice! Love the contrast between first and last lines, life and death. Very cool.

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Oct 5, 2023Liked by Honeygloom

Huh...I just thought of a vampire getting vaporized by sunlight...it wasn't intentional!😂 To be honest I was just trying to figure out where I could fit "nosferatu" into the form...😁

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I’m glad you succeeded because now I really want to write Nosferatu dust into a story somewhere as like a potion ingredient or something.

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Awesome!

“Eye of newt, virgin’s bust; ancient Nosferatu dust…”😂

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“You’re so hexy” 😂 I love it.

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