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erniet's avatar

Beauteous creature

My theft will seal the bargain

Unnatural love

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Honeygloom's avatar

I see what you did there in the middle line😂 And I love that there’s a joke in the middle of this contractual language kind of underscoring the farce these “relationships” were. Really cool🖤

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Selkie seal of approval

Graciously granted.

Whisker- wiggles and ruses

Rushes to enrich men’s wishes.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Hey, the lighter side of selkies🖤

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David Perlmutter's avatar

...until she finds where he hid the sealskin.

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Honeygloom's avatar

And then she’s off…

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A.C. Cargill, All-Human Author's avatar

The skin of my soul

Is but a shadow of self

Wear it not, I pray

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ooo, this is very eerie, the idea of someone else wearing your skin. I love this take🖤

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Ika Wright's avatar

Fun take Honeygloom. This one is such a sad lore in a way.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Thank you!! A lot of the stories are pretty sad, but I also love that there are supposedly whole families of these seal people under the waves. It’s fun to daydream about 😶‍🌫️😜

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Nico Sakaki's avatar

Shapeshifter stripped bare

She will never stop yearning

For her stolen skin

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They emerge, unbound

Slip through ephemeral forms

You were made to shift

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Honeygloom's avatar

Beautiful, as always, I particularly love the pov shift in the third line of the second poem. So cool to bring the reader into the fantasy that way🖤

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ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

I use a computer, so no autocorrect.

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ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

No, selfie.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ah! Ok! Well it’s funny both ways😂 And I love the rhymes you’ve got going on!

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ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

Thank you!!

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ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

I took a selfie

When I was young and healthy**

Age creeps so stealthily

**I ain't old and sick (yet!). Doing comedy here, people...

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Honeygloom's avatar

😂Thanks for clarifying. Did you mean, “I took a selkie”? Autocorrect is a bitch on this one. Did it to me several times😂

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ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

Sorry, I took a liberty with your prompt. The selkies made me do it!

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