Horror Haiku Club Prompt

Jun 26, 2024

Winged warrior women of Old Norse mythology.

Your prompt is VALKYRIE.

The pulse of wing beats
Over a hushed battlefield
The dead await fate

They landed on battlefields to choose the fiercest slain warriors to live in Freyja’s hall, Folkvangr and in Odin’s hall, Valhalla.

Jun 26Liked by Honeygloom

I went out fighting

but Valkyries passed me by.

No Valhalla for me

though I lie embraced

with sword in my adversary's guts.

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How do you choose which

Of us is deserving when

We were made to fight?