Stardust Stanzas

The POEMing October 2023 found poetry challenge using Neil Gaiman’s Stardust as source text

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Guilty fantasies / light / the matches / of lust

Found poems sourced from Stardust by Neil Gaiman, arranged on the Trick or Tarot

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Stave off / the indignities of apples // waiting for someone / to twist / their fortune

Found poem sourced from Stardust by Neil Gaiman, arranged on the Dark Mansion tarot

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A well-brought-up / lady would not / change her mind / if she had / one of her own

Found poem sourced from Stardust by Neil Gaiman, arranged on The Muse tarot

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The foolish / made / by osmosis

Found poem sourced from Stardust by Neil Gaiman, arranged on the Millennial Tarot

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She had a tongue/ that could paint filthy ballads / across the horizon

Found poem sourced from Stardust by Neil Gaiman, arranged on the Deviant Moon Tarot

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Distracted skins dance / to the dire songs / of the hungry and vocal

Found poem sourced from Stardust by Neil Gaiman, arranged on the Luminous Void tarot

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Tiny clouds tease / the shape of a / secret

Found poem sourced from Stardust by Neil Gaiman, arranged on The Wild Unknown tarot

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The dusty blue sheen / of twilight clustered / in her eyes

Found poem sourced from Stardust by Neil Gaiman, arranged on the Anima Mundi tarot

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I am / a spare-room filled / with oddments / to break

Found poem sourced from Stardust by Neil Gaiman, arranged on The Lost Hollow tarot

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I no longer have a name / I am lace / capacious bosom / cheeks for sale / to tempter / strangers

Found poems sourced from Stardust by Neil Gaiman, arranged on the Deviant Moon Tarot

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I come from a caravan / of perplexity / luring passersby / with delightful / shiny things

Found poem sourced from Stardust by Neil Gaiman, arranged on the Cute and Creepy Oracle.

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Ticket / little monkey / let’s see a smile

Found poem sourced from Stardust by Neil Gaiman, arranged on the Midway Arcana Tarot

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A glass memory / dropped / in the darkness / smashing midair // the debt / of a dream

Found poem sourced from Stardust by Neil Gaiman, arranged on The Lioness Oracle Tarot

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She painted spells on her skin

Found poem sourced from Stardust by Neil Gaiman, arranged on the Midway Tarot

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I flew a kite / with your name in its string / until it snapped / paper endearments / transmitting on the air

Found poem sourced from Stardust by Neil Gaiman, arranged on The Naked Heart tarot

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The moon / daydreamed / of leaving to be / a strange coin // although unusual / grey space rock / did not glitter

Found poem sourced from Stardust by Neil Gaiman, pgs 1 - 6, arranged on The Muse tarot

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Starting October 1:

31 days

31 found poems

Neil Gaiman’s Stardust