#imperialjuly

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Summer Prompts

#imperialprompts

Sweaty palms

Scratching bug bites

Camp fires eyes

Back-porch Shandy

Fireworks

Le plage

Water Ice

Escapism

Sundress exclusive

Rearranging emotions

[hauntedfutures]

Sonnet of Solitude

Strangers of seclusion are silently

Seen so weary soldiers of servitude

Spit spectres of sin - spun to lifelessly

Steal soft gifts of sweetened solitude.

Single sounds of soulless searching has stirred

Stories sold in shears of tragedy.

Slaved in salted saloons, they sing in slurred

Speeches of sick submissive finale.

Savouring songs of seldom sanctuary

Softly sowed the silky seams of safety.

Forgotten souls sunk in solitary -

Scorched by the sons of past society.

Slavery sold severed segregation

Of souls in sanguineous starvation.

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July Prompt #7: Slaving

A commentary on the injustice of slavery

Awfully answered as annoying alliteration

[praggya1993]

Love shouldn't require

So much of your daily upkeep,

Making you fall like

A dreary magnolia petal,

It should make you sail

Water walk with a pride

Brightening up your gaze,

Don't call it love

When it leaves you disconnected

Fragmented into a thousand pieces

Glimmering with tears.

[wordsaregolden22]

The extremely sad truth is:

Being alive is quiet, no matter

How loudly you live. You disappear

Into the noise of everything around you.

People will forget you exist just simply

Because they know that you are in fact

Still existing somewhere, so all must be well.

Death however, is deafening no matter

How quietly you slip away. Although it may

Be ironic, it is true. People notice you no

Longer existing even though they didn’t

Care that you were in the first place. That

Is when you suddenly become important;

When it’s too late.

[a-dying-fallen-angel]

Sharing Lies

I have a new favorite game.

Sharing lies with you.

Our little secrets

That keep us close

And make our hearts beat faster.

I know you should never lie,

But there’s something so beautiful

And something so right in this wrong

That I can’t help myself.

But the best part of it is,

If this all comes crashing down,

At least we burn together.

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Imperial July

#imperialjuly

cravings

savings

ravings

shavings

braving

waving

slaving

paving

[praggya1993]

The way your hands work

Peeling different things for everyone

Wrinkles and lines depict

So much that you want to tell,

Yet silent are your movements

As if you're doing everything in reverence,

As if you're a sentinel

Of a treasure so prone

To being lost,

And even through your ordinary movements

You radiate a magnetic appeal,

That remains etched in my vision.

[praggya1993]

The way your eyes light up

With the spirit of recognition,

Illuminating the environment

Making all questions become vapour

Is the sight that mesmerizes

Makes her gleam

Like the most sacred crystal,

Together they birth

An aura of utmost intimacy,

Without any words

Any action

Any movement.