darkness – willowdot21

FOWC With Fandango — Marionette A Double Mirrored Etheree.

Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).

Today’s word is “marionette.”

Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.

I have taken up the challenge today and written a dark hollween type poem for this prompt. Then I chose some music to go with it and they are rather dark. So here is a dark prompt!.

Marionette

Held
By strings
I dangle
My every move
By your desire
No free will for me now
Though I spin and pirouette
My spirit is no longer mine
I must dance to your will for all time
You’re my master, I your marionette
Cut
These strings
And I will
Fall . I sold my
Soul to the devil
You demon, you tricked me
Now , trapped I cannot escape
You do as you please with my life.
I have found a knife my solution
My life’s blood comforts me as I escape.

THIS IS PART OF FANDANGO’S ONE WORD CHALLENGE.

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 482. DARK and Mind.

Part of Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Haiku Challenge.

Thursday photo prompt: Darkness #writephoto

For visually challenged writers, the image shows a bank of dark clouds rolling in across a sunny moor, casting its shadow on the hills of the horizon.

This week’s prompt ~ Darkness

And so the darkness fell with a crash and a clatter waking up early evening, who was feeling rather drawn out. “Where the hell have you been it’s nine fifteen and I need some rest” Eve Nin complained. Darkness huffed and puffed and looked at his watch, ” I’m not late it mid July and I am bang on time.” He replied. “Well” Eve laughed, “your right about the bang, you made enough noise arriving to wake the dead! ” Darkness and Eve both jumped as a voice from below them screeched, “He bloody did and we are not impressed, we set our alarm for October 1st, and it’s nowhere near that yet.”

Night put his Horlicks down and inquired what all the unholy row was about! Eve said it was nothing to do with her , her shift was finished and she off for a drink with Dawn . Darkness stepped forward akwardly. “It’s my fault, I tripped on the horizon, Eve had a low hold of the sun and it blinded me temporarily. As I fell I cut my knee on the course grass, I have very tender skin you know. The noise I made woke the dead! ” Night took a sip of his Horlicks and said almost kindly, “Would you like a cup”

Darkness sank down next to night and said, ” Yes please” As Eve and Dawn downed their third Sambuca and relaxed, Night and the Darkness sat quietly with their hot drinks and waited for the dead to go back to sleep.

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This is part of Sue Vincent’s Thursday Photo Challenge. #writephoto.

Shut out.

Shut out

Lost am l

In this dark tunnel

Without hope

Bleak heart full

Of much regret and sadness

No hope left for me.

🖤🖤🖤

Joy denied

Shut out in the cold

No entry

Just exiled

There’s no chance of redemption

My soul is not free.

The Darkness Fell

Today is day 19 of Just Jot it January and out prompt is brought to us by Kerry at Her Headache and the prompt is Darkness. Do visit Kerry’s blog.

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The Darkness Fell

The darkness edged in slowly, unsure quite where to put it’s feet safely without stepping in to something nasty. You know when they say night fell or darkness fell well that is just what the darkness was afraid of. Falling.

So gingerly, noisily darkness advanced from the horizon towards me.

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As I watched, all was going well until the darkness stubbed it’s toe on the side of a hill. That was it, all hell let loose the darkness came crushing down cluttering and crashing around.

Shocked now I stood astounded unsure of what to do. Well how often do you get to see the darkness hopping around on one foot, foul mouthed and dribbling? No you are correct it is not a common sight.

The most astounding side effect of the darkness’s fall was the shower, almost waterfall of lights and stars.Beautiful beyond belief all showery and starry. Looking out on what was now night it was strangely beautiful with darkness scrabbling around on the ground trying to get to it’s feet trying ( without success to regain (1) it’s dignity and (2) it’s balance which it had lost.. not just misplaced but totally lost, not under the cushions or on top of the bookcase lost but proper painfully lost .

Behind the darkness came the twilight tired and thin and looking somehow exhausted. Being so much more delicate and having better sight the twilight could not understand how the darkness had fallen the way it had. Then as it had done, many many times before, taking a deep breath the long suffering twilight stooped down to scoop up the darkness.

The moon confused and annoyed was not sure if he was too late or too early… thrown by the lack of dark, the night was annoyed and out of sorts. With all this going on there was not much hope of sleep. So I got up and made myself a coffee and dived into my kindle.

Dark Thoughts

Dark is the night , heavy this pain I bear

Empty feelings , black thoughts emotions flair.

The pain is eating me up pounding in my head

Evil, sugar sweet voices tell me I’d be better off dead!

I cannot breath my chest is too tight

The horrors crawl towards me every night

They engulf my very essence strangle my soul

The rip me open and devour me whole.

So dark the night so dark my soul in such plight

I need someone to find me and lead me to the light.

One more cut, one more pill, I pray it will be my last

My ugly face, my ugly body into the black pit be cast.

Cut my arms until they bleed

Cover them up to hide my need.

Have another drink and take more pills

Fall into oblivion to escape my ills.

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For those suffering with depression

Evil Lurking

Lurking in the shadows clawing at the doors

Evil knows no boundaries and it knows no laws.

It feeds on ignorance and delights in all you fear

It will eat you up from the inside, scream all you want, no one will hear!

Bury your head in the sand cover up your ears

Evil will have the last laugh at all your fears.

Run away from the darkness, it will do you no good

Evil will not be out run, what made you think you could?

Watch your back mind your step it lurks round ever corner

It invades all parts of life every brick stone and fauna.

Lurking in the shadows clawing at the doors

Evil knows no boundaries and it knows no laws.

Downing soul. Nonnette

Silently in the soft dark of night
My soul closes down then takes flight.
Black dark sky dotted with stars
Lights my body strewn with scars.
Hopelessness holds me
Down dark and free
Is someone
There for
Me.

JusJoJan : No hope slope.

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Slowly, silently an inch at a time

The darkness covers me like slime

Hastily built walls afford no defense

Hope conspicuous by absence

Tendrils of dread grab

At your sad soul

Swallows you whole

No hope

Slope

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