What #Magic will be #Conjured within this #Cauldron #Mug? Share what YOU would fill it with this #HallowSeason
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tryst with
sand dunes of desert thar
way back year 2000 it was
emergency rations
water in chagals
(canvas bag)
open jeep
my dog had a brown #collar
sand was everywhere
tongue coarse ears full
sought an oasis
#conjured
semblance of life
keekar trees
and cactus groves
~rev
#vss365
We don't even notice the #collars they #conjured up around our necks anymore.
We've accepted them as part of ourselves.
They protect us from the evils lurking outside after all.
Until one day someone can't take it anymore.
They step over the threshold.
And everything changes.
#vss365
«Why don’t you just… leave?»
«I can’t»
«Why?»
«It’s like… its like he’s #conjured me into his dreams. & now I’m trapped in a world that isn’t mine, & the walls are all smooth and obsidian & there’s no windows &, and I can’t find the doors»
«Fuck, Ree. Abjure»
«What?»
«Magik 101, Ree. Abjure»
#vss365
She had #conjured
figments
in varying hues,
as if could salve
afflictive abuse
—kind hallucinations,
caught in dissociations—
a selfish endeavor,
‘tis true.
#vss365
Found among bones
And decayed wishes —
Remnants of a love
That took too long to discover
Having romanticized ideals
Of a perfect being
That could replenish
Hollowed reservoirs
And make seamless
The fragmented self
Awaiting a magic touch
That was always
Meant to be
#Conjured
From within
#vss365
Tom’s mind played tricks on him at night. Right now, for example, it’d #conjured an image of a hideous dressing gown behind his door.
He shuddered. “Don’t be ridiculous,” he told himself. “It’s just a monster.”
The monster roared reassuringly & he drifted back to sleep. #vss365
Shem had watched Rina & Fisk duel, fear warring with excitement in her chest. The magic had exploded from the girl & the boy had folded it in his hands like a strongman does a girder.
But this?
The outline of a door, thin as chalk, began to appear, #conjured from her need and offered blood. #vss365
Terrible pain he #conjured, burning stabbing flickering pain, constant as stars. She wished for sweet nothingness, but could not speak to beg him for it.
#vss365
I’d been fascinated by them for years, had #conjured up a sense of kinship with them. I knew that meeting one, touching it, would be magical. But now, facing one for real, I acknowledged how foolish that dream had been. I wanted to pet it. It wanted to eat me. We were not the same.
#vss365
#hbp94
She #conjured a doll
Stuck a large #needle
on the left hand
She looked at him
Tied to the tree
He wailed.
slapped the doll's face
Left and right
repeatedly.
Pulled out an eye
He was bleeding and screaming
Like she had done
Years of abuse & torture
Ended
When she snapped
the doll's neck.
#vss365
"This is the food receptacle?" The voice was so sudden and startling, she thought she'd #conjured it from thin air and loneliness.
"Er, kind of? That's the toilet." She was alone on her ship. She knew she was alone. There was nobody around for parsecs.
"The food exit, yes!"
#vss365 (conjure) #SFF
Even in a stranger’s house, the smell of bacon grease and eggs #conjured a familiar nostalgia. Of Saturday mornings, stuffing her face with hash browns and doing chores. But she didn’t know the people here. They treated her well. Called her by name, but she felt no warmth towards them.
#vss365
The world I see
Is the one I #conjured
I keep peace in reach
And the unsure uncured
Until the truth can breech
And mingle with my ignorance
To deliver it
To place where understanding
Leads to contentment
#vss365
#poetry
This thing we thought was inevitable
ain’t happening
All the wild scenarios we #conjured up
just ain't happening
Things go down for a reason
or maybe not
Good or bad
tis all a roll of the dice
We gotta adapt on the fly
Dance with chaotic happenstance
and embrace life's randomness
#vss365 #poem
The interview went well. The boss was a chimpanzee in a seersucker #suit. He didn't say anything, but nodded to a bowl of fruit on the desk, which I assumed was part of the benefits package. I'm pretty sure pizza #conjured this dream, but I really needed that job.
#vss365 #vssdaily #amwriting
Nothing changes.
Not really.
A thousand years ago,
Teenagers were still being fools,
And the aged clucked with dismay.
The lonely sat in melancholy
While the dreamers #conjured words to explain
How it ain't supposed to be this way.
It can be better.
Do it like this, ya mooks.
#vss365
Like strangers, words
land like doves passed
hand to hand, a summoned
salutation, #conjured
courtesy, as though it wasn't
an encore to being
sawed in half by the
disappearing man
#vss365 #poetry
Thoughts spring from a mind
that is throbbing like a pulse
She dreams
hopes,
expects
words she meant to say
but never said
wicked thoughts #conjured up
faithful lovers spurned
reckless choices made
If she could only rewind
that relentless clock
to dispel those sad regrets
#vss365
Our troops were on the border, enduring a burning heat. We shuffled toward them like ghosts #conjured by the desert. They were startled by our number, as we were by their purpose. They were there to keep us in, not others out. For there were none heading north, only us fleeing south.
#vss365
