A background of diffuse red flames across a faded scroll in lower left, overlaid by black text. 2-image poem.
"Tracing the GLOW of Hushed Despair
I
Past industrial fridges where strange meat
wore icicles for armor,
where stange folk caught out on
invented identity were kept,
stood pens full of fabulous beasts
from unmapped spheres
tappable only by wizards,
waiting to be rendered into magic.
A furtive gang crept, not to free maneaters
into the wild; naive doom was not their goal.
Their higher calling was an apparatus
draining ley lines, an infernal source
of hushed despair acrosss the whole world
squatting like a permanent guest
within too many souls crying,
will you still love me,
when I let these slippery twins twist me?
in nightly nightmares full of horror."
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Same flame on scroll background as first image. Second page of poem:
"II
Perilous was that gang's tread;
precious amulets and spells barely warded
them from their carefully triangulated quarry
buried in bouncy stacks
of manticore-hair magic carpets:
A profane text and a rune loom beside,
weaving more than leviation into rugs;
Ancient dark curses encoded to convert all who rode
long enough into shackled genies, hypnotized by light
and illusion in opulent doom beyond all dooms.
An accomplice still at the pens now opened
cages as the rogues whistled high then low in
eerie beauty, summoning magic flame
Of phoenix, pegasus, dragon, and free djinn
all roaring through the whole building.
The destroyers of magic died in noble sacrifice:
utterly breaking the world’s curse. The magic flames
flowed into the spell-contollers, ending in agony
hundreds of vile man-parasites shackling the world.
EchoGnomics"
👉"The GLOW of #Hushed_Despair"
Prompt credits: #GLOWprompt
#WeirdMicro & #GrimScribe February 16-18 prompts
#Foxprose #InventedIdentity #IciclesforArmor #Slipperytwinstwist
#WildwalkPrompt #twists
#bedroomeyes #maneater #willyoustillloveme
#vss365 #bouncy