Plastic Lions & Fantastic Phantoms

First Haiku
Warrior with wings
Nurtures flowers in her hands
Life rises from flames

Second Haiku
Chase after your star
The candled stag stirs the wine
Angel deals judgement

Third Haiku
Dragons' hearts are strong
Dance blind and love knowingly
And hold the child close

Nonet
Warrior with wings stands in the sun
Nurtures flowers held in her hands
Living wand rises from flames
Chase your falling star while
The stag stirs the wine
Passing judgement
Dragon heart
Blind dance
Home

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Deck used: Ostara Tarot (ipad app version)
Cards drawn (one line for each):
The Sun
The Empress
Ace of Wands
The Star
King of Cups
Judgement
Strength
The Lovers
Queen of Coins

For challenge 6 - Drabble, song, poem or haiku

Prompt: Deep and Dark

In fairytale wells
Water waits for wish-fuelled coins
Down deep in dark earth

For challenge 7 - Happy Haiku

Smile
drop my smile for yours
I cannot match with my eyes
the secrets you share

Bubbly
run the water then
plunge my hand, froth up bubbles
I sink into warmth

Hope
everyone needs
a purpose out in the world
I hope to find mine

Fruitful
I bite the apple
taste the pomegranate seeds
for myself not him

Bliss
little box of songs
Beatling, Bobbing, Monkeeing
my blissful moments

Daedalus, Demeter, Minos
Icarus, Persephone, Ariadne
You can't take the sky away from me

I'll forever fly regardless
I'll learn more than you can teach
I'll overcome the darker days
And try to live the rest
Please don't pretend I can't

Don't ever forget I'm young
I live to be confused
Confounded, dumbfounded

Daedalus, Hades, Prometheus, Theseus
Icarus, Persephone, Pandora, Ariadne
They all cry
Don't you dare
Try to take my sky away from me

Poor Icarus perhaps
Should have heeded
His father's words of waves
And harmful heat
For he skimmed the salt spray
And rose through the air
As he flew toward his beacon
Daedalus was forced to watch
As the sun snatched those crafted wings
Forged from feather, wax and fear
And freedom hopes
And plunged his son with fateful hand
Down into the boiling sea

Icarus, Amelia, Amy
You lost your sky
You lost your lives
You know the water cannot keep you

Neither can the ground lay claim
To Ariadne
Nor could the dead river and snow
Trap Persephone
Never could a simple lock upon a box
Lay waste to Pandora's
Fruitful curiosity

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With all due nods and thanks and all to Jos Whedon (Firefly Theme (Ballad of Serenity))
Vixy & Tony (Mal's Song, Persephone)
Andi Neate (Icarus)
and Wytchcroft (daeda)

Black and biting night
Gunpowder thick in the air
New stars bright and brief



Northern lights shimmer
across condensation on
my window and fade

graveyard memories etched in stone
bricks revive heated thoughts and words and actions
family relationship talked out over the phone
forgiven perhaps as the day's wary motions
yet not so now
I seek wearily for rest and end
worries etched deep upon my heavy brow
for those in line, their apologies left to send
why fear their response?
why more fear my own?
when can I know
my obscured inner workings
my mind becomes too much my foe

one world there
one world not
one world remembered
one world forgot
one man happy
one man sad
one man appreciating what
one man never had

light all the lights that never were here
secure all the locks
and leave the cat to uncertain fate
sealed within your lead-lined box


inspired by a Wytch, the Doctor and that Cat

stairs that lead nowhere
doors to other worlds and times
ceiling vistas. home

this disconcerting
uncertainty, entirely
unforgivable

Swirling Entropy

madness, like a train spiralling
down along a whirl of gravity
defying tracks until one day
you know you'll just lose control
or run out of track.
That the tracks will fall out
from under you
somehow is inevitable.

as time tolls on, you begin to
feel more Lucy Jordan
and less like Lady Greensleeves

your room, your house, your life
and your computer fall to clutter
how do you expect your mind
to survive and not
fling you into
utter madness in the end

I go on and survive the best I can
as life rolls away and onwards
time weaves and wanders
as I grow ever more aware of my plight
the best I can do to stay sane is write