A ‘Magnetic Poem’ tanka
tongue licks luscious sweat
finger smears sweet, raw peach juice
bared breasts aching, "please"
heaving deliriously
death goddess smells blood in her
Notes
- For this poem, I decided to return to the ‘Original Set’ on the Magnetic Poetry website;
- At first, the lack of an obvious theme left me utterly rudderless (other sets include ‘Geek’ and ‘Nature’), but then a number of suggestive sex words jumped out at me so I pulled these out to see what might come of them;
- However, this set of words left me dissatisfied – it was too easy to paint the picture of a carnal act with them;
- I wanted to add some sort of a twist so I continued looking through the magnets and chanced upon the word ‘death’, which immediately sent my thoughts flying in the direction of sexy vampires;
- I again opted for a tanka, rather than a haiku;
- The extra two lines (14 syllables) provide me with a greater challenge, as well as with a larger canvas for my word-brush;
- I searched for and found the featured image of the pale, ginger-haired woman with fang marks on her neck after writing the fourth line of the tanka;
- That was after I had decided to give the poem its unexpected ending.
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The magnets certainly take you to some interesting places…(K)
Yeah – for sure. That’s the cool thing about them, right, Kerfe?
❤
David
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oooh this was a fun delight and fright for the senses David. I’m going to close my windows tonight…. hahahahah 💖
🤭 Cindy 🤭
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