My thoughts on the Writing
Another week and another six-sentence story, a dead poet… Hmm… I wonder if this one will be about the poets or the readers. Perhaps a little bit of both… but I guess we will find out soon. I have also recorded this one so you could listen to my voice this week again as if it was an audiobook. I also thought about naming the song that played as I wrote the story, as I often listen to music while writing. And as some of you may know by now, I originally wanted to create a blog for ranting about music but somehow got into sharing my creative writings.
This time there is also a little poem I cooked up, as an intro or so, nothing to do with the prompt itself but my muse was feeling generous tonight.
Listening as I write this one: Vitali – Chaconne (live) played by Emilie Autumn
About the Challenge Itself
Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
PROMPT WORD: BOOKMARK
Others’ Stories can be read here. A few days later I noticed i forgot to add a link… Am sorry, it is here now.
All of my Sixes can be found here.
the Wonderful Blog I found the challenge from: our amazing GirlieOnTheEdge.
Truly, if I had not found this blog, I would probably write less often and probably share even less often…
As work is something that truly does,
Take up too much time of my life
And I often find that the rivers on inspiration
Have runneth dry after I make it home…
Dead Poet – a Six-Sentence Story
The smell of cinnamon in the room, a burnt candle on the bedside table, an empty bottle of Shiraz on the floor beside the ivory bed, and finally… a lady clutching onto a tattered book while tangled in her silken sheets with a tear running down her cheek.
It was almost as if she had fallen in love with the dead poet himself and every breeze through the drapes felt as if he was mocking her in her misery, for that is how comforting she had pictured his touch to be.
Oh, such was the life she led, scribbling sweet nothings into a notebook with her muse unknown to her readers and preaching her undying love and longing for a man who had lived in another century.
It was as if irony had a role in her life, for she never wed or bore any children, other than the books she spawned out one after another in her lifetime and it just happened so, that a young boy had found one on his grandmothers’ shelf and snatched it for himself.
What made him do so, he still can not tell, for he didn’t read it long after his bubbie had passed and a bookmark had caught his attention as he was packing his belongings for a move and the words of our lady struck his heart as he read them out loud with the breeze passing through his windows making the hair on his body stand.
And perhaps… this is how the poets are made.
‘The smell of cinnamon in the room, a burnt candle on the bedside table, an empty bottle of Shiraz on the floor beside the ivory bed, and finally… a lady clutching onto a tattered book while tangled in her silken sheets with a tear running down her cheek.’ Great opening.
Indeed, perhaps it is how poets are made.
Bra-va! *audience clapping subsides*
Such a sensory laden opening sentence that flows into an emotional, poignant story of an impossible, never to be requited love.
Beautiful Six and awesome audio reading of it.
Interesting view of poets and their nascence, and nicely read too.
Not sure to focus my compliment on the visual aspect or the final-sink-of-the-hook ending.
what the heck, both were the best part of this Six.
The opening sentence is captivating and sets the scene for a truly touching tale.
What she wrote influenced the younger generations. I suppose that could be for good or bad. In this case it may have been good.
It is that one insight which makes a poet, not necessarily a moment.
I believe you’re on to something. So much of poetry is inspired by tragic and lonely reflection. This Six made me think.
I remember telling you, not long ago, of the Victorian aura you create – among other creations…
Emilie Autumn…The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls…Chaccone…see where I am gettin’ at?
Your Six…let me echo what Doug, Mimi, Clark & Denise voiced.
Laced or Unlaced.
A beautiful, poetic story. The opening sentence has such rich imagery. And she may not have had children, but she certainly gave birth to creativity in at least one other, it would seem…
Lovely reading too.
Truly captivating wording, took me right to century old sweet dusty room.
Great reading – made me wish for a longer story then only 6 sentences
Beautiful, sensual write, and I’m sure that’s it, how poets are made!