“Amusingly, annoyingly amorous,” the
Blushing bride
Characterized her new husband, cheekily(canned applause & laughter that sounds uncanny)
“Demands?” she asked against the picture of the
ebullient, slightly more grainy crowd.
“Far from it, he only loves without gain,” she wills herself not to
Go straight into his familiar arms,
However, the grainy pictures are
Isolated, unable to stray from their positions
Just “deja-vu” she thought, an odd
Kick-off to the start of their new
Life, the life that keeps restarting like a loop
Mangled inside a tight compact vcr film
No one knows how the video replays
Over and over at
Precisely 12 midnight
Questions that
Remind the living of their
Short mortality and the tragically short-lived couple
They vacuum themselves inside the living dead cells
Using a layer of
Vacuous, static, video-hazed void
White and Black and
Xanthic, an ancient hue that covers their film
Yore that compliments the ghostly machine, as they cannot climb to the star’s
Zenith, only to re-live the most beautiful zenith of their shared lives, a heaven they created in life, in death
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Comments (9)
This feels like watching an old movie. And I forgot I was reading an abecedarian. It very smooth.. Wonderful piece.
Nice free verse flow for your abecedarian! "Til death do us part" doesn't apply here! Whether you intended it, the unevenness of the lines tend to mirror the ups and downs of committed relations, do they not? There are long days and short days, steep climbs and short runs, life like a river meeting drought or abundance depending on the changing seasons. Where water and earth meet, we find grace.
Ooooo, this was so dark and hauntingly beautiful! It had such a smooth flow to it! Very well done Merly!
Hauntingly romantic.
Oh you picked a great topic, and you did so well with it. This is not an easy challenge but you managed to make it appear easy.
Well done, Melissa! Quite a bit of depth in this.
That's amazing!!🥰
dig the choice of the beetle juice vibes :)
What a concept. Wow! Awesome.