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anthologia IX

23/10/2016

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Poetry Prompt: Curse
Poets: Dorian Sounde, Brittaina Goffy and Ambrozya
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My Curse by Dorian Sounde

​Deep inside my veins, there's this bitter sweet,
a pain flows through my life-force, 
but it carries me,
I feel it.
Taken hostage by the notion that I'll be ok,
too much time wasted looking over my shoulder, waiting for trauma.

The Joo-Joo that the Hoodoo magic man sent has clung to my essence,
It is all that I am, all that I know.
At every corner, I turn, and it's there.
In the darkness, it is my light.

I embrace it, or else it'd drag me down.

It's not what I wanted, it's not what I planned for, but it is here, and it has consumed me.
I tried to beat it, push it down.
Fear turned to loathing, loathing to interest...once I was interested, it took control.

It's like the picture of Phil Collins that I got signed by Paul Daniels...it makes little sense, but it's mine, and I treasure it.

This Hoodoo, this Jinx, it sets me apart,
It's my curse, 
all mine.

Friend, Earth, Soul by Brittaina Goffy

You are my curse
you blame me for
hell, Trump, apocalypse, drought
you are my best
friend

I am cursed
a hero's curse
I must live for
oil, death, drought,
Earth

wretched curses
for wretched life
addicted, drunk
soul

The Last Curse by Ambrozya

It started with a pinch behind the neck
A broken plate
Lost my keys
Was followed in the night
Broke an ankle
Missed a flight

Until one day

My eyes
Did
Not 
Open

Next weeks anthologia edition will be the last one hosted on this site (for the foreseeable future).
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