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 Oct 2020 Audrey Gill
Ash
The fox
runs alongside the astronaut,
who looks at a picture frame.
Around the fox’s neck, a white bandana.
There, on the spooky
moon, his only company is the fox colored aluminum.

The aluminum
fur of the fox
blends into the moonscape. The ship is empty aside from them and the spooky
remanence of the rest of the crew. As the lone astronaut
works to return home, his only comfort being the bandana
and the picture frame.

The frame
that holds a photo of a woman, standing before the ship of aluminum.
Tied around her hair, the bandana
which has since been given to the fox.
The memories it brings ever haunting the astronaut
making the moon ever more spooky.

The spooky
feeling is not eased by the frame
as the remains of passed astronauts
are trapped in this aluminum
ship, the lone survivors being the man and the fox.
He keeps his thoughts on the bandana.

Her bandana,
given to him on a dark and spooky
day, which he then gave to the fox
so he may pretend the woman in the frame
isn’t millions of miles away from them. A fox of aluminum
and a lonely astronaut.

The astronaut
chooses to focus on returning to the woman without her bandana.
He works tirelessly to get the aluminum
rocket ship off the spooky
and desolate moon, and back to earth, to see the woman in the frame.
By his side on this barren rock, looking up at him, stands the fox.

The astronaut refuses to let the spooky
atmosphere deter him from his goal of returning the bandana to the woman in the frame,
ever thankful for the company of the aluminum fox.
A sestina made with words randomly given to me by a friend.
 Oct 2020 Audrey Gill
Ash
As blue
As the blood
That taints the perfect crown
I frown, watching the kingdom
I love
Fight a tireless war.

A war
Against those with scales of blue,
Where we lose far too many of those we love,
And spill far too much blood.
We say we fight in the name of our almighty kingdom.
They say they fight in the name of the crown.

A crown
Which has only seemed out hatred and war
And is willing to **** any who speak against its kingdom,
Allowing the royal blue
Blood
Shed— even from those we love.

But love
Is not felt by those who bear the crown.
We never learn the true meaning of spilled blood,
Or the pain caused by an everlasting war.
A war we fuel until every petal has fallen, mixing with the blue,
Leaving in its wake, a broken and hollow kingdom.

A kingdom
Lead by one who just never love,
Who must only mind the blue
Gem embedded in the crown,
Starting war after war,
Only protecting our title and our blood.

The blood
Which only flows through the veins belonging to the royals of this kingdom,
Who only know war
And believe the greatest weakness one could have is love.
We’re born and raised for the crown
As the world idolizes our shade of blue.

Yet— I spill my blood for those I love,
And serve my kingdom, even though I hold no crown,
I’ll fight this war, your hand in mine, stained in shades of royal blue.
A sestina written from the perspective of one of my original characters.
 Oct 2020 Audrey Gill
Ash
She was a simple girl from Phoenix, Arizona.
Who made an obvious
Choice, after gaining a large sum
Of money. This was to fly to Australia
In hopes of trying their fine cheeses.
There she found herself flabbergasted.

The sight she was, of course, worth the flabbergasting
As there, the girls from Arizona
Met a boy, face full of cheese
Though it wasn’t obvious
He was from that very town in Australia
And offered to pay their bills summed.

Though that total sum
Left them both flabbergasted
The boy from Australia
And the girl from Arizona
Spent what was obviously
Far too much on cheese.

Not even the most fine cheeses
But, it was over three hundred dollars summed.
The price was not so obvious
From what they had consumed, leaving them flabbergasted.
So, the girl from Arizona
Snuck out of the with the boy from Australia

As it turns out, the boy from Australia
Was almost addicted to cheese
Which is something he had in common with the Arizonan.
When she told him the total sum
Of her trip, he was flabbergasted
But his amaze was obvious

It was obvious
That this Australian
Wasn’t just flabbergasted
By cheese
But the sum
Of it and the girl from Arizona

It was obvious his addiction was more than cheese
And he became saddened by the fact the flight to or from Australia was a great sum.
So, he was flabbergast when she said, “I’m not going back to Arizona.”
Six random words from six random friends. I allowed myself to use slight variations of the words (like Flabbergasting or Obviously). It's a bit nonsense, I know, but it was a fun exercise.
i thought you were
my paradise.
but all along,
my heart was lied to.

it turns out,
i was just in
the wrong
destination.
i was only travelling, in your heart.
It wasn't my own, not my home.
I needed to go back somewhere.
somewhere, that's not yours.
-jia m
 Sep 2020 Audrey Gill
Lexie
Love was was not enough for us
Now we must face the music
 Sep 2020 Audrey Gill
Skiela
Self
 Sep 2020 Audrey Gill
Skiela
in the end
it's you
against
You.
 Sep 2020 Audrey Gill
J-J Johnson
My grandpa
             Words he gave
                            To me once upon a full moon
“Son” he said
            “When you go into this life”
“Remember, that love is a language “
             “So find, my son, find someone”
                     “Who speaks your language “
      “So you don’t have to translate your soul”
                                   Hmmm.
12/17/18

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