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17- have it all

On Monday, my servants bring me platters of fruit. On Tuesday, they pour me rich rose baths. On Wednesday, I give a speech from the rooftops and bestow

Posted byjordynsaelorSeptember 10, 2024Posted inLandscape of a Heart, poetryTags:fantasy, free form poetry, karma, new book, novel, poem, poet, poetry, queen, short story, weekly goals, witch, writingLeave a comment on 17- have it all

Restore/Reorder

I’ve figured me out: I do something stupid or nasty then I feel bad. Then I punish myself. Like, I exiled you. Now I write letters to you

Posted byjordynsaelorSeptember 7, 2024Posted inLandscape of a Heart, poetryTags:apocalypse, fantasy, free form poetry, magic, nature, poem, poet, poetry, pride, shame, short story, witch, writingLeave a comment on Restore/Reorder

Rerun

I didn’t give into my baser instincts and turn the trees into people—for fifty years, at least, I kept wandering and writing you

Posted byjordynsaelorSeptember 5, 2024Posted inLandscape of a Heart, poetryTags:fantasy, guilt, letter, magic, nature, poem, poet, poetry, reputation, shame, tree, witch, writingLeave a comment on Rerun

Belonging

Yeah, Brisbane wasn’t alone. All the cities I found to the south: dead. All the towns I found: ghostly. All the life I found: snakes and bugs and possums and rabbits and bin chickens. So I flew back to

Posted byjordynsaelorAugust 27, 2024August 27, 2024Posted inLandscape of a Heart, poetryTags:blog, fantasy, free form poem, free form poetry, poem, poet, poetry, reunion, school, short story, spell, witch, writingLeave a comment on Belonging

Equality

I filled Brisbane with a bunch of trees. Just, transported the whole forest one set of roots at a time. And I didn’t give into my baser instincts and turn them all into people

Posted byjordynsaelorAugust 24, 2024Posted inLandscape of a Heart, poetryTags:alien, Brisbane, equality, free form poem, imagination, nature, poem, poet, poetry, short story, trees, witch, writingLeave a comment on Equality

But Don’t Worry/Entropic

I imbued the trees with normatropism even though it took several years with Earth’s scarce magic to work out the summoning rings to make brains out of tree sap

Posted byjordynsaelorAugust 20, 2024Posted inLandscape of a Heart, poetryTags:anxiety, Brisbane, entropy, fantasy, free form poem, nature, poem, poet, poetry, power, short story, witch, writing3 Comments on But Don’t Worry/Entropic

14- Down to Earth

Yeah, I went back to Earth. I don’t know why, there’s very little to use for magic there. There used to be, according to some old demons and monsters. But all the roads and cars and cities and

Posted byjordynsaelorAugust 10, 2024Posted inLandscape of a Heart, poetryTags:earth, fantasy, home, magic, outback, poem, poet, poetry, short story, time, welcome home, witch, writingLeave a comment on 14- Down to Earth

Blight Reaper

Sliptide’s sleeping lover dozed in the den, yet mud from hundreds of years of monsoons had nearly closed the opening. I didn’t unblock it, though, since she still had several thousand

Posted byjordynsaelorAugust 8, 2024Posted inLandscape of a Heart, poetryTags:ancient, dragon, fantasy, free form poem, guilt, memory, poem, poet, poetry, short story, time, witch, writingLeave a comment on Blight Reaper

sow chaos

I stayed until the night’s life left my wrinkled skin and white hair as old as ever, but I was so scared to check if Sliptide got her memories back that of course I punished myself by tracking her down

Posted byjordynsaelorAugust 6, 2024Posted inLandscape of a Heart, poetryTags:ancient, dragon, fantasy, free form poem, immortal, memory, poem, poet, poetry, short story, time, witch, writingLeave a comment on sow chaos

13- the tyrant

I wandered the Realm of Green Dragons for seasons, hunted skins for tents and sandals, took a few emerald scales from a sleeping dragon’s swampy cave

Posted byjordynsaelorAugust 1, 2024Posted inLandscape of a Heart, poetryTags:fantasy, free form poem, magic, nature, poem, poetry, rhyme poem, seasons, self-deprecation, short story, wander, witch, writingLeave a comment on 13- the tyrant

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