Note: I followed the prompt and decided to post all three stages, because there’s just too much love in every word I wrote. It’s very close to me. Step 1 Once upon a time a little kitty was noticed by a human while crawling to…

She looks into his eyes … Hoping to find warmth and peace. She gets nothing but fright … Nothing but a freezing coldness. How many souls will be gone astray … How many sad eyes there will be … How many hearts will be broken…

  CLOUDS IN JUNE   a funny dark cloud followed little June down her street one day, as if to say, “I’d like to make good use of your time.”   Naturally she scurried away, closed the door of wood behind her, only to hear…

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Inevitable Like the Montague’s and the Capulet’s A forbidden love is what has risen. Pointed fingers take turns At reciting the laws that were given. To sneak away for the night is a risk taken Our love could never be mistaken A battle between worlds…

Companion, dear one, always by my side Enthusiastic greetings on my return Escorting each piano student to the bench Relaxing under the piano to listen to their progress Praise and kisses every week, even with wrong notes Black hair on white carpet, head upon my…

Little miss sunshine went to the zoo On a day when the sky was a clear blue She saw Mr. Elephant and Ms. Giraffe And a Mr. Monkey with a funny laugh She saw birds and a big snake Then ate her lunch by the…

Chapter 4: Marked Body   Basement, poorly lit Candles flicker One unfamiliar torch A cloaked figure come bearing gifts – Banishment and branding, But not death, not hanging From the highest tower.     Awakening, in pain Heat crackles, smoke burns Flames creep   Sister,…

Get dressed or we’ll take you like that hostile she was, eager to shame, a nightgown she wore, they wrote down her name. In handcuffs she’s placed, as her son arrives she can’t feel a thing so inside she dies. In her mind she does…

Gather at feeders Rat comes in to share the gifts Birds all fly away