FREE: Custom Poem

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With a one week turn around time, I will write 30 lines for whatever prompt you choose! I'd very much prefer to send it to you digitally so that you have a copy that you don't have to type it up yourself, but I can also mail you a single, typed out copy printed on a standard piece of printer paper.

Here's a sample of my poetry:

Imagine.

I.
Imagine if my hands could fly,
plucking a world of liquid color,
each strand the hidden contour
of shadow beaks and butterfly wings
dancing behind each current-rose,
a different taste of pastel, each
flossed by a full-mouthed light.

Wide as the wingspan of the sea
always singing a swallow,
let its captive sky and unarmed sun
paint me as I change my threads below-
pigments eat tone from starved stone
where even the waters will shiver-
this land of the injured breezes left
slung in gauze sickles to drift asleep
as clouds for the meadows beneath.

First light, I'd spring my spine,
steep myself in the horizon cheeks of sunset,
with a dawn yawning into a cold cloth-
I'd watch the waves cast away silver hairs
as I pull in another gossamer tapestry
dyed from above the river of night.

II.
Imagine if my hands were the wind,
my soul a water nymph, quicksilver fast
in a dance to flee from thoughts,
my heart, two laced silk shoes
far behind with heavy heels hobbling,
too lost to look for breath.

In my high castle in the clouds,
cold with deep keystones of ice,
my own domed ceiling will be woven
by spiders, who drink slow rains
clotting through the veins of storms,
a river of frost, not yet spun
will run beneath my rushes-
The unripe sun spills on the ground
to melt the bones grown in gravity.

Forever, I'd weave the days, guard
and chain them in steel-eyed mists
to be a keeper of life in a sea of stars
on an island nearly lost,
An unending siege forced to a standstill.