It's Still Life

7 February: dVerse Quadrille

AI artwork: steampunk moon with smiling face, starry background sky.
Up There 

It’s an albino moon, 
white toothed, sleepy grinned. 
Pricking at stars as they're 

born and burn away, old ones  
plunge and die. We watch them 
carry our hearts, wrack and ruin  

our second thoughts, and that 
moon's staring button-eyed  
at us while we weep.

Written for dVerse Quadrille 44-words, sans title, “stars”. AI Digital Art is mine and created using Midjourney’s bot (v4) illustration parameters in the style of Greg Toccini, Moebius, and Francois Schuiten. Image and poem ©Misky 2023 Shared on Twitter #amwriting #quadrille, @midjourney @dversePoets

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30 responses to “7 February: dVerse Quadrille”

  1. Jane Dougherty avatar
    Jane Dougherty

    There’s something unnerving and unnatural about your albino moon snapping up tasty morsels of stars, laughing at our distress. I like it.

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      It does feel slightly sinister. Glad you like it.

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      1. Jane Dougherty avatar
        Jane Dougherty

        I did. Your poems often have a quirky approach that makes them interesting. Never clichéd.

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        1. Misky avatar
          Misky

          That’s the best compliment you could possibly give me. Thanks.

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          1. Jane Dougherty avatar
            Jane Dougherty

            My pleasure 🙂

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  2. ben Alexander avatar
    ben Alexander

    Your use of personification is to die for, Misky (for the stars, at least!)

    Beautiful…

    ~David

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Thanks so much, David! ❤️

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  3. The Sicilian Storyteller avatar
    The Sicilian Storyteller

    A lovely one, Misky! This morning while still in bed I watched the palest full moon make a graceful exit. Two sublime ways to start my day 🌝

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Aaah. Sweet. 🥰

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  4. Jewish Young Professional "JYP" avatar
    Jewish Young Professional “JYP”

    So true about the second thoughts staring at you while you sleep…

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      … ie., I’ll sleep on it. Such a bad move when instincts are perfectly acceptable.

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  5. Susan St.Pierre avatar
    Susan St.Pierre

    The image you chose was spot on with your poem! Did you choose it before or after you composed it?
    Well done.

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      I wrote the poem, and then created the image using A.I.

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      1. Susan St.Pierre avatar
        Susan St.Pierre

        WOW! Totally cool. Bravo!

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  6. Helen avatar
    Helen

    Outstanding combo of art and quadrille! Cheers.

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Thanks!

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  7. whimsygizmo avatar
    whimsygizmo

    Hungry, hungry moon.
    I love “Pricking at stars as they’re

    born and burn away” especially.

    Always such gorgeous turns of phrase, Misky.

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    1. whimsygizmo avatar
      whimsygizmo

      I think it’s that “white toothed” that got me, Misk. shiver

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      1. Misky avatar
        Misky

        It’s a cold ol’ moon.

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    2. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Thank you, De.

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  8. Bill avatar
    Bill

    Well done, Misky. I will never look up at the moon in the same way again. 🙂

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Thanks you, Bill.

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  9. msjadeli avatar
    msjadeli

    Ah, even the moon has its capricious moments.

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Indeed!

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  10. Jim avatar
    Jim

    They “carry our hearts, wrack and ruin our second thoughts,” no help from the moon either. A fun read, Misky.
    ..

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  11. Björn Rudberg (brudberg) avatar
    Björn Rudberg (brudberg)

    Why would ever think that the moon or the stars would ever care about us?…. and maybe we should be thankful that they see us as insignificant.

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  12. kim881 avatar
    kim881

    I got a hint of eeriness in your quadrille, Marilyn, which was reinforced by the moon lighting up our kitchen in the early hours of the past few mornings. The ‘white toothed, sleepy grinned’ albino moon could have been standing in my kitchen at three o’clock, ‘Pricking at stars as they’re born’. The button-eyed moon is scary, a bit like the button moulder in Peer Gynt.

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      It always seems a bit closer and brighter when it’s a “snow moon”. It’s not wonder it has a pull on us.

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  13. purplepeninportland avatar
    purplepeninportland

    I love that image!

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Thanks!

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