Comments | ysabetwordsmith: Poem: "HEA B&B"

ysabetwordsmith

Poem: "HEA B&B"

Mar 09, 2013 20:14

This poem came out of the March 5, 2013 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a brief prompt from janetmiles and a detailed prompt from polydad. It also fills the "lifemates" square in my card for the Dark Fantasy Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by Shirley Barrette. It belongs to the Monster House series.

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Comments 14

kelkyag March 10 2013, 17:47:05 UTC

D'awwwww.

siege March 10 2013, 19:36:09 UTC

This one left me with a smile. :)

ladymondegreen March 11 2013, 00:45:17 UTC

That's awesome. I'd love to see a poem about Marjorie's current lifemates waiting for a new one to show up.

Thank you! ysabetwordsmith March 11 2013, 05:52:25 UTC

I've made a note of this.

rhodielady_47 March 12 2013, 21:16:59 UTC

I agree!
:D

rhodielady_47 March 11 2013, 10:28:51 UTC

""Back in my foolish college days,
I cast a lifemate spell," Marjorie said.
"Turned out to be a bit darker than I expected,
which is to say permanent, and it stuck on repeat.""

Talk about making my eyes cross.... just thinking about that!
That brings real meaning to the phrase "be careful what you pray for 'cause you might just get it!"
8^o

Yes... ysabetwordsmith March 11 2013, 20:45:17 UTC

>>Talk about making my eyes cross.... just thinking about that!<<

I've seen people do some stupendously foolish things with magic, so I wanted to work with that ...

>>That brings real meaning to the phrase "be careful what you pray for 'cause you might just get it!"
8^o <<

... and I also wanted to twist the lifemates trope because people always seem to think of it as this magical-monogamy thing. But what if it didn't work like that?

Re: Yes... rhodielady_47 March 12 2013, 07:59:49 UTC

I can only hope and pray that the spell included a "no jealousy" clause!!! (Knees are knocking just thinking what might happen if that weren't the case.)

Just imagine what might happen if someone cast a lifemate spell but somehow something got a bit messed up and they wound up with a lifemate who wasn't "good" for them...
Now that might truly become a fate far worse than death!
;^}

Re: Yes... ysabetwordsmith March 12 2013, 08:17:39 UTC

>>I can only hope and pray that the spell included a "no jealousy" clause!!! (Knees are knocking just thinking what might happen if that weren't the case.)<<

It didn't. Jealousy is just something that polyfolks have to learn how to deal with. (I keep telling the monogamists: pollies don't have a sex fetish, they have a communication fetish.) What the spell does is find and connect people who are deeply compatible. So there's a firm basis for forming a healthy family there. They just have to work through some stuff to get that far.

>>Just imagine what might happen if someone cast a lifemate spell but somehow something got a bit messed up and they wound up with a lifemate who wasn't "good" for them...
Now that might truly become a fate far worse than death!<<

That's actually a standard warning for why love spells are a bad idea; not all spells are designed to avoid that problem. It can happen. People ignore the warnings anyhow.

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