in the dark red dress
fully intended to burrow
into my immortal soul
some kind of hellish mine craft
she was a daughter of diablo
she was so very young
but definitely about to blossom
blasting off to planet gorgeous
but this beauty was deadly
she swooped into my life
as might some space invaders
swift powerful and cunning
true to her vowed assassin’s creed
she was sworn to be the ruin of me
tempting me with her honey mine
and I certainly considered it
luscious as it promised to be
but I was fully alert to her scheme
my senses on overwatch
I was acutely hyper-vigilant
the portal to my soul
would not fall open to her
she would not be my doom
I knew her dark agenda
It was foretold in the elder scrolls
but her tantilizing voice was seductive
words rolled from her supple lips
sugar sweet as enchanted candy
crushing the will of the weak
but I would not be lost
not drawn helplessly intoxicated
into her heady myst of lies
my destiny was to defeat this devil
to denounce her evil unreal fantasies
I am Zak – protector of this safe space
warning all harboring dark intent
to steer clear of this sacred realm
trespassers will feel my power quake
like a vengeful angered god of war
my torchlight of blessed welcome
burns always for the pure of heart
but I will drive the dark souls
back down the stoney path of exile
lost into the pit of the damned
~ ~ ~
rob kistner © 2019
And….drum roll! Wow, you owned that prompt, and made it look very easy. I hope you had as much fun writing as I did reading!
I did Sarah, I certainly dud – great fun! What I did was write every one of your titles down in order, leaving a couple blank lines between each, then wove a fable around it. I LOVED THIS PROMPT! 🙂
Wow! This flowed together so smoothly I didn’t even notice the games unless I really looked for them.
Well done, you overachiever ????
I enjoyed this Candy. Just wrote all the titles down, left space between them, and wove the fable around them. Just let the imagination run lose. I have no destination when I start. Not trying to adhere to a form or topic – just writing. It really is fun.
Zak is one badazz Protector! Great job with using the prompts, even if you said it was easy to do!
Thank you Jade. Easy as compared to more challenging, like writing poetry in traditional forms. But I did have to employ my imagination to create Zak and his situation. It is just that wild imagination comes easy to me, as compared to forcing words into structured form. That I find more challenging, and only moderately rewarding.
Oh you win the prize tonight! That was amazing Rob ????
Thank you Christine. I appreciate that. No prize sought, I was just having fun, letting my insane imagination run lose. My imagination is like Disneyland. I believe it’s because I played by myself during most of my formative childhood years, so I learned to really “make believe” quite well. Never lost the capacity. I am a 72-year-old child… 🙂
Why did my smiley face come out as ???? ?
I publish my own website, and have for many years. My platform is too old to recognize emojis. If you want a smiley face you have to do it old school. First just the colen (:) then just the dash (-) then the “right” side of the parenthesis > ) <. String the three of this together, no spaces, and you get a smiley face = 🙂
You go Rob! Well done on this one. Very creative!
Thank you Dwight. I was a very strange child. That seems to have never changed much… 🙂
I’ve never understood the allure of a red dress but the hero of this piece is definitely drawn to the mysterious lady in the dark red one – red for danger, and who doesn’t love a bit of danger? I like the way you deftly slipped in ‘assassin’s creed’ and ‘candy crush[ing]’.
Thank you for visiting and commenting Kim. I appreciate it! I had my lady in red because she is the devil’s (diablo’s) daughter in this fable. I wanted to make certain I got every one of Sarah’s game titles in, and in the order she posted them. The trickiest one was “Spacewar“:
“I am Zak – protector of this safe /space
war/ning all harboring dark intent”
Nice description of fantasies as evil and unreal: “to denounce her evil unreal fantasies”
She was a bad lady Frank, but Zak showed her! 🙂
‘Enchanted candy crushing the will of the weak’- my favorite line Rob! Well done.
Thank you Linda. That line was in there as a jab at myself. I am a diabetic, and VERY weak for candy… 🙁
A masterpiece, no less! You held my attention to the very end.
Thank you Beverly, i appreciate your kind words!
I think this could be like a game within a game… a russian doll of games… very cool
Thank you Bjorn, I was having fun using all of Sarah’s titles. All of them are there in the order she posted them. I loved this post, it really allowed my imagination to soar! Need more like this one. Some pics/images as visual prompts would also be really cool, for an expansion of inspiration. Glad you liked this! 🙂
Zak is so badass, he’s good. I took this fantasy ride like a 12 year old reading graphic novels, every ebb and flow. You aced the prompt. Very much like you, I just let my imagination off the leash, and damn, the creativity flows like quicksilver. dVerse has become the wheelhouse and way station for both of us; for when you drop the D in disable, you get “is able”.
Thank you my friend! It was fun Glenn. For me, one of the best prompts in the 4 months of my return to prompts. I wish there were more wide open prompts like t grandson of hat from dVerse. Glad they are here, but they are on the conservative side. I especially miss Tess’s visual prompts so, so damned much! Those were a wellspring of marvelous inspiration. I am starting to surf the internet to see if I can find a prompt site as contemporary, hip, intelligent, and fucking “outside-of-the-box” as Tess’s Magpie was. Peace brother…
Fantastic tale 🙂
Thank you Ricardo! My man Zak wields a poetic sword… 🙂
Yay Zak!!! And bravo to you! Amazing tale and including everything in order as well. Great write!
Thank you Lillian! I thought it would be fun to challenge myself… it was wonderful fun! 🙂
Bravo!! You certainly rose to the challenge. A smooth blending of the given game words. Wow.
Thank you Mish. I really dug Sarah’s prompt, and while looking at the games titles on the dVerse site running vertically, with lines spaces between – my mind just started weaving verse between the titles – so I went with it. I have for years, from time to time, jotted down the words from a ‘wordel’, or just some key words I think are killer, leaving visual space between. I then proceed to continually “fill in the blanks”, until something of some quality appears. Then put it aside for a couple hours, then go back and edit and revise. This approach works reasonably well for me. Again, I appreciate your kind words Mish. 🙂