Zak the Protector

  • “In the spirit of video games I wrote a fantasy fable poem. For further fun I used every game name that Sarah posted, and in the exact order she posted them. Hope you like this.”

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    Zak the Protector

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    the mysterious lady
    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


     

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  • 30 thoughts on “Zak the Protector”

      1. 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! 🙂

      1. 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.

      1. 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.

      1. 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… 🙂

      1. 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 = 🙂

    1. 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]’.

      1. 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”

      1. 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! 🙂

    2. 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”.

      1. 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…

      1. 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. 🙂

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