First attempt at a #MastoPrompt. Was even more fun that I had expected.

Best friends forever, the children had sworn. Little did they know that the further the threads weaving their friendship together stretched, the thinner would they become. And the more difficult to discern through the ever-growing tapestry of their lives, until no trace of the #erstwhile sister-soul could be picked out anymore.

#MicroFiction #LostFriend

Hovering disc shining new chrome
against a powder blue sky.

Exposed in triumphant technicolor
it sits still in crisp celluloid.

A boy points his finger, 'see' he says,
fooled by the erstwhile hubcap.

#MastoPrompt #erstwhile

@tanweerdar

What once we were,
Echoes of the classic myths
Carved in a different alphabet
Under the heat of a Mediterranean
Sky.

What once we were,
In the battles' mirrors,
Untouchable and immortal,
Happy rushing blood and flesh,
Gone.

What once we were,
Statues of us sculpted from
Precious stones quarried out of
The groves in the sacred mountain,
Truth.

What once we were,
Gods and angels,
Winged fates,
Kindnesses.

#MastoPrompt #Erstwhile #Poetry #SmallPoems

Erstwhile ghosts
Incorporeal memories
Haunt us all

#575Prompt @aethelshane #incorporeal
#MastoPrompt #erstwhile
#Haiku #Senyru #FreeHaiku @freehaiku

#MastoPrompt 2023-04-07 & 08

It was inconceivable how #erstwhile lovers, friends, partners could #inflict such pain upon each other. She could not wrap her head around it.

How would she ever trust anyone again?

Well, she thought, perhaps I'll start with myself.

"And you've no idea where your #erstwhile colleague went?"

"How should I know?" The barbarian eyed the rack. "Soon as your guards appeared, he grabbed the loot and fled."

"Do you seriously expect me to believe that?" The duke steepled his fingers and sighed. "I didn't take you for a fool."

"Then you're wrong again," grumbled the barbarian, but only to himself.

#MastoPrompt #MicroFiction @tanweerdar

The sky,
a tumult of silver-white wool,
opens — I am surrounded
by unseen apertures
through which angels and ghosts and
erstwhile emotions drip like honey.

The clouds
are thin places, and I
am a thousand souls at once,
swollen as a thunderhead,
ready for the heavens
to be reborn
in a roadside puddle.

#MastoPrompt #erstwhile #smallpoems
@tanweerdar

Possibilities are endless
Yet, you #circumscribe our fate
Your narrow view is senseless
We've move past that #erstwhile date.

It's time you open your eyes
Your heart and your mind
To more than your exasperated sighs
Only then can we repair with time

#wordoftheday #MastoPrompt

An #erstwhile love
Became my defeat,
An #erstwhile love
Nearly the death of me.

I tend to the pain
Radiating through my shoulder -
You hoped we would grow older..

Three years #circumscribed to this home,
Three years ripping me to skin and bone.

As I leave,
I hope you smell my fear
And I hope you see my resentment

I hope you understand
That you have broken me
But only temporarily -
Headed back to the land of resilience,
I not only survive
I thrive.

#Mastoprompt #WordOfTheDay

The #MastoPrompt for Saturday 8th April 2023 is:

#erstwhile

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories

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