for eighteen years of divine beauty,
pui lays ghost-white on the altar;
her blood, the rouge
for pores of stone.
Author notes
21 words, 21 minutes.
Prompt: rouge.
A contest entry
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480 points, ended October 30, 2008, 7 entries
Bronze trophy winner
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Comments
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and you killed her? poets are ruthless. anything for poetry
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sad but very well written
pui... interesting name I googled it to see if I was missing some mythological reference
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Pui is a girl in my pedagogy class... I was running short on time and her name was the first exotic-sounding one I could think of
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ohhhhhh. so dark
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