#couplet

[imbadatparking]

GREAT WHITE

You leer at me from your cave of a couch, rolling smoke from your worn tobacco pouch. Old Vietnam tapes interrupt the silence, recorded from when your mother only knew violence.

You handle your treasure meticulously, gentle like you never are with me. Your prized possession, weight yours to decide, for I’m only worth something when I’m by your side. 

If I held up a mirror, you’d recoil at the reflection, eyes like hers with that same cruel inflection. Your denial hangs thick like Napalm in smoke onscreen, yellow glinting off a Great White’s teeth sheen.

There’s no rush as you circle me, hungry and slow knowing I’ll come to you with the harsh undertow. A loud boom and a voice over chaotic commotion, sounds that echo all the way out here in the ocean. I’ve crafted an island that awaits my return, a defense to a reality I can no longer discern.  Soldiers scratch SOS, flares bomb the sky, desperate to get attention from up so high. 

Predatory eye tracks me as I flinch to the ground, shoulders in, lips back, like a dog that’s been drowned. I’m a vision of you when we met years ago, before the evil you grew up with infected your ego. Your sharp fingers reach out as if a caress, a mockery of care that leaves a ruined mess. The moment you touch me, the water stains red, a wound staining waves with cruelty you've bled.

You can’t see how you are your mother; you are Napalm, you are the shark, the predator, you are Vietnam. I know how this ends, it's always the same, but the waves still pull me under as you win your game.

@nosebleedclub dec prompts, iv. couplet

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Couplet, 1851, China.

[gramarobin]

Look, but sheild your eyes

sun shining and blue skies

Appearing warm

do something, she tries.

-rw

[lionofchaeronea]

King Zeus, give us fine things whether we pray for them or not; Keep from us woes, even if we ask them. Ζεῦ βασιλεῦ, τὰ μὲν ἐσθλὰ καὶ εὐχομένοις καὶ ἀνεύκτοις ἄμμι δίδου: τὰ δὲ λυγρὰ καὶ εὐχομένων ἀπερύκοις. -Anth. Pal. 10.108 ~ [Plato], Alcibiades II 143a

[env0writes]

Juniper Journal’s Vol. 2, 6.16.24 “Lord of Light?"

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Hot sun Shogun Lord of body And light

Cool breeze Through trees Shadow cast haughty Over all within sight

No clouds Allowed Castle of sticks shoddy Beaten to death to prove might

Sunburn Heart yearn Blush cheeks flush naughty Oh, how the summer takes flight

[chashmenaaz]

Hope of love, mood of sight, color of pain

Today, don't ask anything, for the heart is very melancholy

umid-e-yar nazar ka mizaj dard ka rang tum aaj kuchh bhi na puchho ki dil udas bahut hai

[sophiechoir]

a feather left

at tether’s end

[kundst]

Arnoud van Mosselveld

Couplet (2023)

Color pencil on cardboard (14,5 x 21 cm)

[creatediana]

I read and read, like Prospero— the magic still escapes me, though.

"No Duke" - a couplet written 7/10/2024

[bloomboxygo]

Happy 1 year anniversary to the reveal of (arguably) the best support an archetype could ever ask for!

IRL is gripping me more and more so unfortunately I didn't prepare anything special for it. Sorry about that. But still, I'll be a Melodious Main and Composer as long as I play YGO, no matter whether or not we'll get new support. This completely revitalized the deck in a way that playing it pure is ideal and it's incredibly synergistic and... I could just talk about it for hours but... Maybe another time, and I think I'd be repeating myself.

An applause for Refrain, the tough and powerful Pendulum who made herself a staple 3-of no matter the build! An applause for Couplet, the most fun Poplar, the greatest companion, and the most cheerful cherub! An applause for Bacha, the BUSTED Fusion who's as powerful and as calling as she is imposing and sublime! And an applause for Etoile, the best Ace Monster Melodious could ever ask for, making all parts of Melodious shine brighter than ever, old and new, completing the graceful and deceptively powerful endboard!

The Melodious Concerto will be everlasting!

[planetpluto28]

Turtle Nebulae

blue, pink, just out in the void we call space.

sitting there floating, in all of it's grace.

[rustbeltjessie]

Sometimes, I’d rather fantasize than make our bodies harmonize.

—Jessie Lynn McMains, NaPoWriMo 2025, Day 6 (from @nosebleedclub’s “first couplet” prompt)

[morimatea]

Here it is Chinese Spring Festival.

[lionofchaeronea]

The Passing of Youth

Mindless mortals and puerile, who weep for those who’ve died But not for the flower of youth as it is withering. ἄφρονες ἄνθρωποι καὶ νήπιοι, οἵτε θανόντας κλαίουσ᾽, οὐδ᾽ ἥβης ἄνθος ἀπολλύμενον. -[Theognis], Elegies 1069-70

[kandybarre]

they who claim the dark are brighter far

to me, than many a supposed star.

[g-h-o-s-t-2000]

all that is in your mind all that is in your heart