{Denise gracefully hosts Six Sentence Stories, where writers unleash their magic under one simple rule: in no more or no less than 6 sentences.
This week’s prompt word is : VISA }
Illusions
Ink bleeds on the parchment, as the quill remains in limbo…a heartbeat that was not, a storm of words heavy as hope-sinking stones…scrive.
Veritas.
Incola.
Sepulchrum.
Angelus.
No need for more ink…it is… without…
By The Company Of Warriors I Keep
Spira/Nick © January 2023
inSPIRAtion 
Apt music for the wondrous release of . . . the imagination? a divine being called forth? Words have that power.
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Words do have power.
Thank you, Dora.
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I like your phrase: “a storm of words heavy as hope-sinking stones” and the brevity of the story. What comes to mind is hope-sinking despair may also be an illusion.
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You are so right, Frank.
And this is our daily struggle, isn’t it?
I appreciate a lot your insights, Frank; thank you.
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You had me at “ink bleeds”, Nick. You could have stopped there and your piece would have been wondrous but I’m glad you continued. Cleverly constructed and beautifully written. The video is inspiring and the perfect match for this ink. ✍🏻
Bravo, caro amico. Goditi questa bella giornata 💫
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Grazie, cara mia Nancy.
Anche tu, cara amica 💫
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Great to read, wonderful to listen to.
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Thank you, Keith.
Thomas is one of the two founding members of Two Steps from Hell; has an extensive discography solo and as 2SFH.
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As much as I’m on the poem-deaf side of the writing thing, I do loves me strange words. Not so strange as to be alien, but strange enough to resonate into my personal past. (Thinking back to catholic grade school and high school in the ’60s. Both with their own lingua franca that time tends to blend).
Pleasing Sixifying, yo
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Can’t say I have written it as a poem but I am glad it pleased you regardless, Clark.
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Very fresh and imaginative way to work “visa” into your piece! Love the musical selection, too.
–Shay
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Thank you, Shay.
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Courage and inspired! ✏️
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🙏🏼
Thank you, Chris. ☀️
You have read between the lines…
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I like the acrostic. It’s a clever way to incorporate the prompt word.
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Thank you, Nicole.
It never hurts to try, right?
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Always moving and inspiring.
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Thank you, Mimi.
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Artful brevity in words, Nick. They are carefully carried by your musical selection, spreading like the ink upon the parchment where words don’t require writing. They simply are…without…
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Can you hear that?…
…it may seem like brevity but it’s only silence between words.
Martha Argerich once said that, (after her immense corpus of piano music), silence between notes played is the one definitive, magical part of music.
Thank you, Denise.
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An invocation of sorts?
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Or prophetic words (and silences)?
Thank you, Liz.
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Nice. Nicely paced, nicely spaced, the silences between bring a mystical melody to this.
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Thank you, D.
I will gladly accept mystical melody any day!
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