Today's prompt is to take a random card from a random card deck (any kind of card deck - playing cards or Tarot or whatever) and write about it for a few minutes, then transform your notes into poetry.
Because I'm lazy I have just selected a card from my mind, a card I have always been fascinated with as a symbol of bad luck and the stamp of a lucky/luckless Fate - the Ace of Spades.
Ace of Spades
Ominous shovel
to dig the grave
of failure. Unnnerving
sceptre of danger.
Bad luck. Black shamrock
with a razored peak.
A winner's harsh
unrelenting eye.
Always enigmatic.
Insolent. Intense portent
of Fate's boot-heel
stamp. Luck's most
eloquent guise. Bluff-caller,
trump of deceitful triumph.
Poisoned vial of craft
and cunning stuck
in an inverted heart;
dagger of do or die.
Blackened and carved
daredevil egotism,
familiar victory that casts
a deadened look.
Slice and dice, cold
hard fact of destiny's
irreversible lot. Scar
of doleful loss. Brand
of a cynic, always
an end.
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