Day 11
Prompt: today’s honours the ‘ones’ in the number 11. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write either a monostich, which is a one-line poem, or a poem made up of one-liner style jokes/sentiments. Need inspiration? Take a look at Joe Brainard’s poem, 30 One-Liners, or Frank O’Hara’s Lines for the Fortune Cookies.
Lines for the
Major Arcana
0 THE FOOL
Without fear
or hesitation, she takes the giant leap into the unknown.
1 THE MAGICIAN
The mystic conjured
a door from nothing and held it open for all to experience its mystery.
2 THE HIGH
PRIESTESS
Beneath a
dreamcatcher’s snowy feathers, the white witch gazes across the threshold.
3 THE EMPRESS
The earth
mother bears her newborn baby to her breast beneath green, silken leaves.
4 THE EMPEROR
The state can
be strict and authoritarian, or it can protect and support the populace.
5 THE HIEROPHANT
Our guide, he teaches
us to be more than we believe we can be.
6 THE LOVERS
To hold the
one in your arms is to cradle the wealth of the entire world.
7 THE CHARIOT
Hold on to
your hat because life is about to sweep you off your feet and carry you to
far-off places!
8 STRENGTH
The King takes
it all in his stride, shakes his fiery mane, knowing you can never tame him.
9 THE HERMIT
In the depths
of a cave of echoes, he holds a candle aloft, seeks to heal in his safe retreat.
10 WHEEL OF
FORTUNE
Balancing fate
and destiny, it turns, releasing the old and welcoming the new.
11 JUSTICE
Two golden bowls
rest in balance, a feather in one scale, measuring what is true.
12 THE HANGED
MAN
Turned upside
down by his life experience, he waits, knowing action is futile.
13 DEATH
Change charges
in like a hurricane, stealing any worn-out clothes away.
14 TEMPERANCE
Singing beside
a waterfall, the nymph swaps human excess for tranquil contemplation.
15 THE DEVIL
Dressed to
kill, the gigolo swaggers in, scours the room for a passionate, one-night escape.
16 THE TOWER
All defences
overcome, the storm shakes everything, right down to their very foundations.
17 THE STAR
The child
peers through a kaleidoscope at hope and faith aglow in the night sky.
18 THE MOON
Beware the
unknown enemy who keeps himself hidden but walks in your footsteps.
19 THE SUN
Brighter days
are coming, bringing energy, happiness, creativity and friendship.
20 JUDGEMENT
Karma is your
companion here, and what you have sown, so you shall reap.
21 THE WORLD
Everything is
opening up and your world is literally growing bigger – all you need to do is smile.
Copyright
Vickie Johnstone, April 11, 2024
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