Construct Cup V 2.0

Marguerite

Prompt for: June 19, 2014
Subject or Theme: Darkness (Any aspect)
Word(s) to Include:Charm, pearl, 
Forbidden Word(s): Blood, demon, devil, doom, fire, fright, hurt, scare, vampire (or any derivatives of these words) 
Additional Parameters: Minimum 20 lines. Remember, do not use forbidden words ANYWHERE, including title.

Marguerite

Broken necklace,
cheapened baubles scattered on champagne carpeting
much like discarded after thoughts.
Each a memory not worth keeping,
let alone
stringing them together:
for there is no beauty here.
Iridescent nacre orbs formed
to insulate against an irritant
offer no protection,
hold neither illusion nor charm to ward off
the lackluster and the deadly.
Exceedingly rare, he'd told me, as was I.
He was as common as a grain of sand.

Mother of Pearled bruises ring my neck.
Police photographer clicks
(chin up, please)
unemotional, detached pictures:
still life in plum and indigo.
Perhaps, later, I shall ask to have a copy
of the pictured evidence.
I can tuck it next to the elegant portrait
framed above the mantle.
I stand, all rosy luminescence
and innocence
in fairy-tale wedding gown
and five-tiered, perfectly matched,
black pearl choker.

Black pearls are formed when that piece of sand gets stuck in the body of a very specific type of oyster, the Tahitian black-lipped Pinctada margaritifera. 




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