The seamstress of doom
poses provocatively
with full-rounded breasts
Trust – her enemy
while lust is her currency
Her machinations woven
with the immaculate accuracy
of master tailors
-disguised as empathy
Your pain is her fuel
which she uses to mediate
between her draining power
and your troubles
which flame with fire
-sparked by angst’s wicker
©Vivian Zems
Real Toads-Art Flash/55
Image: Seamstress by Cat Schappach (https://www.instagram.com/catschappach/)
@catschappach
Smell The Coffee 
September 6, 2019 at 1:36 pm
I think I’d not trust such a creature. Especially since you give her such a bad review. Nicely written, Viv.
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September 8, 2019 at 4:31 pm
You’re right not to trust her….. just look at her!😂
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September 6, 2019 at 1:59 pm
You provide an interesting angle of this tempting seamstress! I love the way you worked with rhyming words to create emphasis, Viv.
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September 8, 2019 at 4:30 pm
Thanks Kerry!
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September 6, 2019 at 6:10 pm
Your seamstress is a siren, Viv, weaving (or sewing!) her spell, using what she”s got.I love the phrases ‘lust is her currency’ and ‘sparked by angst’s wicker’.
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September 8, 2019 at 4:29 pm
Thanks Kim- sadly, unlike you- I couldn’t find anything nice about her. All those snakes…. and a severed foot… yuuuuuck! 😱😂
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September 6, 2019 at 8:31 pm
Lust as a currency is such a powerful image! ❤️ Kudos, Viv! 🙂
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September 8, 2019 at 4:27 pm
Thanks Sanaa!😊
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September 6, 2019 at 9:23 pm
Way to go Vivian! Lust as currency….that is powerful and seems to be the penny of the world.
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September 8, 2019 at 4:27 pm
Indeed, it is 😊
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September 7, 2019 at 6:09 am
I like it
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September 8, 2019 at 4:27 pm
Thanks Ify! Glad to see you here😊
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September 7, 2019 at 8:40 am
This is excellent Vivian! It pulls the reader right into the image.
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September 8, 2019 at 4:26 pm
Thanks Rob!
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September 7, 2019 at 12:21 pm
Images like these allow such varied responses, like a shifting mirror. The siren here lures with lust and false empathy in order to feed a darker succubus within. Temptation is the coin we can never pay back.
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September 8, 2019 at 11:07 am
Absolutely!
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September 7, 2019 at 9:00 pm
“while lust is her currency” Love that..Great writing!
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September 8, 2019 at 11:05 am
Thanks Susie!
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September 8, 2019 at 3:25 pm
A temptress indeed. Well done Vivian!
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September 8, 2019 at 4:22 pm
Thanks Linda!
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September 8, 2019 at 8:15 pm
I feel that you have captured the temptress in that seamstress… lust indeed.
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September 9, 2019 at 9:41 pm
Indeed😊
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September 9, 2019 at 4:27 am
With her left leg torn off I am not surprised she is a bit tetchy with other people. Pity as she has a sweet face.
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September 9, 2019 at 9:39 pm
Indeed! 😀
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September 12, 2019 at 1:34 am
She tries and weaves an evil web to trap her victims, that’s for sure. Lust is certainly one of the traps. Nice.
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September 12, 2019 at 2:04 am
Thank you, Margaret.
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