RomanticFridayWriters

Welcome to RomanticFridayWriters!

RFW is about short short writing or flash fiction (usually 400 words), less for poems, with some romantic element. It's not Romance of the happily ever after variety, but Romantic, where it's about the story, the issue, with some romantic relationship involved. Our stories are edgy, sometimes dark, and often don't have the HEA ending!

So here we go! RFW Dribbles (50 words), Drabbles (100 words) and Droubbles (200 words) and more (400 ish)...for your enjoyment - a laugh, a cry...

It's widely agreed that most fiction (unless it's solely about animals) begins and ends with human characters: their frailties, virtues, conflicts and expectations. In our stories for the A - Z Challenge the writers attempt to more closely observe the people around us...

Today just for a change I give you poetry, obviously influenced by Edgar Allan Poe's Annabelle Lee.

S is for By the Sea

By the Sea 

Annabel!

The waves smash against the rocks

The seagulls call your name

The moon beams and is bringing me dreams

Of you

and me

by the sea.

By the sea

we laughed, we played, we loved

Until they came

and took you away -

away from me.

Annabel!

 Your beauty was such that the angels in heaven were jealous -

Jealous of our love

As I held you tight on the grassy banks at night

I could hear their voices on the wind -

‘You will not keep her! You will not have her!’

The voices mingled with the crash of the waves

I held you tight, tighter

I crushed you close to me.

They can never dissever our love.

‘Don't leave me, Annabel!’

My voice ripped away by the wind.

Annabel!

Where are you?

Where have they taken you?

I hear the waves

I hear the gulls

I hear you!

My name is a whisper on the wind.

The sea is cold, so cold

My legs tremble with the chill

The moon threads the waves with its silvery fingers

Enticing

Drawing

me to you.

I am so cold Annabel

as the night tide carries me

to you.

Yes, my darling!

I hear you

Your voice is an angel’s call.

The ocean is chilling yet

my heart is thrilling

at the sound of my name on your lips.

Soon we’ll be together

for eternity

The angels will smile at our love -

a love that was more than love

In our Kingdom by the sea.

The beautiful, wild sea.

©DeniseCovey2012

Denise, (L'Aussie) writes short stories, flash fiction, travel articles and newspaper profiles while working on her Great Australian Novels, one of which is set in Afghanistan. She's the founder of RomanticFridayWriters. Her writing blog is L'Aussie Writing. She'd love you to visit her there for her A - Z Challenge on the theme, BLOGGERS WERE CHILDREN TOO!