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Prompt: Picture

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The black hair once tucked so neatly away, is set free
Alone with tuneless guitar she waits
Eyes set firmly on the closed door. Not the game.
She waits in anticipation but her face shows nothing.
Though severe black eyes may be windows, her mouth is fixed.

The Solider chose black, black like her hair, her eyes.
And though he says it is for luck and his hand moves,
he does not think of the game.
Eyes downcast and away.

His rich opponent watches seemingly carefree.
He wonders now why, clutching black pieces,
he is winning so easily.

The music stopped some time ago.
Hands removed from sword hilts.
A simple game it seemed to be.
Her earring catches the light.
For our last exercise ever in Creative Writing she gave us some pictures and told us to write a poem about them. Mine is not so much a poem as prose because I saw a story and I refused to change that story for poetry.

In order to understand the key elements of what i'm getting at (and please give me your own views on the subject matter) you need to look at the picture very carefully. Look at the men's body language and what one of them holds in his hand. Look at the woman's face, the men's clothes and at the guitar. This is the picture:

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