#erstwhile — Public Fediverse posts

First attempt at a #MastoPrompt. Was even more fun that I had expected.

Best friends forever, the children had sworn. Little did they know that the further the threads weaving their friendship together stretched, the thinner would they become. And the more difficult to discern through the ever-growing tapestry of their lives, until no trace of the #erstwhile sister-soul could be picked out anymore.

#MicroFiction #LostFriend

@tanweerdar

What once we were,
Echoes of the classic myths
Carved in a different alphabet
Under the heat of a Mediterranean
Sky.

What once we were,
In the battles' mirrors,
Untouchable and immortal,
Happy rushing blood and flesh,
Gone.

What once we were,
Statues of us sculpted from
Precious stones quarried out of
The groves in the sacred mountain,
Truth.

What once we were,
Gods and angels,
Winged fates,
Kindnesses.

#MastoPrompt #Erstwhile #Poetry #SmallPoems

Erstwhile ghosts
Incorporeal memories
Haunt us all

#575Prompt @aethelshane #incorporeal
#MastoPrompt #erstwhile
#Haiku #Senyru #FreeHaiku @freehaiku

Erstwhile memories,
Fading like a setting sun,
Lost in time's embrace.

#MastoPrompt #haiku #erstwhile

Erstwhile comes from the Old English words ær (“early”) and hwīl (“while”). The adverb use came first, with our earliest evidence of this occurring in 1569.

That which erstwhile so pleasaunt scent did yelde,
Of Sulphure now did breathe corrupted smel.
—Edmund Spenser, A Theatre Wherein be Represented as wel the Miseries & Calamities that Follow the Voluptuous Worldlings, 1569

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-erstwhile-meaning-of-erstwhile
#English #Vocabulary #Erstwhile #Language #Linguistics