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Strawberry Moon – 100 words

May 26, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Strawberry moon   Lush with the kiss of warm evenings and sticky sweet fruit promises it hangs ripe and fat where abundance meets greed and juice bursts, flows, rushes sating all senses   In belly-tight contentment, we lie under gentle air that whispers to my skin, and turn to trust this season’s lust and, eventually, […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, full moon, poem, Strawberry Moon

Middle-aged bingo – 100 words

May 25, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Middle-aged bingo   It’s a bit chilly this morning I hope it rains – the garden needs it Aren’t the hawthorns lovely? Did you remember to take the chicken out of the freezer? I need my reading glasses Have you been to the loo? Can you believe it’s June already? What did I come upstairs […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, middle age

What is a birthday – 100 words

May 24, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

What is a birthday?   An excuse: for cake, for wine, for pleasing yourself. Wear a big badge and a bigger grin. It’s your day – what will you do with it? A reason to celebrate – or a milestone on the way to the end, jelly and indignities on the way to the finish […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, birthday, creative writing

Dryad – 100 words

May 23, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Dryad   I’m young in the woods with new-hatched insects, buzzing busy, and idle hop birds, indolent and dusty.   I can see child hands, pressed on rock, in sand, digging and wriggling with worms or gleaming beetles, palm of night-green leaf crush.   Kneeling to work and study knobbles under canopy ferns: my nest, […]

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Too many tabs – 100 words

May 22, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Too many tabs   Upcoming birthday: the perfect gift Did I click to complete the order? Identify squares with taxis in them? Will it rain next week? Passport application – holiday admin Is it whole eggs or just yolks in carbonara? On the hunt for a tradesperson, available now, at a price that doesn’t make […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing

Glimmer warning – 100 words

May 21, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Glimmer warning   There will be a particular slant of light through a dandelion clock Your dog will do a double take and it will jolt you into laughter Pine sap will pervade and you’ll realise that covid nose has finally gone You will return to find someone else has cut the grass Three kinds […]

Filed Under: 365, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: #100 words #2023 challenge, creative writing, glimmers, joy, poem

Everyone is doing their best… 100 words

May 20, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Everyone is doing their best… Even the idiots, the dickheads and the pillocks with what they know; who they are. The prat doesn’t brush his teeth and say ‘today I’m going to see how many people I can irritate witless with my stupidity?’ No, he thinks, perhaps, his day is long, his lover unresponsive, or […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing

Pilgrims – 100 words

May 19, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Pilgrims   Crossing oceans, walking miles they come to stand together and receive – in exaltation – His attention, bestowed briefly, a blessing on every soul, heirloom memories, I remember when… in this ancient ceremonial place where 3000 years of humanity has gathered with so many stories: one purpose, and kindness transcends language shared water; […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, Bruce Springsteen, Circo Massimo, creative writing, Rome

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