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Memento Mori – 100 words

February 16, 2024 By Ellen

Memento Mori Sunday afternoon: (freshly unified) council recycling point. (Family estate) cars cluster –household waste only. Can’t actually recycle. Don’t think too hard about the garbage mountain: final resting place. Vehicles gape – last stage decluttering. Pitch the cracked mirror into the skip where it teeters on the roof of a derelict toy-car garage. Rug […]

Filed Under: 100 Words Tagged With: dump, melancholy, prose poetry

If love was rain – 68 words

February 13, 2024 By Ellen

If love was rain   Check the forecast. Again. Unseasonably damp or drought? Incantation for precipitation. Then, ah -refreshing, quenching, fresh. Plashing, plopping. You know -green shoots, petrichor, yada. Stand barefoot, gasping and drenched – torrentially triumphant. Drinking it deep until – there’s floods, cancellations. Driving drizzle and damn – now the roof leaks. Drips […]

Filed Under: 100 Words Tagged With: love, poem, poetry, Valentine's, Valentine's Day

seaside conversation – 100 words

February 10, 2024 By Ellen

seaside conversation   what is destiny? asked a seagull as I unwrap my chips good question, I say, steam burps from my parcel, a potato inferno of salt and grease it’s the future, the end of the road X marks the spot your inevitability, given where you start teeth tear and liberate the sauce – […]

Filed Under: 100 Words, other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, prose poetry, writing

The love of laundry – 100 words

January 21, 2024 By Ellen

The love of laundry   Your clothes are puddled, shorts, pants, socks nested. Pocket with a lolly stick broken in three place and two seashells, not from the same creature. It smells of your outdoors body. The evidence of slide tackles will need that pink stuff, so I rub it in with my finger. Later […]

Filed Under: 100 Words, 365, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, childhood, laundry, life, parenting, prose poetry

A visit from my imaginary lover – 100 words

January 21, 2024 By Ellen

A visit from my imaginary lover They came to my house and I surprised myself by opening the door for them. They said ‘I see you’, and I said ‘I doubt it, your kind never do. And don’t think I’ll tidy up before we have tea’. We had tea sitting on hard seats because I […]

Filed Under: 100 Words, 365, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, being seen, prose poetry, writing prompt

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