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Empty landscape – 100 words

December 7, 2025 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Empty landscape   Wind turbines rolling lazy in front of layered sky. Alto stratus, rainbowed crystals and morning mists retreating to the river where smoothed rocks chatter and turn. Stretched shadows from black bales, winter feed for cattle still cropping, hoof-deep in mud by the trough, flicking flies from rumps. That gate, its weary post […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, country life, pay attention, poem, quiet place

Goddess Wisdom – 100 words

September 6, 2024 By Ellen

When the solar wind howls it sets the magnetosphere spinning and Aurora takes flight. She stirs technicolour enchantments so ancient and mysterious, they spit in the eye of scientists with their coronal holes and ionisation. I yearn for the goddess’s wise blessing, so I go outside. My big sky is choppy with the distant M6 […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, aurora, aurora borealis, Cumbria, goddess

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 […]

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Another thing you can’t trust – 100 words

January 21, 2024 By Ellen

Another thing you can’t trust   They are only a generation from wolves, with blood on their teeth and head-back baying. Why would it stay when you tell it to? Instead, it’ll sit for a bit until a more interesting smell whistles shrill, from over there. And it will be gone. Not, of course, intending […]

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