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Strings attached – 100 words

February 15, 2023 By Ellen

Strings attached My love is unconditional – an animal born in viscera. Hardwired. Evolved. Oxytocin enchantment distracted me from my enslavement. The journey began with keeping that outraged and unshelled tyrant alive. Hormone drunk, I vowed to nourish and protect – no matter what – and my noble intention did endure the most unreasonable of […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, boys, family, other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, motherhood, parenthood, poem, unconditional love

Hope – 100 words

February 14, 2023 By Ellen

Hope There’s an old man buying flowers twisted fingers fumbling for change, I smile and hope they are welcomed with a kiss and put into the same glass vase she’s used for years – a wedding present – because then I’ll know that love can be true and not just a story told to sell […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, flowers, love, poem, romance, Valentine's

Hag stone – 100 words

February 13, 2023 By Ellen

Hag stone Whatever I wear, like magic, it’s in my pocket. Smooth and comfortable in the heart of my palm. The tips of my fingers dance it over and over in the fluff and crumbs. I hardly know I’m doing it. There’s a rhythm to the turning tipping one moment into the next like the […]

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In the end – 100 words

February 11, 2023 By Ellen

In the end The day went awry – trivial, irritate you to your core kind of awry: machines that don’t start and mess that won’t stop. You know, the kind… plans slithering through my fingers, time relentlessly cranking. So, empty handed, I went to the woods where dead leaves scurried around my ankles and blank-eyed […]

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

Therapy or selfcare – 100 words

February 6, 2023 By Ellen

Therapy or selfcare One of them makes you cry, the other smells of roses One of them is an unscheduled trip to a strange new country, the other guarantees great views One of them is all the ways you were wrong, the other feels oh so smug One of them accepts your catastrophic cock-ups, the […]

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

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