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Imposter – 100 words

May 9, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Imposter   I used to have a hat. It was beautiful with a dashing brim made of the softest emerald felt the colour of spring moss with a feather that swooped. I swished a cape around me it was green like midnight forests and the velvet stroked my back. It fastened at my throat with […]

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

Mindset – 100 words

May 8, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Mindset   I’m done with making peace:   with seeing rainbows in the oily scum of dish water with the scented softness of tumble dryer fluff in the symmetry of a spreadsheet in the swooping freedom city canyon seagulls viewed from a fifth floor office   Instead: I want the uneven paths and wind blasted […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, adventure, creative writing, poem, positivity, toxic positivity

Mosaic me – 100 words

May 7, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Mosaic me all the places I have been and everything I have seen all of the kisses especially the ones I chose to forget every surprise success even when no one else saw me each mouthful of cheese the body blows and narrow escapes every song I met and made my friend when I got […]

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

Caged by a metaphor – 100 words

May 6, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Caged by a metaphor   Hard-baked stone formed by an eruption of fire and fury and petrified by terror   A moat of stinking slime patrolled by armoured reptiles with teeth like broken bar-brawl bottles   Dense thorn-sharp tangles woven tight protecting soft, pale tenderness as it sleeps its life away   A carapace of […]

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

Skins – 100 words

May 5, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Skins   I wore a wetsuit into the lake sun glinted, elbowing through youthful foliage, neoprene absorbed the blows of water’s rising assault   I was braced, mustered: leaving fear on the shore with my dry robe and car keys where it watched me rising proud from wind-fractured water   I sought that tidal inhalation, […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review, Uncategorized Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, cold water swimming, creative writing, Cumbria, poem, swimming, Ullswater

Bridles – 100 words

May 4, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Bridles My mind is a stable full of horses – glossy and glorious. There are times when they gallop in the surf – magnificent and free. But do you know how much work it takes to get them down the twisty beach path without eating cabbages in gardens we pass or pausing to bite each […]

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

Yoga is that friend – 100 words

May 3, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Yoga is that friend   The one who says it doesn’t matter that your leggings have a hole in them, get off your arse and into class The one who says if it feels terrible today, then sit it out, no one will care The one who says is that all you’ve got? – I […]

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

Succession – 100 words

May 2, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Succession This week a man gets a new hat, or rather it’s a very old hat and it’s made of metal and stones not knitted for comfort or warmth and it won’t keep the sun off, but it is the hat he was born to wear a destiny hat, if you like. One day perhaps, […]

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

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