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Skins – 100 words

May 5, 2023 By Ellen

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

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

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

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

Upcycle – 100 words

May 1, 2023 By Ellen

Upcycle   Life leaves its mark scars from collisions from emergency intervention, mysteriously mottled, skin stretched, returned corrugated, deflated balloon, all fun exhaled holiday, lobster, peel, tan, fade, repeat the nail that didn’t survive the half marathon the eyebrows that didn’t survive the eighties rough where it used to be smooth low where it used […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review, Uncategorized Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, decorate. age, tattoo, upcycle

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