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Flowers, for me? 100 words

February 21, 2023 By Ellen

Flowers, for me? Oh, how lovely, I’ll get a vase Optimistic tulips on juicy stalks Peach-skin roses and irises with perky up-dos One-eyed narcissi and peony pompoms Don’t forget to change the water Well-behaved calendula and carnations calling for clean white linen Kindly stocks play an overture Oh, how lovely! They’re lasting well Painstaking tissue […]

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

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

Why the grass appears greener as you get older

June 18, 2016 By Ellen

  There was a time when I believed that older people drove more slowly because some essential fire had gone out and, defeated, they’d given up on the seek of thrill. Now I understand it’s just that their eyesight is such that at 70mph they have less time with the road signs in focus than […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: ageing, flowers, gardens, in my life, in the world, nature, on my mind, Something happened in my life, something happened in my world

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