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Aye IA – 100 words

March 5, 2023 By Ellen

Aye AI It’s the latest addition to the frightening list soon, they say, we wordsmiths will be unnecessary machines will vomit everything they need to get our messages across. Across where? Who knows? Giant buckets of dictionaries, heated, agitated until, with a burp of punctuation, a sentence escapes. A grammatically correct construction: born to be […]

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Overthinking – 100 words

February 25, 2023 By Ellen

Overthinking I have a small head, which is surprising when you consider how much thinking goes on in it. If brains were like biceps, I’d need a coracle for a hat. Not an oracle, though that might be more allegorical. When I need to know the answer – the right answer – instead of the […]

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

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 […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, hag stone, poetry

Vanishing act

March 16, 2022 By Ellen

Love, they say. Whether it’s the sneaky, while-you-were-looking-elsewhere kind Or a thunderbolt that smacks you And leaves you reeling like walking into a door in the dark, It arrives – a huge and solid thing Immovable and permanent Stone I love you, they say And it’s a fact, like gravity Or the wetness of rain […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: creative, love, poem, poetry

A light in the distance

March 13, 2022 By Ellen

There was a rainbow across the valley. Today. It started with a colourful blister under the cloud next to the barn. And it grew up, up into the violet grey. A natural pride flag unfurling upward from the pot of gold, And other metaphors. Elsewhere, across valleys in other countries illumination comes from enemy incendiary […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: metaphor, poem, poetry, Rainbow, Ukraine

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