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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

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

Don’t call me light red – 100 words

April 5, 2023 By Ellen

Don’t call me light red Passionate pink is sexy – Valentine’s hearts and ribbons Bubblegum, barbie, cotton candy, Squashums Pink for a girl Pink when the inside shows outside – the lips, the mouth, the eyes Watermelon, coral, flamingo Flamenco Pink is suggestive, makes them wink In the pink: never felt better White women’s pink […]

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

March – 100 words

March 1, 2023 By Ellen

March A yellow month daffodils, dandelion, gorse and the eyes of new-born daisies little lambkins, blossom gutters and premature chocolate eggs holly and Rudolph slip over the horizon behind and it’s spring forward into long shadows and the smell of burning meat in next door’s garden the buzz of distant mowers but we aren’t there […]

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

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