Launched

 

In January, 1944

the Siege of Leningrad was lifted,

Allied troops bombed Berlin,

the first Victory ship was launched,

and so was she.

Bursted out screaming, pushed by 

haemorrhaging,

Stuck in the womb

they said,

Unable to float for the last month

they said

Swaddled immediately.

To ease the terror

they said 

Mother overwhelmed,

packed for the bleeding,

floating away,

A blessing,

they said

Mother and child survived,

they said

Ellecee

Inspiration from

Good Universe Next Door

27. What goes up but never

 comes down? 
Your age. 🤣 Terrible jokes aside, 

ages and aging make great poetry 

fodder. Write a poem about a specific 

year in your life. It can be an age that 

has passed and is memorable or one 

that’s to come that you may be dreading 

or hope to embrace. / 

Angst

 

She lay quietly listening

for the latch to open

Her anxiety mounting

as each hour passed

His steak was over cooked

Nothing one could change

He threw his plate

into the garbage

He pushed her aside

and left

Her relief was short-lived

He would be drinking,

his animosity building

All his small resentments

morphing into monumental

insults

worthy of retributive justice

She should take flight,

hide

but where?

A woman in a war zone

alone in the darkness

 of night

Ellecee

Day 25 - NaPoWriMo 2024

Prompt: to be a woman in a war zone 

From: TP_Poetry

The Sum of all Grief

The sum of all grief 

arrives at the end

of a life

The sum of all

deaths

Siblings,husbands, friends

children

The sum of all 

faculties lost

Hearing, eyesight, balance,

cognitive thinking

The sum of all hope

for recognition, inclusiveness,

new love, empathy

The sum of all pain

physical, emotional, visual

The sum of all desires

a lifetime of them

met and unmet

These and more

always present in

her mind

The sums of a lifetime

the sum of all grief

Ellecee

Day 23 - NaPoWriMo 2024
Prompt: The Sum of all Grief
From: TP_Poetry

 What constitutes a better world?
Amid angst, and fear, and chicanery
Take my hand and show me

Ellecee

Day 16 - NaPoWriMo 2024

Prompt “a better world”

From TP_Poetry

Truce

We are warring

Such hostility 

All the energy

fuelling our intimacy

redirected

to painful chicanery.

We take no prisoners

Nor bury  our dead

Within this non-abating cyclone

love is literally dying 

all our dreams 

decaying.

Please

Please

Before there’s

 no returning

Ceasefire

Ellecee 

Day 1 - NaPoWriMo 2024

Ceasefire

Inspired by TP_Poetry

Let Go

 “MY IMMORTAL,” WRITTEN BY BEN MOODY.

Let go

I, too, am tired of being here

You’re holding way past time for letting go

You don’t look forward but only behind

Lost tears, lost fears, all gone,

No hand to hold

Wake up you ARE alone

I want to fly, have my release

from all past pain and sacrifice 

I’ve earned my peace

and so have you

Let go the pain, let go your fears

let go regret, life is yours to take

You must understand it’s 

you who’s holding on

You are the only one in my way

Your way

Give up, give in, sweep everything

clean, start anew,

I want to fly, I want to soar,

I want to hear the music, see

the light, if such exist

I may never know

 while tethered here 

I’ll over rule your life

and you are stealing my awakening

Now you are enlightened,

Now you know

So let me go

Ellecee

Day 28 - NaPoWriMo 2023

Inspired by:

Sanaa Rizvi

Musical Inspirations

Today: My Immortal - written by Ben Moody

My Surrender

 Chrissie Hynde wrote this with Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg, 

This poem is in response

My Surrender

I can’t believe you love me
The reason that I cry
I’m afraid to have you hold me
 In case I have to let you go
I have nothing to confess, unless,
I love you, I love you
No one ever cared, no one
ever said the kind of words you say
I have nothing to hide, unless,
I love you, I love you
I want to give in
Oh but I do
I want you to come along
and walk a mile with me
And so, just you and me,
I’d never be alone
No one’s ever said they’d
guard  me, keep me from
harm’s way,
No one’s ever said, the kind
of words you say
I want to give in,
Oh but I do
Will you take my hand
I want to give in
Because I love you,
I love you


Ellecee

Day 26 - NaPoWriMo 2023

Inspired by:

Sanaa Rizvi

Musical Inspirations

Today: I’ll Stand By You /Chrissie Hynde,Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg, 

Speed

“I live my life a quarter mile at a time”

The Fast and the Furious (2001)

You keep on

liein to me

mister,

You tear up my

feelins like old

rags to use on

that damn car.

You out every night burnin

rubber

while I

lay here waitin on

nothin”

“That’s us Babe,

the fast and the furious,

the fastest 

and

the mostest furious”

Ellecee

Day 8 - NAPOWRIMO 2023

Inspired by:

Sanaa Rizvi

Conversations

Quote - from The Fast and the Furious

 

The Fib

 

Previously posted on Instagram April 30th

for day 30 of NaPoWriMo 2021

Going

I see the signs

every day

your favourite books

disappearing

Your soccer shoes

your skis

your winter coat

your signed photo

of  B. B. King

your vinyl

the beer mug you stole.

fromThe Nag’s Head

You think I don’t notice

such small things

mementos  of your life

Nothing of me

no match for you

Ellecee

Inspired by

imaginary garden with realtoads - This is (almost) the end

and

Skywriting - Match