Inuendo

 

The pungent scent of 

cherry blossoms 

dissipates as she leaves

the park

She’s been reflecting

Innuendo has it that she

has lost again

The old refrain repeated

over and over

She could almost 

feel nostalgic

“Unlucky at love”

“bitter and aging”

She smiles

Almost benevolent 

toward gossips who

can’t perceive 

her joys repeated

again and again

Because of her courage

to flow 

and grow

and

let go

Ellecee

Day 30 - NaPoWriMo
Inspired by Skylover Word List

 

So much emotion

conveyed in just

one touch

I falter when I’m 

near you

Exhausted

from the rush

Ellecee

Day 28 - NaPoWriMo - 2022

Inspired by antiquated love

Conundrum

“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. 
But you have to stop sooner or later, and
then you still have to decide what to do”

C S Lewis

She came on retreat to weep

For all lost causes 

Hers and others

She hasn’t wept for years

She takes meds

to divert chaos

Problematic

 as all emotions 

are equally 

subdued

She could skip some 

pills

This is a beautiful place

to let go

But then she might not

be able to drive home

and she might not 

cry anyway

Ellecee

Day 26 - NaPoWriMo - 2022

Inspired by C S Lewis

 

You are my spring 

budding intimacy

anticipation of warmth

Enough sunny days

to grow ourselves

and flower

Ellecee

Day 25 - NaPoWriMo - 2022

Inspired by Spring

Sweet Madness

A life continues

released from consequences 

Sorrow is sweet madness

Ellecee

Day 20 - NaPoWriMo - 2022

An April Haiku

 

Clouds

 Clouds speak to her

Metaphorically of course

We all know clouds can’t speak

Don’t we?

Ellecee

Day 18 - NaPoWriMo - 2022
Inspired by a cloudy day

Loons

 

The loons are here

Their lonely call

rises through the

morning mist

I can see them

on the lake

Efficiently fishing

one disappears

momentarily

Soon seen again a

distance away

Every year they set a

mellow pace for summer

So difficult

To follow

Ellecee

Day 16 - NaPoWriMo - 2022

Inspired by Spring

Dawn

 

The dawn’s rays suffuse

the river with a veneer of pink

“Morning has broken”

 

Ellecee

Day 15 - NaPoWriMo - 2022

Inspired by the beautiful hymn
 Morning has Broken
Written by Eleanor Farjeon in 1931
And arranged and sung by Cat
Stevens in 1972

Blooms

 

Warmth from Spring sunshine

Rich scent of leaves moldering

Enabler of blooms

Ellecee

Day 12 - NaPoWriMo - 2022

Haiku

Inspiration from Pastor Jenn’s Garden

Precious Chaos

 

Precious chaos

Seems a contradiction

unless you have in your life

a curly-headed, black-eyed,

boy

Full of energy and smiles

while building towers

or grumpily signalling his want

for TV

He lights up our world

There are few poetic metaphors

to describe how the arrival 

of this small boy

could open a great-grandmother’s

heart

An old woman

not missing anything in life

So she thought

Ellecee

Day 7 - NaPoWriMo - 2022
Inspired by my great-grandson

Romantic Love

 

Romantic love

A memory

A refrain from the past

Blending bitter with sweet

magnolia blossoms and icicles 

ardent rhetoric and screams

soft sighs and magnificent lies

Should you go there again

remember the dream

forget the scheme

Ellecee

Day 5, NaPoWriMo

Inspired by Skylover Poetry April Word List

Sunrise Surprise

Revolving seasons

Return of a winter scene

Sunrise surprise

Ellecee

Awoke this morning to a beautiful winter scene

Interfering with Spring

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Day 4 NaProWrMo

 

Hope

 Posted on Instagram April 24, 2021

Written for NaPoWriMo - Day 24

Inspired by

Skylover Wordlist

graphite,periwinkle, Aegean,change, Jupiter

Bums Up

 

Written for NaPoWriMo 2021 ~ Day 17

Stepping

 

Written for NaPoWriMo 2021 ~ Day 10

 

I Forget

How can I forget

the troubles borne,

and yet I do

The struggle of the Covid ill

their here and now

and yet I do

That caution should be foremost 

in this addled mind,

and yet I do

My eyes see flowers everywhere,

my head is in my dreams

of future schemes,

My heart is with my family,

many far away,

I should not crave

pre Covid life

and yet I do

        

Ellecee

Written for NaPoWriMo 2021 ~ Day 8

 

Thermals

Do thermals thrive
above the clouds?
To push me ever higher
that I might see the miracle 
below me?
Mountain tops
crusted with snow
Ancient as the earth’s
beginning
Water towers of the world
without them the earth 
would parch
A narrow window exists
as climate change threatens
sublimation
A calamity for humankind
but not mountains
Mountains in their majesty
defy extinction
Perhaps forever

Ellecee

Inspired by
imaginary garden with real toads - Wild woman - natural wonders
and
Skywriting - Narrow

Cabined

“but now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears” 

William Shakespeare - Macbeth

Today I graft with  

words in homage to
the Bard

whose language lives

to this day and bears

truth to every happening

 Now I  am cabined here alone

cribbed by a hovering virus

Confined with my own thoughts

how one cunning crazed maniac 
could kill 22 without restraint

Our townsmen and guardians

fallen and gone

Incongruity abounds

Saucy doubts and fears

reign unfettered

during this

unearthly time

Ellecee

Inspired by

imaginary garden with real toads -the Bard
and
Skywriting -  cunning

A Parable

‘

 Ah, you have found me
Linger and listen
So few pass this way
and when they do
they don’t look up
and when they do
they don’t see
Wait, wait, I know you see
Linger and listen
Hearken to a parable
of me

I was a skilful hunter

ensconced in a tree blind,

a doe and her fawn

appearing below me

Although against many laws

secular and sacred

I took aim and shot

A great gust spun me ‘round

Momentarily mesmerized I

awaken

solidified

My head this bulbous bulb

My body to forever be

locked within this tree

Pity me

Ellecee

Inspired by

imaginary garden with real toads - Tree Mythology
and
Skywriting - Parable

My Cant

Ellecee

Inspired by 

Skylover Poetry