Foodie

 

Foodie too
Too foodie
Eggs Benedict
sticking to hips
Tummy tucked with
layers of crème brûlée
Perpetual guise
 onion rings on thighs
Time for a change
Some confusion
How about 
Asian Fusion?
Mediterranean?
Dim sum?
One conclusion
Foodie’s palate
To be subdued
Starting with a
new attitude

Ellecee

Day 6 - NaPoWriMo - 2022

Inspired by Skylover Poetry & Art Word List

and appetite

Loss

 

Posted to Instagram April 23, 2021

Written for NaPoWriMo 2021 - Day 23

Inspired by

Skylover Wordlist

shallow, addiction, glance

Wounded

 

Posted on Instagram - April. 22, 2021

Written for NaPoWriMo 2021 - Day 22

Inspired by

Skylover Wordlist

Obscure, ichor,alien, myth, resolution

Watermark

 

An old vagrant

gone awry

Prognosis - rebel

Uncanny though,

no transgression

to report

Squatting in the firelight

from a flaming

burn barrel

A dim watermark

on a somnolent night

Ellecee

Inspired by 

Kerry O’Connor’s

word list on Instagram

@skyloverwordlist

Finali

The bush plane awaits

The tarmac is hot underfoot

I feel the heat through the

soles of my feet

A familiar scorch from

past lives

The breeze an insistent presence

a persistent touch

I’m excited

An adrenaline rush

reddens my cheeks

“There’s no turning back”

the commandant says

“Deaths are many, 

reprieves are few.

What have you got to say?”

I walk toward infinity

I don’t look back

“Don’t give up”

I say

“Don’t give up.”

Ellecee

Inspired by

imaginary garden with real toads - Bang, whimper, hiss

and

Skywriting - Deaths

Note to all: it has been a wonderful month. Thank you all so much for your comments and support. You are appreciated. And although I didn’t get to everyone with comments, I read and enjoyed you all❣️❣️🌹Until next year then 🙏

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

Novel Union

What is love

if not 

acceptance

of flaws that lovers

fail to see

Eyes clouded by

the carnal

and yet mindful

of the numberless

possibilities

We’re I not broken

you might not

have seen me

your nature being

to offer solace 

to solve the puzzle

from the strewn pieces

that you see 

This compassion 

drew me in

holds me fast

within this novel union

palpable, constant,

and

enduring

Ellecee

Inspired by

imaginary garden with real toads - Harper Lee

and

Skywriting - numberless

Affusion

Hot water

barely bearable

cascades over her body

secular affusion
washing away
negativity
perception willingly ascends
with the steam
her body releases itself 
from angst, pity, doubt,
stoicism
embedded within
her zodiac sign
returns unfettered
tension disintegrates
leaving her world
momentarily
unscathed


Ellecee 

Inspired by

imaginary garden with real toads - reboot, rewind, recycle
and
Skywriting - zodiac

On My Own

Lisa Gordon Photography

I am

a pitiful thing

mouth agape

begging

Crippled in

a crowded nest

heaped on rockery

Unable to move

on my own

It only looks like

the beginning

In truth

it is

the end

Ellecee

Inspired by

imaginary garden with real toads - Artistic Interpretations

and

Skywriting - Rockery

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

The Plan

He was the one

Handsome and entitled

he could have anyone

She would play hard to get

Not clutch his pant leg

as others were prone to do

Not flirt and flatter endlessly

She, the remote one,

would capture his delight

Her mystery would draw him in

Being elusive would beguile him

into her surreptitious snare

He was attentive and obliging

eager to relate

Then married someone else

a damsel in distress

a Cinderella type

She is salty with remorse

how could this be?

That yet again, for her,

“the best laid schemes 

o’mice an’ men

gang aft agley”

Ellecee

Inspired by:

A well known quote from To a Mouse by Robert Burns

imaginary gardens with real toads - when good wishes go bad

and

Skywriting - Salt