A Message

 

  A message to her World

For K, who is her anchor

For P, her kindred spirit

For H, her brother

For T & J, her love children

For P, her lost one

For H, J, & O, her grandchildren

For S, O & F, their precious propagation 

For L, who understands

For some left out

Dear world

She loves you

She accepts you as you are

in all of your disguises 

in all your broken places

(as you in hers)

She will never leave you

voluntarily

or angrily

She needs you 

Your fidelity

Your shelter

Your council

Your energy 

Your gravity

Your wonder

Your joy

You are her multi faceted planet

Her home

Ellecee

Inspiration from:

Good Universe Next Door

30. Reverse engineer
What message would you like 

to send the world. Write it down 

and set it aside. Next, list the people 

you’d like to receive it. Now, write 

a poem that opens with the catalog 

of recipients and brings your message

 back in at the end. 

Mac & Cheese

 

Plated memories

Macaroni and cheese

Who could imagine?

(Maybe a few)

Always on anniversaries,

birthdays, mood days,

and more

She baked it for the children

Her daughter begged the recipe

It was not like “ordinary”

Mac & cheese, she said

Now it’s her daughter who bakes

Better than her’s

Everything improves when

passed on

Who would have thought?

A recipe fuelled with love,

all these years

a cliche perhaps

No matter, with each serving

Memories come, new ones

are made

Nostalgia burns

Ellecee

Inspiration from

Good Universe Next Door

5. Comfort/dis-comfort food
Write a poem describing a scene 

that involves comfort food and the

 solace it gives you. 

Steal the Joy

Family

“Christ the Lord is

risen today”

 2000 year old myth?

Does that bring up

the hackles?

How dare she!

Does it bring about

a head shaking in

agreement?

Reactions (to me) irrelevant

to this day

 Borrow the joy

steal the spirit

Have you forgotten

your renewals,

your little deaths

your rebirths

The day of the proposal

The day of your child’s birth

Losing a parent

Births of grandchildren

Great-grandchildren

Life’s moments when

everything changed

Experience those 

joys, 

those tears

Steal the spirit

of this special

day

Ellecee

Day 17 - NaPoWriMo - 2022

Celebrating family💕💕

 

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

 

She

A L’Arora  (a poetry form)

(dedicated to Adeline)

She is old and can no longer deny

the passage of time

 having its affect

At night visitors stand

at the foot of her bed

She blinks to force them to fade

but gloating they remain

reprehensible and staid

She is blessed with a family who cares

Her daughters visit every week,

sons dutiful as well

Her sister wants to comfort,

without patronizing but

with a loving heart

all dreading this quickening

of the day they are to part

Then one day, a gift,

a son has ferreted to find

Poems dedicated to his mother

When she was only 17

A young woman on the brink of life

A friendship gay and fleeting

but to the young poet
a blessed aesthetic meeting

This book brought her unexpected joy

Seventy years have passed before

And yet this gift brings back

all her years, intertwining,

a mosaic – her life – a beautiful design

laid out before her, so strong

Restored from within

Nothing gone

Ellecee



Crafted according to today's prompt from

imaginary garden with real toads

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