Jake

 

She calls her Chrones disease

Jake

Jake is a mean guy

the meanest

He sneaks up on her

and rips her open with pain

He doesn’t discriminate

She could be in bed

dreaming,

She could be at the beach

baking in the sun

She could be out on a

first date

smooching

She’s tried going to the

rest room and

saying

“Bugger off Jake”

But 

He doesn’t 

So

she drowns him

in Tramodol

Ellecee

Inspiration from

Good Universe Next Door

16. Hold it up to the light
Write a poem that reframes 

something that plagues you. 

In the draft, offer yourself some 

grace and hope.

Journeying

 

She does so want

to be good at healing

Not to be sceptical or

too believing

Not to be dramatic

as if she only has a burden

To be nonchalant even

All smiles, awaiting

positive outcomes

The season helps,

though the air is

very cold, the sun is

shining through

Crocuses are blooming

in the flower beds

White, yellow, the colour

purple,

She remembers the lines

of a famous poem

“When I am old, I shall 

wear purple”

“Warning” it’s called

What was the warning?

Aging perhaps?

She has no desire to 

wear purple

but there is an underground

desire to be more

herself, 

Whatever that is 

Digression is her strong point

What of being good at healing?

What about that journey?

She thinks it might go well,

So many prayers,

so much encouragement,

so many taking part

She is not alone

That may be enough

Ellecee

Day 2 NaPoWriMo 2025

Inspired by

Good Universe Next Door

“write a poem starting with a 

wish then go on a journey that

 brings the speaker to a place

 they’re able to fulfill it.”

Change

 A Change is Gonna Come - written by Sam Cooke

A change is gonna come
Is it? 
Really.

You’ve been seeing things
have you? That make you
believe so.
Show me, I want to know
Oh we’re all hoping
God only knows 
But we tire of the politics,
sanguine metaphors, and no shows.
Language is changing, yes
it is,
Laws to tell you what to say,
not to say
Yes there is.
But there’s always been talking
Do you think new vocabulary
will change the vibe?
Have a look around
see any signs?
I want to see the changes
for the better
I really do
I’ve got babes in my family
the future matters to
Maybe they’ll be cause for change
God knows their trying
 to make a difference in this crazy world
that’s all lopsided 

You say a change is gonna come
Is it?
Really?

Ellecee

Day 29 - NaPoWriMo 2023

Inspired by:

Sanaa Rizvi

Musical inspirations

Today: A Change is Gonna Come - written by Sam Cooke

 

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

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

Participation

 Mystery and hope

the gathering of the lights

Participation

First published on Instagram April 27th

for day 27 of  NaPoWriMo 2021

Inspired by Hellokoo.co

Hope

 Posted on Instagram April 24, 2021

Written for NaPoWriMo - Day 24

Inspired by

Skylover Wordlist

graphite,periwinkle, Aegean,change, Jupiter

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 🙏

Streets

Photo by Ellecee

Walking, walking, walking

without destination 

or goals

Thinking, thinking, thinking,

who are these others

strangers or lost souls

Smiling, smiling, smiling,

pretense of togetherness 

or reversal of roles

Needing, needing, needing

Solace given in the wind

continuing in strolls

Ellecee

Inspired by

imaginary garden with real toads 

And

Skywriting

Entrances

Your entrances are gaudy

and colourful

You dance outside my window

playing the fool

Gesturing

as touches are forbidden

Your sweet breath on my cheek

decreed a danger
April springs forth without warmth
but still I laugh
My beautiful fool
entrancing me
Untouchable
but so real




Ellecee

Written for NaProWriMor 2020

Inspired by

Imaginary garden with real toads

and

Skywriting

Phoenix

Is it a dream?

Those nights when I morph into

a scarlet phoenix

rising from ash

riding the thermals 

high into the heavens

Shedding tears

to sooth the desolate

giving hope to multitudes

whose quandary it is to foresee.

Unceasing in empathy

compassion filling the void

onward and upward

to the sun

kindled to ash

beginning again

Ellecee

Myth of the Phoenix

 Inspired by today's prompt from

imaginary garden with real toads

for