TANKA TUESDAY # 55....EKPHRASIS

a birthday present
from a kind and good person
i have never met
beautiful like his flowers
maybe-i will never know

MLMM MONDAY WORDLE # 467

 shine cushion claw music turtle price old cushion shape unusual private single

she collected turtle shaped old cushions
a  very private person
wore a t shirt with the message 
stay single and shine
an unusually gifted pianist
long painted claws a no no
music her life
an unworldly person
did not know the price of anything
polished her door chimes daily
a bit eccentric

FRIDAY WRITINGS # 217...POETS AND STORYTELLERS UNITED

Message To The World

too late in life

sheila came to realise
there are no prizes for being capable
the more you can do
the more is expected of you

she began to see
the value of contrived artifice
practised time immemorial
by breathless helpless females
taught by mothers and grandmothers
(except sheila's )

she may consider ditching the akubra
become a domestic goddess

swanning about in a kimono
making tea being very zen
instead of mending fences

by next christmas
she could be transformed 
in pink ruffles
with long lacquered nails
and a squeaky voice
tending to rose petals on the tree

then again

PS

WHAT"S GOING ON....THELMA AND LOUISE

https://newwhatsgoingon.blogspot.com

https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/viewfinder/articles/bff-thelma-louise-tanya-lucy-revisit-30-years-on/

THELMA AND LOUISE

A movie that high lighted sexual harrassment that women encounter and their lack of freedom in a male controlled society. A movie that shows women empowered but ultimately shows that there is a long way to go.

CINQUAIN

freedom
was the main goal
not taking the abuse
empowerment at last  still a 
sad end

W3 Prompt # 201....THE SKEPTICS KADDISH....ECHO POEMS

firstly
they say he does not exist
really
really?

i believe in Santa
then
some say he's bourgeois
promoting consumerism
chortles and guffaws
LMAO
chortles and guffaws

has the world 
become awfully strange
yes probably
probably

WATER HERBS

and little piggies do fly
some folk 
believe in santa as well
some parents say  their children believe
money grows on trees
some folk believe what they read
on the net
some don't believe anything at all
oh well hells bells
oh well
oh well

TANKA TUESDAY CHALLENGE NO 54

 

colourful couple
at least they have each other
romance in the wild

CINQUAIN

oh dear
we are so tired
eating all those gum leaves
we need to sleep and have a big 
cuddle

MLMM MONDAY WORDLE # 466

prism dance seek drift sigh story fingers colour cheek  snuggle marvel shadow

the marvel
the colour
the dance 
the shadow
the sigh
the drift of the story
emanated from his fingers
as she snuggled up 
her cheek against him
seeking a prism of magic