OctPoWriMo 2015 Day 8
free form: Simple things… “Where the Road Leads”
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Don’t you just love the cities ?
so much to do ?
The city girl is no longer… now a country girl
An accidental country girl…
a temporary home after 40 years now where the heart lives
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Did you go to the Mall ? (of America)
I had avoided it like the plague.
But I go,
…. I’d loved the amusement park,
and Lego City before.
Shopping list in hand, I traipse the floors one by one…
remembered where the food court was..
sat and pondered.
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Acres of stores and not one thing found on the list.
Sigh.
The car luckily found the same day !
Men on golf carts to help the lost be found.
It was town to town,
shopping center to shopping center
to buy each item.
Shopping centers bigger than the town where I live.
Suburbs bigger than the town where I live.
And the streets and hi-ways … the traffic another thing.
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The question repeats.
My answer disappointing.
The visit was to make Mom happy
in her temporary nursing home space.
None-the-less I replied.
No, I don’t want to live in the Cities.
Happy in my accidental seaside country home.
Each time the question is asked
no longer need to ponder the answer:
“I don’t think so !”
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OctPoWriMo 2015 Day 8 free form:
Simple things…
“Where the Road Leads”
“…let’s talk about something you wouldn’t change.
You did it and you’re happy that you did. It could be a success or a failure.
Perhaps a choice that others may perceive as a failure,
but you know it was the best choice for you.
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Perhaps you took the road less traveled and it was a success for you.”- T.A. Woods
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“…there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don’t really have to do.
Getting to the point where we can tell the difference is a major milestone in the simplification process.”
― Elaine St. James, Living the Simple Life: A Guide to Scaling Down and Enjoying More
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Photos: Mall of America, Minneapolis, MN
Downtown Ellsworth … two blocks both sides
of the street with parallel parking.
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Downtown Ellsworth, ME USA. Two blocks each side of Main Street. Parallel parking
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Mall of America, Minneapolis, MN USA
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OctPoWriMo 2015 Day 9
Prompt: color/nonet poem
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A Moon Garden
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romantic white blooms and silver leaves
moonlight garden at midnight glows
Little Park just down the street
benches of white granite
placed just right to pause
white dahlias
moon flowers
mindful
dreams
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In poetry,
a nonet is a nine line poem,
with the first line containing nine syllables,
the next eight,
so on until the last line has one syllable.
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(c) 2015 Saradunn
moon garden Hydrangea, my garden
OctPoWriMo 2015….Day 7
What I wish was different
if wishes were horses
my father’d say
then beggars would ride
If wishes of old ladies were like the breeze
I’d feel as young as my mind says I am
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the bittersweet of aging
the loss of function for myself,
the loss of friends I thought would always be there
wishing they could be here just a day longer
fond memories to cherish to the end of my day
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the knowledge I have now…
the tasks of growing and living wisely
I wish I’d known much sooner
not to be ~ as others say
good and otherwise serve me well
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if wishes were horses,
we’d all ride into the sunset as one
daisy chains in our hair
singing about the changing times
saving the earth and its people
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photo: (c) 2015 Saradunn
Hippie Van in Marboro by Sea, Maine, USA
still ready to travel, curtains in the windows
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