Choices

Out of Standard: Multiple Choice
It’s time for some Multiple Choice in the Garden

Choices

You brought me a star
Shall I wish upon it
Or fling it back into the night

You brought me a song
Shall I sing it back to you
Or muffle the melody

You brought me a poem
Shall I recite it aloud
Or let it sit on the shelf

You brought me your heart
I will hold it tenderly
Next to mine

Thought Crimes

Flash 55 Plus

It’s the 55 word challenge in the Garden . The Plus is to use words from George Orwell’s novel 1984.

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Thought Crimes

I have committed thought crimes
On a daily basis
In the car
At the gym
Sitting across from a friend
Not the Down With Big Brother
Kind of thoughts
But hurtful thoughts if
They were spoken aloud
Some mean-spirited
Others jealous
I’m glad there are no
Thought Police
If there were I
Would be incarcerated

The Supplicant

In the Imaginary Garden it’s –
Fireblossom Friday : escape to the past
Of the pictures we could choose from for inspiration, this is the one that spoke to me
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They taught me to bow my head
To repeat a penitent’s prayer
Lower my eyes
And quiet my voice
Say no thank you
Yes please
Be seen
Not heard
But no one thought
To teach me
How to live
Without
You

A Collaboration for Christmas

COLLABORATING FOR CHRISTMAS
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Hi Toads, Season’s Greetings.

Your challenge, on this eve of Christmas, is a collaboration. I have set the pace, be it chapter or verse, you continue in the style and number of words you wish ( yes!!! number of words you wish)

If you are adding from my piece, your post must start with my piece and continue into your piece.

And my generous spirit for the season, adds another bonus option.
You can continue from the piece i have given OR you may read someone else’s which consist of [what i gave plus their add on] and, then you add to that.

Please remember, to credit persons, for any part thereof, their work, appearing in your post
Yes toads we are Collaborating for Christmas; Fashion me your words and while you’re at it, have lots of fun.

AND

whether you observe or not, Be Blessed for Christmas, have a wonderful one.

❧✿❧

It was the day before Christmas, he was hungry, mighty hungry,
He stalked the pantry, the cupboards were empty,
He didn’t want to sleep, he was too hungry for that
Guess what, no, not guest what? Guess what???

Shhhhhhhh!!!
The last festival he had eaten was, Halloween
No, not the last time he had eaten, the last festival!!!

For he was, The Eater Of Great Joy
But that, could never satisfy him.
Shudder, shudder!!!

He had heard about Santa.
He had heard about A Star.”
COLLABORATING FOR CHRISTMAS © gillena cox 2016

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… He had heard about
the great Joy and
Started to salivate
Thinking about the feast
He would have
Greed infesting his heart
And so he waited
…… and waited
……. and waited
Until his eyes drooped
And he began to snore
The star shone through the
Open window –
Santa climbed in and
Gently kissed his cheek
A cool breeze roused him
From a happy dream and he smiled

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres
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Will I ever recover
Discover how to get over
your absence
Prevents me from moving
Or staying I’m
Straying into moonbeams
Looking for a shadow
Indigo image
To take your place


Kerry has introduced us to the art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres for our inspiration in the Garden today

Snow Day

It’s ‘Stuff and Nonsense’ in the Garden today
Just for fun we have three made-up words to use in our poems –
snarfdiffanous, rhambangle and lalamilty.  I even added some of my own 😉

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Snow Day

Delightful
Insightful
And just plain snarfdiffanous
The best part of all
There is no school
No stinking rules

Sledding
Heading
Down steepy hills
No stranger to danger
Scoff at lalamity
Don’t give a damnity

Amazing
Fire blazing
Snuggle under a rhambangle
Slurping hot chocolate
Watching cartoons
Munch crunching phaloons

So Long Friend

It’s time for ‘Bits of Inspiration’ in the Garden and today we’re getting that inspiration from Shoes

So Long Friend

time to give you the boot
my old friend
no use sticking out your
tongue
you just don’t support me
any longer
you’ve tied one on once
too often
our relationship is rather
run-down
there is no shine
i’m left feeling
flat
you and i no longer
fit
it’s not me, it’s
you

Heartsong

B&Ps Shadorma and Beyond – Nov 12, 016
Leonard Cohen is our inspiration for this week – especially his song Hallelujah

And over in the Imaginary Garden With Real Toads we are writing about those Still Points in our lives.

Heartsong

They stole my
words And spun them round
they didn’t
sound The same
Or even tell the story
That I meant to tell

They set them
To a melody
that Charmed the crowds And
fooled some fools
Until I
Wrenched them back again and sang
The song of my heart

cgk ’16