Today’s post is for dVerse Poetics: Muse Mixology (where the talented De offers us a cocktail of words to use; and to stir them, and mix them ‘outside the, well, bar’! and keeping it under eleven times three) and for ABC Wednesday‘s letter E – E is for Eleven – that is how old my little girl turned today 🙂 it is on days like these when we truly realize how time flies. (and when a family member wished her and told me, well, she is almost a teenager… , that put it in a whole other perspective of time and its speed!)
She threw back a look
“Here I go, straight up“;
My bones seemed liquid,
“Courage, mom”, her voice,
a little shaken, when I heard,
’twas my tonic, my elixir,
– I stood straight up.
And a random look at the number ’11’ (eleven)
Happy Birthday to your daughter.
thank you Brenda!
This use of "liquid" and then "courage" is so clever! LOVE it.
thank you De! the more time i spend reading your poetry, the more i try to find new ways to write and explore poetry 🙂
Love this, a teenager at eleven is exactly that.
thank you bjorn! and she is exactly that – a teenager at eleven!!
Nice poem to celebrate your daughter's birthday. I like the ending. That's what life is about.
thank you! 🙂
I liked how those two palm trees looked like the number eleven. Is she climbing some straw structure or plant in the first picture?
Frank, that was a tall haystack in a cousin's farm in India on our trip last summer – I am guessing about 20+ feet and she was halfway up the stack when I snapped this photo
An adventure on a birthday, hope she enjoyed it.
this particular adventure was a few months ago and she enjoyed it ;; but she did have other adventures..
Very nice poem and the photo that illustrates it. Happy Birthday to your 11-year old!
thank you for the comments and the wishes
What a wonderful use of the prompt! Thank you for sharing the joy and triumph (as well as the motherly concern). And great photos!
congratulations and indeed time flies… my daughter has tuner 32 in january…. horrible how fast time flies
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those trees also go straight up!
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