Tell me your remembories of childhood. Of sun-diamond dappled, a warm sea hug and welcoming embrace of shore?
Those are not my memories.
Can you not feel the rocking cradle of seaweed, protecting you from rip-tide and summer storm?
I was rocked by the wind in a cradle of tree boughs.
Toes in sand slipping by?
My toes ne’er touched the ground.
Horizon smudged by fog and breakers? Dancing under noon-bright skies; lilting songs of shipwrecks and sirens.
I danced high in a leafy canopy. I sang with the birds. I whispered with the zephyrs. Moon-clad, I howled with wolves.
Diving deep into the kelp gardens, til lungs burned for want of air. Surfacing, hair o’er spreading like halo on the undulating sea. Remember, remember, remember . . .
Eating wolfberries, juice staining chin and fingers blood-red.
No, those are not YOUR memories. They are mine; please return them to me.
for mlmm sunday writing prompt: five by five.
Choices:
Pick a Mythological Creature
Mermaid
Dryad
Cyclops
Dragon
Troll
Pick an Activity
Reading
Singing
Sailing
Dancing
Hiking
Pick a Fruit
Damson Plum
Elderberry
Apricot
Watermelon
Wolfberry (Goji)
Pick a Time of Life
Childhood
Adolescence
Adulthood
Middle Age
Old Age
Pick a Concern
Money and/or Work
Finding Love
The State of the World
Relationship Troubles
Health Status
image: 2 nymphs, JW Waterhouse
May 15, 2019 at 5:48 am
So gorgeous it has a classical and whimsical vibe
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May 15, 2019 at 1:37 am
This is so cute.
And I learned that Goji are Wolfberries!
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May 14, 2019 at 6:20 pm
I’m chuckling at willowdot’s answer – because I echo the sentiments … LOL …
very atmospheric piece here … it rocks and cradles, and soothes and teases …. speaks of the sun-diamond brightness and cool blue shades ….
all in all, memories and scenes to be treasured :)
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May 14, 2019 at 10:29 pm
I started with two stories, then thought, what the hey/hay, I’d combo the two. One story in half the time. (NPR is doing their “all the money in half the time” fund-raising pitch this week.)
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May 16, 2019 at 11:35 am
works well :)
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May 14, 2019 at 6:01 pm
No I want to keep them now 💜
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May 14, 2019 at 10:26 pm
Well, I suppose I just might let you. Smiling and winking.
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May 15, 2019 at 1:51 am
Lol 💜
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