So… some of you really wanted me to open that box. Refer to The Gift.
The prompt I’m using for today is from dVerse-write a quadrille and include the word “ace.”
A quadrille is a poem with exactly 44 words, not including the title!
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I grabbed the box
And tore it open
Inside was another one, smaller
It must be an omen
I confessed to myself
The boxes are all empty
I knew not what to gift me
My face fell as I contemplated
The sadness I felt
~RuthScribbles~
Ooooo. I like this take!
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😄 thank you!
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Ooh, I went and read the gift. This goes well with it. I did one on the prompt about an empty box. https://mehflowers.wordpress.com/2019/04/07/a-gift-to-regift/
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Thx for sharing!! I really like that!!
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How sad indeed to get an empty box. Thanks for joining in.
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Oh! but yet … the contemplation.
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Yes…. still contemplating.
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🙂
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oh. that feeling. 😦
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Yes! Thx for reading.
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You’re welcome, Ruth!
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Having spent the day with a three-year-old on his birthday, seeing the joy of receiving — anything at all, the poignancy of this quadrille really hit me. I realize that every time I open a present, I am a three-year-old with expectations of magic and mystery. As an adult, I’m looking for the silver lining of this, the gift of the void, the wisdom that we can never be pleased by things…but that three-year-old insists on looking inside the empty box one more puzzling time.
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Yes… I’m formulating the next follow on poem.
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Some moments in life are like that ….
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They sure are!
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I know that feeling. Nice work! 🙂
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Thank you
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Don’t be sad! Fill them with trinkets and give gifts to make others smile. You know what they say about that… 😉
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Just wait for the next poem
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🤗
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Like the person who’s husband gave a little box of chocolates and she had to look excited to get it and the jewellery was hidden in the 2nd layer.. 😉
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Ha ha.
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