The words for this week's ten word challenge were: cranberry sauce, amber, laundry list, coffin, morning glory, shalom, mystery, sparrow hawk, pumpernickle, stained glass And for the Mini Challenge: margarita, gum wrapper, spring fever, Darfur, lace
Living in Darfur as a reporter for the last few months, my spring fever upon returning home was palpable. The morning glory in my garden, pumpernickel bread on my lace placemats, cranberry sauce with my turkey sandwich with an icy margarita on the side. Darfur felt like a gum wrapper carelessly tossed out the window, such a mystery to uniting a region and even the laundry list of celebs unable to stop the nails in so many coffins. We wait for Darfur to rise into the amber sky like a sparrow hawk, whispering “shalom” and hoping to go back to our stained glass houses sooner than later.
6 comments:
you provoked so many different emotions in one paragraph. that's amazing.
Darfur felt like a gum wrapper tossed carlessly out the window - what a wonderful sentence.
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OH I loved that. So many great visuals and emotions. Great job!
Excellent! Very vivid.
Well done and a very apt description of Darfur.
Rich
Extraordinary as always. I love how you express so much depth and range with so few words. Splendid!
Such a picture you painted in a short paragraph and such a clever use of the words. :)
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