THIS IS PART OF LINDAGHILL’S JUST JOT IT JANUARY
Persnickety
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Painstakingly keeping an eye to detail
Ever searching for perfection
Reaching for the target and not to fail
Struggling with minutiae afraid of rejection.
Never brave enough to break free
It must be done as done can be.
C0vering every base a thousand times
Knowing all the big things go off the rails
Enveloping all around writing perfect rhymes
Tending to the tiny things when all else fails!
Yearning for perfection at everything else’s cost!
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Author: willowdot21
Female, wife, full time mother and Grandmother. I am not as happy go lucky as I used to be but I am still bubbling along on simmer! I have three handsome sons all grown and flown.The youngest married with a beautiful wife and two sons of his own. Back in 2010 I was working, running a home, driving and socializing then bang in a split second all that was gone. I had an accident at home. I broke my back, not for the first time, I had broken it 10 years previously as well. Unfortunately this time I had broken it really badly and it was truly messed up so I had to have two operations. I was told before each operation that the outcome could mean I spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair. Still as some guy once wrote "I am still standing " yes "better than I ever was " I no longer use the walking stick . I had lots of friends before the accident but when things like this happen, you loose most of them. Their lives move on and mine stood still and so they left me behind ...I know that is just the way life is but it hurt and always will. Then I looked around and saw those who were still there for me, these friends are the roses in my garden they need to be tended well. They are the diamonds in the dust. I will of been married 53yrs this comming year. I have found different ways to approach life, use my pain befriend it almost...yer right , well that is what they tell me at the pain clinic ROFLMAO ...... if only I could! I have found an outlet for my fears, frustrations and night terrors . I have started writing poetry if that name can be applied to my writing. I hope I do not come over as a moaning winger. I hope I am past all that. I also hope that you might see how the poetry is moving from very dark through the grey and hopefully in to light.
My back is no longer straight it is C shaped because of the injury and I have lost two and a half inches in height but my Pilates and Core teachers have helped me to stand up as straight and be as strong as possible. Pain and depression are still hanging on my arm but I have weapons to use against them and if I say so myself I cope well.
I have made lots of new friends, real diamonds. I am also very grateful for all the support and help I have encountered here on Wordpress. Hugs and welcome to everyone who visits.
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I thought that was brilliant! Well done 🙂
Thank you so much! I love to do an Acrostic poem!
I am not great at them as I find them pretty difficult. Yours was really good 🙂
I enjoy them, Nonets, Haiku, and Tanka in fact I love all verse! 😉
Yes, I love a lot of it too 🙂
I sometimes find it easier to write in verse than in prose!
Me too! At times 🙂
🙂 well there we go! 🙂
Wow! This is awesome! Love your acrostic. 🙂
Thanks I enjoy doing them!
Thank you so much!
You’re welcome! ☺️ It’s really awesome! ☺️
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Great poem and a learned a few new words besides “persnickety” 🙂
Awesome job!
Thank you so much!!
most welcome!
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Reblogged this on lynz real cooking and commented:
A very good friend, Willow, writer extraordinaire!
Lynz I am so honoured thank you !! 🙂
I forgot to highlight you 😦 so sorry so that is coming soon when I highlight more friends! it was a big blogging blur, so sorry dear friend!
You don’t need to highlight me I am just glad we met !! 🙂
me too! you deserve recognition!
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Thanks again 🙂
most welcome!
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Nothing about this acrostic to get persnickety about! 😀
Well thanks Linda and I did try not to get pernickety about it either! 🙂
Haha! Good for you! 😀
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LOL!
Good one; I bet those folks have their own cookie…. Persnickety Doodles…
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