I’m taking part in the Poetic Asides November Poem A Day Challenge. We can post our poems on the site so I’m not inflicting them on my non-poeting readers. However, I just wrote this one and I’m so pleased with it I wanted to share it with you.
The prompt was ready to start or not ready. A monostich is a one-line poem.
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Monostich For The Selfish Lover
Ready or not, here I come…
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Thinking it would be nice to have some photos to illustrate my poems on my other blog, I’ve been rifling the records. We have so many photographs that I had to take them out of albums and put them into index boxes. I’ve scanned some in for the other blog, but I thought I would share a couple now.
Trying for best-eyes-in-the-back-of-the-head prize
My life as a boy
He's always had better hair than me; but I have a hairier chest
Our favourite activity
If he'd only seen this photo before the wedding, he'd have realised he was right to have doubts...
Ditto for her
I am a little fat. I like food; what can I say? I have dull hair: mousey. I don’t wear much make-up and have no need of a dressing table. If I look like a bag lady, I chose my own clothes. If I look nice, the Hub picked them for me. Despite all this, I am a little vain. This photograph is from 2003. I had to go back that far to find one of me that I liked. But I don’t really care: my husband still thinks I’m beautiful and if he doesn’t, he loves me enough to lie about it. I’m lucky. I have two boys. They never lie to me. Still, you can't have everything.
The Laughing Housewife 
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