Laura is hosting at D'Verse Poets tonight and has asked us to consider when less is more and prompted us with using one or more of the following: ageless ~ boundless ~ breathless ~ careless ~ cloudless ~ colourless ~ faceless ~ fearless ~ feckless ~ flawless ~ formless ~ harmless ~ heedless ~ helpless ~ homeless ~ listless ~ needless ~ restless ~ rootless ~ senseless ~ tasteless ~ weightless ~ windowless ~ wordless
I think you have described “Black Friday” to perfection. The senseless rush to spend, spend, spend followed on 12/26 by return, return, return. The true spirit of Christmas is so often lost, and the homeless are still homeless and the hungry are still hungry. Sad comment on much of modern society. Evocative write!
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Christine Bolton
December 5, 2019 at 10:26 am
Thank you Beverly. Exactly! Thank you for seeing where I was going with this poem. 🙂💕
Ugh, you’ve given me the horrors. I hate that push and shove of mindless shopping and the exchange of meaningless bits of crap. You capture it really well, and use all those “less” words beautifully. I stalk the shops at Christmas muttering “mathoms”. And yet I love Christmas, and I love giving.
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Christine Bolton
December 4, 2019 at 8:31 am
Sorry for the reminder Sarah but I’m happy you liked it 🙂💕
You make the shopping sound so much not what is good for the soul
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Christine Bolton
December 3, 2019 at 11:31 pm
Christmas shopping can be a chore for some, that’s all. Perhaps less emphasis on the shopping and more on the giving was my point. I was following the prompt. 🙂
And every year we still repeat it… shopping is a drug.
Isn’t that the truth! 😏
Sums up Xmas shopping.
Yes it does! 😦
Good description: “Senseless shopping
Gifts of nonsense”
Thank you so much Frank 🙂
The message on the balloon would go well on a t-shirt, too.
Yes, they probably did! 🙂
Shopping for festivals has certainly lost its charm! You portrayed the push and pull so well. 🙂💞
Thank you Punam my dear! ❤️🙂
My pleasure. 🙂
I think you have described “Black Friday” to perfection. The senseless rush to spend, spend, spend followed on 12/26 by return, return, return. The true spirit of Christmas is so often lost, and the homeless are still homeless and the hungry are still hungry. Sad comment on much of modern society. Evocative write!
Thank you Beverly. Exactly! Thank you for seeing where I was going with this poem. 🙂💕
Dang! Christine, this is one hell of message! Wonderfully and powerfully written. Plus all those prompts? Wow, this is good!
Thank you Beckie! I get a little cynical about the shopping part. It’s lost all of its charm 😊😥
You welcome, Christine. Shopping lost it charm a long time ago for me too. 😝😓
Ugh, you’ve given me the horrors. I hate that push and shove of mindless shopping and the exchange of meaningless bits of crap. You capture it really well, and use all those “less” words beautifully. I stalk the shops at Christmas muttering “mathoms”. And yet I love Christmas, and I love giving.
Sorry for the reminder Sarah but I’m happy you liked it 🙂💕
Things certainly are topsy turvy with the giving, and you captured that feeling very well in your poem.
Thanks Lisa. I just think many lose sight about what is important as they succumb to the pressure of commercialism 😑
The gift of giving
is good for the soul
It’s what it’s all about
Amen to this!
Thanks Dwight. I’m happy you agree 🙂
You make the shopping sound so much not what is good for the soul
Christmas shopping can be a chore for some, that’s all. Perhaps less emphasis on the shopping and more on the giving was my point. I was following the prompt. 🙂