Tuesday, October 31, 2023

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"We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others."
George Eliot, Middlemarch

Options And Choices
What do birds sing of
If not the arrangement of day
Each a new and gifted legacy
To do what with and leave behind
In yesterday.

When all is stated, narrated, said;
Still, there is no conclusion;
Only options and choices,
To act out and deem the day
Lived
© gillenacox 2023

BLOG HOPPING TODAY WITH
Prompt: to choose a dead novelist or poet, one whom you have recently read or is simply a favorite, and write a poem on a work of theirs.
I read Middlemarch a few monts ago with my bookclub

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12 comments:

  1. brudbergOctober 31, 2023 at 4:02 PM

    I have not read this but I feel like those shoes could be a curse.... have you ever read HC Andersens story The read shoes http://hca.gilead.org.il/red_shoe.html

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    1. brudbergOctober 31, 2023 at 4:51 PM

      This one is indeed a better alternative for a dead writer.... I love that conclusion... such is life.

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    2. Gillena CoxOctober 31, 2023 at 5:22 PM

      Thank you for your appreviation Björn. As soon ad i reslized my faux pas, i edited the post; took the first poem out and put this poem in instead of.
      Thanks for the revisit

      Much💛love

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  2. Gillena CoxOctober 31, 2023 at 4:07 PM

    Happy you dropped by Björn. Thanks for the link. I will go there now

    Much💛love

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  3. DoraOctober 31, 2023 at 4:18 PM

    True love to the rescue! Breaks every spell :) (Finally figured out how to comment here: only with Chrome!) Much love, Gillena.

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  4. Gillena CoxOctober 31, 2023 at 4:34 PM

    Thanks for dropping by Dora.

    Much💛love

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  5. DoraOctober 31, 2023 at 4:46 PM

    Glad you treated us with a second poem on Middlemarch, Gillena! I could hear Dorothea's voice in my head as I read it. Surely this is what she would have written after all the ponderings and dead ends, that one simply "act out and deem the day/Lived." Well done, my friend. 💛

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  6. Gillena CoxOctober 31, 2023 at 5:19 PM

    Thank you for your appreviation Dora

    Much💛love

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  7. GraceOctober 31, 2023 at 9:25 PM

    I have not come across this book. Love the first part of the birds singing of a new day.

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  8. Gillena CoxOctober 31, 2023 at 10:25 PM

    Thank you for your appreviation Grace

    Much💛love

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  9. Kim M. RussellNovember 1, 2023 at 5:07 AM

    I love your Middlemarch tribute, Gillena, and how you’ve condensed the emotions, feelings and message of the book into options and choices. I especially like the thought of birds singing about the arrangement of day and the truth behind ‘act out and deem the day lived’.

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  10. Gillena CoxNovember 1, 2023 at 2:56 PM

    Thank you for your appreviation Kim

    Much💛love

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