Satisfying Reality

This week's prompt from Big Tent Poetry is a Wordle -

I resent the reality

I am the only one left

To buy the milk the eggs the bread

To balance the checkbook to put gas

In the car to weed the flower beds

To to to to no longer two

When I am hungry

When I need to be touched

When it is dark

Or is dangerous

Or I cough into the silence

Due to the dullness which

Just happens to surround me

Don’t bother to even suggest

What happens when there

Is a praise to sing and I do

So solo

Somehow, finally, one night

I looked up to my night companions

Silently winking and nodding

At me, affirming my choices

And I heard them, that night

And felt strange comfort

And stopped resenting the reality

Because usually it feels satisfying

To be responsible to only the

Stars and Me

Comments

[Dina Spice]

Your resentment was heard well...I liked your listing of the day-to-day chores rapidly being fired, and brilliant with seemingly catching your breath - the "To to to to no longer two" line.

I also like that you slowed it down and reassessed your position a bit...

"Silently winking and nodding
At me, affirming my choices"

Great wording there. Did you use all of the words? Perusing again, it seems you have. Show off!

- Dina

[pamela]

Julie
This is a beautiful piece and I love the fact that you went in a full circle here realizing your choices were right!
Pamela

[brenda w]

Julie, Stunning piece. It's very effective when you go from the list of things to do to, to to to to to no longer two.

Like Pamela I like that you went full circle. ~Brenda

[brenda w]

Julie, Stunning piece. It's very effective when you go from the list of things to do to, to to to to to no longer two.

Like Pamela I like that you went full circle. ~Brenda

[Nicole Nicholson]

Very well done, your use of the words in the prompt. The "To to to to no longer two" line was an effective use of sound with those heterographs. I also love the rapid-fire lines, and your honesty within them.

-Nicole

[carolee]

the energy in this is really great. though it ends up being an acceptance, there's an edge to it.

and i love the photo with it!

[Mr. Walker]

I like your take on these words - and the change the narrator goes through in the poem.

[Tilly Bud]

This is a great poem. I love the line:

To to to to no longer two

http://poemsaboutnothinginparticular.blogspot.com/

[Tilly Bud]

Oops! I c+p the url of another blog for my list and forgot to change it.

That last one was from me

http://thelaughinghousewife.wordpress.com

[Deb]

I liked the tone, too, and the word play, realities. "I looked up to my night companions/ Silently winking and nodding" is where I felt the shift -- loved the idea of the stars counseling. Of taking twinkling into new territory.