Happy Christmas from me and Santa baby

 

tricks of treats #10- Hallowmas

 

Hallowmas
where the past
catches up with you,
flaunting
and taunting
haunting your every step
scratching at the truth
tooth and claw
until your skin is raw
oozing from each pore
feeding on your flaws
reading every twitch and tell
and using them against you,

pulling out your roots
tearing at your seams
shredding your defences
poisoning your streams,

feel it brush
against your thoughts,
feel it creep
into your sores,
feel it pouring
acid in your wounds,
too late to be saved
from the things you crave,
careful with that dream
in case no one hears you scream,
can you recall a past
that you hoped would last?

© E. Calder

tricks of treats #9

 

© E. Calder

tricks of treats #8

 

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tricks of treats #7

 

© E. Calder

tricks of treats #6

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tricks of treats #5

 

© E. Calder

tricks of treats #4

 

© E. Calder

tricks of treats #3

© E. Calder

tricks of treats #2

 

© E. Calder

tricks of treats #1

 

© E. Calder

Xmascellany #20- the lost snowflake

I found it!
Yay!!
I finally found the lost snowflake, now can I have my cake and eat it?

~x~
 

Xmascellany #18

 Let's dance!

I haven't yet found the lost snowflake but I thought, being Christmas Eve and all it was time for some downtime and guess who obliged? Santa himself! Yes! The actual Santa of course and my oh my what a mover he is. Bet y'all didn't know how fleet-of-foot and strictly come dancing he could be, well, let me tell you, if we can be partners on next years Strictly dance-offs then we're a shoe-in for sure. 

So here's your BUMPER Xmascellany photoblog to ensure you don't miss a dance step. Feel free to dance along step by boogie step. I will be back on the quest tomorrow, as soon as my legs recover.

x~

(dancing in Zebria)

Xmascellany #17

 Well, this lost snowflake won't find itself, and I just know I'm closing in on it. I've found plenty of clues along the way, that is, in between sleeping on benches, drinking gallons of coffee, waiting for trains, making snow angels and snowball bombing snowmen, especially the abominable ones. So, here is more of my Xmascellany adventures on my winter quest.

 

 (random footprints left in SnowGlobe and Sanguinus Hollow)

Xmascellany #16

 Clearly I have nothing better to do than run around the countryside looking for lost snowflakes, after all, what else is there to do in a lockdown. Well, I haven't found it yet but been having fun trying, although some days have been most trying, tiring, I waited all night at one train station and let me tell you it was chilly sleeping on that platform. Later I did find a bauble to doze inside though, which was quite handy really, finding a convenient vacant bauble me-sized, when I need it. Still, I'm now feeling very refreshed and ready for more traipsing and trundling through the snowy snows of snowland. Or mostly just a lot of me just sitting around.

x~

 

(tales of Tinsel Town and Salfina)

Xmascellany #15

 Christmas comes creeping on creepity-feet, in snow-shoes bearing gifts encased in balls of snow which it will throw into the air, high, high up into the air, so many at once, one after the other as quick as a juggler and quicker til they all become clouds that float in the winter's sky until they're too heavy to stay in the sky and down they come to cover the land and the sea and the trees in flakes floating free to land on you nose, on your hand on your toes if you're not wearing shoes to blanket the colours in white to make them all new once again until such time that their time comes again to melt.

x~

 

(found in Andarah, Bloodlines, Death Row Designs, The Forest and Midnight Cove)