Forced Celebration
As they frogmarched their prisoner into the room,
uncountable candles dispelled the gloom.
A pervading odor of sugar and wax
was entrenched in the air around piles and stacks
of brightly wrapped boxes of variable sizes,
yet she was not swayed by potential surprises.
Soothing smiles of friends and the song they were singing
were tangential to thoughts that were wildly zinging
through her mind, for in short, she did not find it nifty
that this was the day that she would turn fifty!!!
Prompts today are frogmarch, variable, soothing, entrench, pervading, candle and tangential. Image by Engin Akyurt on Unsplash.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I can relate to that.
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Yes I’m sure it will be terrible for you when you turn fifty.
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But I never will – ha!
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Fantastically written!
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Thanks, Nicole.
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It certainly does smart, Judy. Very clever.
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Thanks, Tracy..
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And the photo is perfect – stop time now!
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