Sunshine Challenge - Day 2

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Challenge #2

Tunnel of Love
Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.



I love my family and the friends who have become family.

I love writing. I love how difficult it is, and how much I feel like screaming at my keyboard every time I can't put things into words.

I love travelling. I love exploring new places, whether it's finding unexpected similarities in the general outlet of shopping malls world-wide or visiting small tropical islands and getting trapped in a harbour because of thunderstorms.

I love my cats. I miss them desperately - they're being taken care of by my mother back in England, and they're driving her batty (one of them has developed a desperate love of mayonnaise and she now gets terrorised every time she wants to eat a sandwich). I left them behind because of money and quarantine and not knowing how long I'd be out here, and I miss being swiped at and drooled on and purred at. My tattoos also look very weird now that they aren't littered with scratches.




Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like

Please forgive me for writing this at speed. It's about one of my closest friends <3



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You came ashore and shed your skin;
collected glass from between the stones
and carried them with you as your gaze turned
upwards.

You wove your hair with scavenged wool
and placed it on the altar of a broken temple.
We watched the wind carry your prayers over the fields and
upwards.

Now, you always reach for the sky. Selkie no more,
you track cloud formations over the mountains. You
turned sea-glass into butterfly wings, and you soar forever
upwards.

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Lots of great loves! Also, I sympathize with your mom no longer being able to make a sandwich in peace, but your cat being obsessed with mayo made me laugh a lot.

Your poem is lovely! :D