Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing
Prompt #423 using the word ‘grotto’.
In exactly 17 words, this is my take.
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Meet me tonight for an intimate dinner in the grotto.
I promise an experience you’ll never forget.
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17 Words
*The Sea
This is “Isle of Capri” by Frank Sinatra
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Would love to visit! Beautiful! 💕
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Right there with you, Grace!
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💕🥰💕
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You don’t have to ask me twice!
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Let’s go, Sis. I’m ready!
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Ooh la la On my way… 👠💓 😄
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Bellissima grotta! Any meal would taste heavenly in such a setting. ☺️
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I would hurriedly take up the invitation, Nancy, … I wouldn’t want to miss out on an opportunity like that, it’s so beautiful, Eating in such surroundings, It would add joy to the meal, …💙
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Exactly! This would be the dining experience of a lifetime! Thank you, Penn 💙
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erm ,,. When are we going? It was an invitation wasn’t it?….😂
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🤣
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its a beautiful place but very expensive 💜💜💜
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Good food is worth it, especially since it would likely be a one off for most people. 💙
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Thst true but on Capri we stopped at a cafe and had two coffees and two cokes and that cost the equivalent of £20 and that was about eighteen years ago. … I don’t mind paying for good food but I don’t like price snobbery…. Honestly Sis I was shocked 😲
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Most tourist places are like that, sad to say. I remember being on the top floor of a cathedral in Milan and there were vending machines. To me, that was very inappropriate. Cha ching! 🤑
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yes I agree
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Bliss! I wish I’d visited there when I was in Puglia a couple of years ago!
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A return visit, maybe?
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sounds promising…😋
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You know it! ❤️🔥
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Great! A couple of years ago we made a wonderful trip to Puglia and we had this beautiful restaurant on our to-do List. Didn’t go there – too many great restaurants there. 😎
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For this experience, I would make it a priority.
Thank you, Fred!
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Too late! 😎 A good reason to visit beautiful Puglia again 😀🌷🎶☀️
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Sounds like a plan! 😎
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Indeed, a magnifico ‘Grotto’, Nancy
The Poet’s Grotto
My writer’s studio, is the littered part of my bedroom
A paper tiger’s haven, has become a messy grotto
I am ruefully feeling muddled and befuddled
Pieces of paper and cardboard kites
Scatter the atmosphere like withered autumn leaves
Falling upon my untidy and cluttered archives
Scribbled words are yet to be decoded
Foolscap pages overwritten and eroded
Undefined and unlisted
Out of focus and twisted
Upside down and inside out
Uncategorized and full of self-doubt
My desk’s dreamy picture postcard
Looks like a moonscape’s junkyard
My poetic writing quill has been the mythological ruler
Showing no regard for my bedroom’s demeanour
I am sleeping covered in my hurdy gurdy verses
I cannot penetrate the stack of obscure foreign addresses
It is time to cast out the pretentious cosmic curses
Free myself of all unpublished jabberwocky
And let my imagination create a new poetic hard copy
https://www.youtube.com/embed/LQkwtgREPgc?feature=oembed
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Ah, be still my heart! The marvelous Gary Brooker!
Tell me, dear Ivor …. did you just write this splendid poem? Whether new or old doesn’t really matter; it’s the beauty of the words. I will cherish it. Thank you. 🥰
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It’s fairly old poem which I’ve retitled and rewritten a few times. This version is about 2 years old … and it’s been published somewhere but I can’t remember where 📖 … thank you for very kind words, Nancy
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It’s a beautiful poem! 🥰
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Sounds enticing!
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Doesn’t it?
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😅
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Fresh fish guaranteed daily!
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Great. My husband would love it.
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It certainly is an experience,
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👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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