In 55 words 25 Gifts in 25 years, no charge, unreturnable.

Winking

Wading waterfalls

Laughing

Tenderly leaning
Listening to our days
Cooking side by side
Serving our family
Tasting your omelets

Puppies and kittens

Sewing Halloween costumes -
   character paired!
Sci-fi fascination
Skiing faster speeds

Sharing Pachelbel

Reviewing the Renaissance
Exploring space

Opening a gift –

   handmade!
Awakening naked
Touching pleasure

Electric currents

Gently

Creating

Offering

Admiring

(no refunds if thrown away or broken.......even if sorely missed?)

Go to the mountain. Friday 55 non-fiction

Breathless, each stair,


the vision’s so clear.



Painful ascent wracks ribcage,

setting pace, atmosphere engaged.



Alpine carpets off-trail:

buckwheat, sage inhaled.



Waterfalls’ silver-orb strands

streaming through hands.



Ripple-mirrored lakes'

moonlit fish-wakes.

River’s rush

conjures sleeper’s hush.



Reawaken with a gusting slap

against the tent-fly flap.



Come to the mountain for air,

to breathe, to care.

55 Flash Fiction Friday

What’s in a number?

Guess, if you wonder:

Sleep retrieves
unrealized dreams.

Wear longer sleeves,

looser seams.

Don sunscreens
with firming creams.

Closer friends

form quicker mends,

communing first

for less outbursts.

Quench deeper thirsts.

Eat dessert first.

In 55 hours,

I'm 55 minus five.

If you can read this,

be glad we’re alive.

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55 flash fiction (or poetry) Friday Challenge, in exactly 55 words and let G-Man know: http://g-man-mrknowitall.blogspot.com/
photo from Santa Monica, CA, my uncle, Mr. Universe.  My dad photographer.  Guy on left, unknown.