Home is a house, is a meal, is a stone
is a cat, is a man, is a fossilized bone.
Home is a lamp, or the look in an eye.
Home is hope and the freedom to cry.
Home is a mother, a poet, a friend.
Home is the banks of a river’s bend.
Home is in books that whisper at night,
in poems and stories, in words that take flight.
Brenda Warren 2012
This piece is for a Trifecta challenge. The challenge was to write between 33 – 333 words using the third definition of the word home.
HOME (noun)
1 a : one’s place of residence : domicileb : house
2 a : the social unit formed by a family living together
3 a : a familiar or usual setting : congenial environment; also :the focus of one’s domestic attention b : HABITAT
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brenda, this is charming – you have captured home so well
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I just love the picture of “home” you share with us here.
I love “Home is a mother, a poet, a friend…” Nice.
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Thanks Mary.
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You captured home — and you did it with rhyme and meter and great flow. Impressive!
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Thank you, Annette, and congrats on your win. It’s nice to see you at Trifecta. 🙂
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This is AWESOME!!! I love it, Brenda. 🙂 Superb rhyme, repetition, and bouncy flow. Fun read … makes me kind of want to dance.
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I’m always up for a good dance (even a lousy one). Thanks!
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Home is anywhere and everywhere and changes in shape according to the person. Wonderful. Thanks for sharing this. We hope to see you back tomorrow for the new challenge.
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This is a perfect description of home.
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Perfect.
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