Thursday, September 3, 2015

Content: A Six Sentence Story



For Christine, because I killed her in last week's Six Sentence Story:

Breakfast made, lunches packed,
Chickens fed, dishes stacked.

Kids dropped off, errands run,
Groceries bought, laundry done.

Kitchen cleaned and for a bit,
She is now content to s--zzzzzzzzzzzz....



Linking up with Ivy at Uncharted for Six Sentence Stories with the prompt "content."


26 comments:

  1. Oooohhhh. Much better. And spot on!! :)

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  2. Plus, there's a chicken pic. Always good.

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  3. Wait, are those 3 sentences??? But yay for rhymes! Just trying to write 13 haikus + 1 line for my colleague's 40th birthday :-)

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    1. My husband pointed out that I screwed up my punctuation. I need to fix that!

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  4. Wow. A day in the life and it rhymes!

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    1. I can only imagine how many dozens of other things Christine accomplishes in a day!

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  5. Sounds like my day only written prettier... OK, except for the chickens... we don't have any of those, but I think two huge dogs and four cats, counts for the feeding part ;)

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    1. No chickens for me, either. And I left out that she also has pigs, but six sentences AND I'm a lousy poet and this was the best I could do!

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  6. I laughed because I enjoyed this story.

    thank you

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  7. LOOK AT YOU! AND DAISY TOO! I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!

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  8. Totally delightful and so well done! Just the smile I need at the end of a weary workday. I think you've captured Christine's life perfectly! :-)

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    1. I think this is the tip of the iceberg for her but thank you, Josie!

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  9. So perfect!!! I felt like I was there - in Christine's home or at least outside of it!!!

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  10. Nothing is better than a justified break and s-zzzzz!

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  11. I missed last week's stories--I'm going to have to go back and see what you did to Christine! Glad you didn't kill her off this week. :-)

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    1. I'm behind with THIS week's stories. Yes, go see what I did to her last week and you'll see why she deserved this!

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  12. What a pretty chicken? Is or was? Very good use of your six sentences. Love the poetic flow.

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    1. That's my chicken that lives with Ivy! She named it after my great aunt when I told her she had had a pet chicken as a young girl AND her parents let it roost on a kitchen chair at night, with newspapers spread out underneath it (Ivy draws the line at that). Thank you!

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