NaPoWriMo -19 Day- 9: Thing- List!

Day 9 : Prompt: Engage in a kind of cross-cultural exercise,  like recording daily observations, court gossip, poems, aphorisms, and musings, including lists with titles like “Things That Have Lost Their Power,” “Adorable Things,” and “Things That Make Your Heart Beat Faster.” Today, write your own Sei Shonagon-style list of “things.” What things? Well, that’s for you to decide!

PC: Borrowed from the internet

Trinkets & Trivia!

I have a little diary of quotes

Of thoughts, feelings and ideas

Not just mine, but others too

The book is in tatters now

The ink has smudged,

The pages are brittle with creases and tears

I have some pebbles, white and color'd

and some bits of tiles and stones

That I picked off from the ground

Carefully stashed in tiny, little pouches

I also have some pictures 
and some zany stickers

I have some trinkets and trivia                            

all saved up from the past

Somedays, I ferret them out

I look at them, touch them

And I see a little girl in ponytails
who had so much laughter in her eyes
and spring in her steps

She has gone into hiding now
Amidst rubble of roles and rules

her lids heavy with worry

And her eyes weary with care

As I gently set them aside again,

The creases on her brow soften

And the crow’s feet crinkle

As a gentle smile

Melts away the laugh lines…