Fifty words before breakfast

I found a writing challenge while scrolling through Facebook as I enjoyed my coffee this morning.

“50 Precious Words” is the theme.

The contest is inspired by Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham, which has over 700 words, but only 50 unique words.

So, children’s book author Vivian Kirkfield is encouraging us to put our thinking caps on and to keep the ink limited.

Even though my poem has 50 words in it (for those who know me both as writer and friend know that I would push it to the limit), it has a lot of back story.

It’s a reflection of my awareness that as I’ve segued into my role as Claire’s Day Founder versus Claire’s Day organizer, it’s time to keep working on my dream.

It is my goal to write something significant every day. It might be 50 words, or 1000, but I’m writing every day.

And, that at some point, should I be blessed with grandchildren, that I will have many books that “Nana” has written to share with them.

It is my hope to complete a manuscript a year, in the hopes that I’m published once a year.

Lofty? Perhaps. Impossible, absolutely not.

As the Queen in Alice in Wonderland so famously offered, “Why sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

In my case, fifty words before breakfast.

Enjoy my entry!

Nana’s Story

by Julie K. Rubini

We cuddle together, book opened wide.

It’s my favorite, because of what is inside.

Dragons,

Castles,

A beautiful queen.

Knights,

Bad guys,

and everything in-between.

But, the best part is at the end,

on the book flap,

where there is a picture

of Nana, with me,

sitting in her lap.