At the dVerse pub they are delving into the fantasy of fictional characters coming to life, and of finding ourselves somewhere else while at Red Wolf Poems, it’s some-when else.
My mind wandered………..
Time Travel
Where am I?
Everyone says it when
consciousness returns,
but where is here?
The Tower of London of course, dear.
I’m still confused.
A whiff of roses in December?
No, dear, it’s September.
Which year?
Fifteen seventy-three.
Oh dear.
I must still be dreaming.
What happened in
Fifteen seventy-three?
And what will happen to me?
Elizabeth, you say? Oh her,
the other one, the Virgin Queen.
Well, that’s no fun, and besides,
she had folk beheaded on a whim.
Please can I go back to twenty-o-three?
At least I would be
a few years younger.
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A fun piece, Viv.
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Funny ! Nice.
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I would certainly like to see what the other Elizabeth was like. She seems to have been such a formidable person. Yet I think I would not like to live ‘there’ permanently. Today suits me fine. Great take on the prompt, viv!
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Pragmatic as always!
Speaking of time travel, I’m reading the ‘Outlander’ series of books by Diana Gabaldon, where a woman goes back from 1945 to 1743. I can’t get through them fast enough. When I’ve finished, I will wish I could time travel back to a time when I hadn’t read them, so I could start again 🙂
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I have them all, and re-read them from time to time. They are terrific.
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I can’t believe you never told me about them! They’ve been out since 1991.
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Sorry. I bought them as they came out.
On TV the other day, they gave a recipe that made me think of you: you dunk Maltesers in a tot of whisky, and when the glass is full of Maltesers, you drink/eat them.
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I think I’m in love. 🙂
Did you know they’ve made a series of Outlander…? Just sayin’…
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I think to see it (film? TV?) would spoil the pictures.
Have you read the series that started with The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel. I think you’d love them (more akin to Hunger Games, than Outlander)
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Read the first one many years ago but didn’t enjoy it.
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They say that we would not survive in the past, because our immune systems could not tolerate the non-hygienic environments; but hey, dreaming we are safe, even though we might believe for a moment while dreaming that we’re not. My poem dealt with dreaming as well; cool.
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ouch… good ole days? noooooo… ha.. 2003, let’s see, I was 12; that was a pretty good age for me. Take me back!
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That makes you 23, which would be a VERY good age for me!
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Cute… like the bit of rhythm… why do we always think everything was good in the Good Old Days
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the idea of time travel intrigues…and yet you can only be here, now …so if you are there, you are still here, now. Intriguing!
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Well, it might be fun to be back in the 1500’s for a short time, but I do think that it would not take too long to miss the modern conveniences! And I wouldn’t even want to return to 2003 at the moment…..as I know now what all I would have to live through to get to the present time. Maybe there is a good reason for there not being time travel. Smiles.
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1573 – that would be an interesting time to go back to…even though a dangerous time as well.. how cool would it be if we really could do time travel and how alive history would be suddenly…
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Nice response to a tempting prompt, V. Salute!
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Was 2003 a good year for you, Viv? >
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I can’t remember! It was certainly pre-lots of health problems.
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Not a healthy place to be.. hope you came back safe.. great way of combining prompts 🙂
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