1865 - Luxurious

 

 Image: ChatGPT but with a little human intervention

The Sunday Whirl presented these eleven words for us to use in a creative writing piece.  

wonderland bound morning ice knees hope cross wheel three cape head 

Poets and Storytellers had the prompt "Luxurious" - I merged the two.

Luxurious

Go with the feeling.

What is luxurious?

It’s a slippery sort of notion.

It is not built on hope

But on quality, on the feeling,

On things bound to please,

But more than "just enough".

It is a step beyond the normal.

But it is also a frame of mind,

Things are luxurious if you think them so.

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Luxury wears a warm, fleecy cape

On a chilly winter morning.

It can be as simple as the pleasure

Of ice in your end of day drink.

It can be looking at a winter wonderland—

From the log fire side of the window.

It can be laying your head

On a freshly washed pillowcase

That someone else has ironed.

It can be having three morning coffees

Where one is normal and two is indulgent.

When your knees ache from a cross-country hike,

Luxury is that long soak in a hot bath.

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But this is where it gets awkward:

If these things are your normal life,

If the wheel of fortune smiled on you

And you live a life of ease,

Then they may not register as a luxury.

Do the ultra-rich experience luxury

If there is no step higher for them?

I this regard, I claim the luxury

Of ignorance.

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