W3
This week’s W3 challenge is to write a poem personifying an abstract noun. I have chosen anxiety. You can join in here: https://skepticskaddish.com/2026/11/11/w3-prompt-237-weave-written-weekly/
No Rest
“I’m not letting you rest?” cried Anxiety
Thoughts moving from simmer to boil
Each interaction and conversation slowly unravelling
Triumph gradually beginning to spoil
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And a stray worry comes to the surface
Leading to a fresh bout of fear
Reaching right down into the stomach
Causing IBS its ugly head to rear
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No-one can counsel Anxiety
Curb the tide of rampaging reflection
The words of psychologists falling on deaf ears
As Anxiety seeks unattainable perfection
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But only a handful of prescription tablets
Could help silence the raging voices
Sometimes aided by swigs from a bottle
As anguish undermines all other choices
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In deep shadows at the back of a closet
Stand desperate measures in a row
Codeine, morphine, and some others
On standby to stop the tumultuous flow
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Waiting – menacing dressed as entircing
Anxiety hears their siren call
Desperation overcoming all sensibility
Crashing on towards certain downfall
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Caught in an endless cycle
Anxiety takes a breathe, ratchets up a measure
“I will not be defeated,” it declares
Chest tightening a symptom of displeasure
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Nothing could detract from Anxiety’s reign
It’s tyranny total and complete
Victim shaking, breathlessly hyperventilating
No conceivable path to defeat
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Pills and booze but devoted servants
Who pay homage to it’s every whim
Aiding and abetting Anxiety’s treacherous rule
Chances of escape very slim
The Flower Hour
Terri hosts a weekly The Flower Hour challenge which you can join in here: https://secondwindleisure.com/2026/11/10/the-flower-hour-56-fun-with-sunflowers/
Last week I shared orange pincushions from my Cape Town trip. This week I’m sharing the yellow pincushions which we saw growing in abundance along the cliffs as well as at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens.
Thursday Doors
For Dan’s Thursday Doors I am sharing some doors from The Waterfront in Cape Town. The doors are a side effect of the art but they still count – grin!
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Multicoloured rhino sculpture in front of a door in the Cape Town Waterfront 
Fantasy animal sculptures framing a door into a shop at the Cape Town Waterfront. 
Ethnic artworks outside a lovely white door in the Cape Town Waterfront 
Statue of a woman and two children outside the door to the art gallery at the Cape Town Waterfront 
Clock Tower at the Waterfront
It must be horrible to have that level of anxiety.
Beautiful flowers, Robbie! The multi-colored–like a patchwork quilt rhino is delightful!
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Anxiety is such a malicious oppressor …. and it reads your mind…!
Love the yellow pincushions and the Waterfront pictures, Cape Town is somewhere I have always wished to visit….💞
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Anxiety is an awful thing. The women in my family tend to suffer from it, some more so than others. Unfortunately, my daughter has inherited it.
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I love the statues outside the African Trading Port. What a fun poetry prompt. You did a good job with “anxiety.”
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