Oh, tinsel tailor,
with your shop
full of hybrid silver
and paper snow.
Why plant trees
of plastic
with steel roots
that never grow
and top them
with stars
that never
see the sky?
Why?
Is the truth
not as beautiful
as the lie?
At DVerse this week, the prompt is to write a quadrille around the word Tinsel.
Photo by Алсу Вершинина on Unsplash
Seamus O'Shaughnessy, Jr. 
The lie is often more comfortable than the truth.
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Indeed!
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Tinsel your words, and people believe you.
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Edit your words, and people won’t!
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You’ve nailed the superficiality we often see this time of year
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Thank you!
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So poignant and cutting, Seamus.
❤
David
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Thank you for reading! ❤
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Well-said.
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Such a unique analogy and approach to the prompt. Thanks for joining in. 🙂
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Of course! I love these prompts!!
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I like this take on this prompt. NIcely done quadrille.
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Very introspective. The fake icicles are only a part of the tree’s sham. I really enjoyed this one.
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Thank you, glad you liked it!
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I most definitely did.
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We do seem to do our utmost to hide the beauty of the truth that is ours at Christmastime with the sham decorations of tinsel and plastic.
Pax,
Dora
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Indeed! I always thought it was funny that we cut down trees to build a house to put up a fake tree for Christmas! Weird world we live in!
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Well done. The line “top them with stars that never see the sky” is my favorite.
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