What is the price of gold or silver?
Whatever you are prepared to offer,
but silver is my choice.
What is the price of a stamp?
It depends on the weight
and the meaning of the words.
What is the price of tomorrow?
It is everything
and the value of nothing?
Kim M. Russell, 14th October 2020
My response to Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #41: What’s the Price?
Rommy has given us a tricky prompt this week: she would like us to consider the question “What’s the price?” when plying our pens. She says that the specific wording does not need to appear in the final product, and we should feel free to have a little fun when deciding how to interpret the question.
writing in north norfolk 
Sometimes nothing has the highest value, largest price tag, eh? Well done KR.
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Thanks Ron.
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Some wise aphorisms here!
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Thank you, Rosemary!
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A very interesting concept, well told. I hasn’t thought much about the value of space for quite a while. Rosemary reminded me today that the buskers along the halls of the London Tube have to reserve and pay for their spaces.
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They do and they are strictly monitored.
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Enjoyed your poem and music. If we do not invest in tomorrow we are selling ourselves short
Happy Wednesday
Much💛love
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Thank you, Gillena. Much love to you!
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I love how playfully you dealt with the prompt… and the very serious thoughts behind the set up. It achieves the kind of balance that I adore.
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Thank you, Rommy.
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An easy read that ends with something to think about!
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Thanks Bev!
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Three stanzas, three gems …. silver is my choice too.
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Thank you, Helen.
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“What is the price…
Whatever you are prepared to offer”
I like that. I often think how things are not WORTH what they sell for, it’s just the asking price and what people are willing to pay. Like sometimes I see something auctioned I like and it goes for next to nothing, then the same item is auctioned again, and at that time someone bids up the price to incredible amounts. Or, a house. A house isn’t really WORTH what is asked these days! I am thinking literally of course, which isn’t really your point, just what it reminded me of.
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Thank you for reading and commenting in detail.
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