This week’s word is quixotic
Meaning:-extremely idealistic
-unrealistic and impractical.
He built castles in the sky,
Because his head was always in the clouds.
His desire for far off grandeur
Belied the truth behind the man.
Too big for his boots I heard them say
Lets cut him down a notch or two,
But even his detractors had to confess
His quixotic notions were but magic potions.
For who but the defiantly brilliant
Would propose we build a staircase
One with solid foundation
To climb into the heavens,
To part the clouds and dance with the stars
Just to prove there was life
On distant planets
And that time was merely relative.
He disappeared beyond the clouds
‘He’ll suffocate,’ I heard a woman say
‘No I’m sure he’s figured that one out,’
Replied a mother to her son.
But the stairs crumbled
The steps came thundering down
And he among the ruins
Looked at all his rescuers
His eyes wide with revelation
And announced to one and all
‘I have a plan, a cunning plan
Its quixotic and exotic.’
Written for: http://heenarathorep.com/2015/05/23/word-of-the-week-wow-19/
Morpethroad 
Loved the spirit of the Quixote, even in the end , he has an exotic plan ! 😀
Hi Ady…thanks for your lovely comment….enjoy your weekend…
Thank you and same to you 😀
Love the tenacity of dreamers. They never give up, and when the staircase crumbles, so what? who cares? They are already on to the next plan. Loved this, Michael.
Thanks Mandy for your comment, some people just never give in….
Stairway to heaven.
I think he’d like to think so…..
A lovely way to illustrate the word quixotic, Michael. His head will remain up there in the clouds forever, as is the way with idealistic, dreamy people. The last two lines are excellent.
Thank you Millie, I did steal a little of Baldrick though….
A very good person to steal to illustrate this word! 🙂
I LOVE this–the poem, and the word, and of course Don Quixote himself.
Thank you so much Dell and thank you for following my blog, drop by anytime, you never know there might be a BBQ simmering away….
You’re welcome–thanks for being so friendly (and talking “food”!).
I’m Australian, we live food….lol
Oh, I didn’t know that about the Aussies! You also have some fine bull riders–Ben Jones is my very fave Australian in the PBR.
Well I could say we are very good with a lot of bull…..
Ha ha ha, you joker!
Fun .. like how you worked this poem and of course you hit the target right in the bull’s eye!!Olè!
Thank you Georgia this was a fun write an you are so kind.
Don’t mention it … I love your writing.
One of my favorite words. Well done with it.
Beautiful words and it compliments WOW perfectly!
Loved the last two lines 🙂
Thanks for participating in WOW! I’m really glad that you did 🙂
Thank you Heena, I have since discovered I may not have been doing this prompt the way you intended. So this week I shall rethink my approach or if not do what I have been doing.
I’m more than happy to accept that your interpretation is so much more fun than normally posting just the word and it’s meaning. Frankly, I was thinking of staring to post a small piece of writing along with my WOW post as well (but as a separate post.) That’ll make it more creative and fun. 🙂
I really like your approach, so please continue this way if you want to. And if you want to do these posts for a word of your choice, then also it’ll be fine… The basic idea is sharing new words and helping others providing a good idea about it. Or just simply using the word to write up a piece of fiction (or even non-fiction.) We are writers and know how important words really are, so the idea is to celebrate and spread the importance of ‘words’ 😀
I hope I’ve cleared that my WOW is open to anyone’s interpretation and not just a simple format to follow 🙂
If you have any further doubts then please feel free to ask me… 🙂