Prompt sentence
It is very hard to write this way, beginning things backward…
–The Torrents of Spring (1926)
ALTERNATE PROSE & POETRY
Who will read my autobiography? It is an excuse I give myself, every time the thought occurs. Reality is different.
it bleeds
Why open wounds?
it’s intense agony
I don’t know where the blood comes from
don’t touch….
I see things from a different perspective today. I know the genesis of many things. But I did not know it at that stage. So which persona do I adopt while writing?
not really me….
How could I be so stupid?
confessions galore….
all those counter-claims they flash
they’ve also grown up meanwhile….
Autumn petals were just buds, with a set of rosy dreams. Maturity was youthful folly. Experience was a bold plan of action. But could I’ve lived without it?
dVerse Poetics – One True Sentence
Creative Experiments and More 
Maybe we shouldn’t heal… after all, a scar can be more painful than bleeding.
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That is yet another perspective. Thank you, Bjorn!
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This is an interesting response to the Hemingway line. For the most part I find writing to be therapeutic … I really enjoyed your poem.
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Writing is therapeutic. Publishing memoirs needs a lot more sensitivity. Thank you, Helen!
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this poem, format wise, felt like 2 conversations, one internal and the other external, and both trying to connect to the other… very hemingway by the way. very mysterious and very well written.
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That’s a huge compliment. Much appreciated!
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Reena, I like that final question. When I read this I think of a painted masterpiece. I don’t think it would be what it is without each individual brushstroke. How can one separate and act in the now without acknowledging every thing that came before.
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I see colors changing, if not the brush strokes.
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🙂
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I find this a very courageous piece https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/entering-mind-my-rapist-exercise-extreme-empathy/
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Thank you for the article. I started to read the article and had to stop. I don’t think it would be difficult at all to put myself in the place of my abusers and exploiters. Actions to do harm come from intricate rationalizations by the perpetrator that make it acceptable to move forward on the impulse. One “disease” is to be so attuned to the rationalizations of those who have harmed us that we become, in a sense, enablers. I don’t care what goes through my rapist’s mind, I just plan on stopping them dead in their tracks if they try to harm me again.
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You are right. Thanks for the value-adding perspective!
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You’re very welcome, Reena ❤
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Nice
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Sometimes writing can open up old wounds, and sometimes it can help heal them. I have to tread carefully around them myself.
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I guess we need to distance ourselves from the memory to some extent, to have an objective view.
Barbara Branden wrote the biography of Ayn Rand, with whom her husband had a relationship. He finally left both for a night club dancer. But I believe it must have been incredibly difficult to maintain objectivity.
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