cans of sardines or aeroplanesI hope I live to tell this tale arms surrendered, my heart still bleedsfor the dreams I once dared to dream they take futures, a secret hope-a place of choice, matter of right I may live at someone's mercy....Will they know what I left behind? Take all the wealth, Take all … Continue reading What I leave behind
Know thy treasure ….by judeitakali
She stands upon a cliff and wonders…
How far?
How long?
How true?
He roams the world and ponders…
For her?
For me?
For us?
“I have followed ambition, I have chased the dream; yet all else I found, I left behind!”
This gold
Stay ye away
Treasure that blinds one so
Whilst thy love dwindles with the tide
Alone
Be when –
my heart be sank
To lose its morning star
Beyond riches, and beyond reach
Priceless
Amour
Flee my cutlass
For need plunders my soul
And greed drives me ever further
Bleeding
Cry not
Lest sea be stained
And ye’ curse haunts me’ step
When stars be gone, and I be lost
Hopeless
Beyond
Cliff and mountain
Away from own desires
Dwells one for whom I am Desire
Yonder
This gold
my heart be sank
For need plunders my soul
When stars be gone, and I…
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manifestationof long-held, suppressed desiresshower of blessingsskies conspire - my dreams come trueI wish I'd wished for some more https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2021/08/17/tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-239-ekphrastic-photoprompt/
“But these clouds are clearly foreign, such an exotic clutter against the blue cloth of the sky” “Now you know why,” exclaims the fashion designer as she puts the book aside, “we focus on export markets instead of local ones. Anything that is foreign is treated as exotic, something to be cherished. Indians have grown … Continue reading Understanding markets
Uncluttered Intelligence ……. by Radhika
Sadje’s WDYS prompt #95
Reena’s exploration challenge # 194 : POLYSYNDETON
It is art of creating complex sentences, by using conjunctions instead of commas.
A book filled with simple letters of the alphabet join hands together to take a long haul wrapping up a child’s curiosity and ingenuity into a make-believe world of fiction and fantasy conjuring up creative abilities and stories beyond the imagination of the stereotyped conditioned adult.
words that dancecreate fancy shapes,then stories,adventures-Imaginationtakes childhood to unseen worlds https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2021/08/16/what-do-you-see-95-august-16th-2021/
The challenge is write a polysyndeton which is a complex sentence with conjunctions used instead of commas. What you read or hear below is a kind of conversation or stage play with each character speaking one complex sentence. I once expected you to be more like me and understand what I need but I should … Continue reading POLYSYNDETON
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ByNZILGsCZQ?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent Somebody once commented on a post of mine about Rituals, saying “Too much freedom is scary.” The sentence has stuck with me ever since.Most of us need a structure to exist in, to belong, to excel in. Yet, we complain about a lack of freedom, when the structure we exist in does not match … Continue reading Freedom — SacredCircleforWomen
The Passport …..by okachiko
A hundred word story for you today:
The Passport
I stood stoic as the officer flipped through the pages, every one marked except the last. He inked the rubber on an indigo-colored pad, looked up at my civvies and grown-out hair and asked, “Where did you go on vacation?” I told him the places I’d been over the last decade– Beirut, Kabul, Ukraine, Krakow. His face grew serious, and he stamped the passport. When he looked up again, a smile had bloomed on his face, and he said, sincerely, “Welcome home.”
Also for Reena’s prompt #194 on Polysyndeton, the practice of using conjunctions rather than commas, though limited in this piece. https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2021/08/12/reenas-xploration-challenge-194/
She's glowing once again - finding herselfIt was a battle tough and longkilling demons for a songboth inside and outside It was a battle tough and longidentifying what ails the soulboth inside and outsideinvading silent spaces she coveted identifying what ails the soulnever letting her feel wholeinvading luminescencewith shadows of the dark never letting her … Continue reading Glowing
