Indira’s take on Exploration Challenge #175
PROMPT #174
No hurry
No curry
No worry
The Wise man said
No curry
No hurry
I could comply
But
No worry
Not in my hands, as
Life was ready with
It’s googlies
And
I never learned
How to play
With age came
Experience
I learned
Problems will be there
But
I’s your attitude
What counts
So
Stopped reacting
And
Learned to
Respond
With patience and
Care
Life
Still throws googlies
But
As it goes
‘One who keeps cool wins in the end.’
Building dreams ..... by Jude Itakali
Keeping Ted Alive – an outstanding piece of fiction by Neil Macdonald
Ted didn’t know he was lost. And perhaps he wasn’t, at least not lost to himself, wandering with an impish grin through the woods. But he was lost to me. And the panic was mine.
Ted remained calm. He didn’t know we quartered the forest looking for him.
One day soon, he won’t realise he’s Ted. But I will. And, together, we’ll keep Ted alive. We’ll fill the mailboxes of his mind, so long as he still owns the keys.
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Friday fictioneers is a weekly challenge set by Rochelle Wisoff Fieldsto write a 100-word story in response to a photo prompt. You can find other stories here
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Oppression’s Child ……. by VJ Knutson
This outer toughness
just conditioning
a baby alligator
that’s me
Raised in a swamp
Eat or be eaten!
family mantra, and
Deal with it!
I know it’s a lot
to take in
see the disbelief
in civilized eyes
Resistance to oppression
begets deeper wounds
Fear taught me well
Survival, they say, of the fittest.
(For Reena’s Xploration challenge: featured image is prompt.)
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