Author: Reena Saxena

Come! the ocean calls
Beyond that barrier reef
Across those jagged banks
Away from protections long used

For progress lies beyond your lonely peninsula
Enlightenment glistens from over the horizon
And hope drifts in currents unexplored

Come! your future calls
Outside your familiar
Where breakthroughs lie

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Mankind lies on the threshold of harmony with nature.
A few bold steps to take
A legislation away
Beyond our fatal comfort zone
Breakthroughs await

For while we think, time wanes. – 6wordstory

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For

Sue’s write-photo prompt

Reena’s exploration challenge

Shweta’s 6-word-story prompt

I just ran and ran without turning back this time. I could feel the heaviness in the breath and intense pain in the muscle but my gut feeling kept me going. Finally stopped to realise its getting dark. I can feel the heavy cool breeze hitting me. I could hear the surge of waves and tides.

I stopped. Took a deep breath and looked around.

Sigh!! Oooohhoooo. I made this year!

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She was put into a hostel at an early age when she was just five years old by her stepfather after the demise of her mother. Initially, she was happy to get rid of his mistreat and be happy in the hostel but even hostel place was not different than that of her previous life. She was suffocated by the abuse and mistreat of male staff dominance in the hostel. The fear of loneliness, no clue of the…

THIS WEEK’S WORDS come from “In the Fourth of July Parade” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: middle, braids, back, times, grace, swimming, bliss, simple, make, gate, joy, parade

Swimming in the unknown
With grace to fight what’s there
Number of times to err
Simple just to bemoan
Such joy if we are shown
We could make it I swear

Parade of challenges
Don’t go back but face it
Such bliss we’re to admit
Fight one so challenging
Even with damages
Go on and never quit

As we open the gate
So proud and feeling great*

(c) ladyleemanila 2020

* The HexSonnetta, created by Andrea Dietrich, consists of two six-line stanzas and a finishing rhyming couplet with the following set of rules:

Meter: Iambic Trimeter
Rhyme Scheme: a/bb/aa/b c/dd/cc/d ee

For: Reena’s Exploration Challenge #144,  Whirligig 273

suturing smashed souls

with strings spun from heart matter

~ surgical breakthrough

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Mindfills for

FOWC matter

Reena’s exploration challenge – breakthrough

Cee’s FOTD

What will it take to breach the wall?
Allow yourself a diff’rent view?
Consider I’m the same as you?
You must or else we all will fall.

A virus scourge that beats them all
Is out to slay and hack and hew
What will it take to breach the wall?
Allow yourself a diff’rent view?

We must not fall to one so small
Please wear a mask as all must do
Until nineteen’s in our rearview
Or face our specie’s last death squall
What will it take to breach the wall?

Today’s offering is in the form of a rondel, which is A French form consisting of 13 lines: two quatrains and a quintet, rhyming as follows: ABba abAB abbaA. The capital letters are the refrains, or repeats.

Reena Saxena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge.  Reena says:
In this week, I invite you to explore a…

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Trapped in the abyss of void

consumed by darkness

walking on a tightrope

vacillant steps

the fall inevitable.

Timely intervention

oodles of patience

prodding, gentle unmasking

comforting reassurances

demystifying obscurity.

Finally, a visage of hope

monstrous mind slayed

purpose refocused

perseverance paid off

life saved.

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #144 : Breakthrough

Stressful lifestyle is one of the major factors that cause an emotional imbalance in people today, leading to many mental health challenges, depression being one of them. It is extremely important to identify this issue and provide timely intervention and counseling to such patients, in the absence of which it may lead to suicidal tendencies too.