Count your blessings

CHANGE THE CONVERSATION WITH YOURSELF We are facing a 50% salary cut for the next three months. My job is still intact. Opportunities in my business look hazy. Did I really like it in the first place, or was I doing it only to earn money? This could be the right time to reskill and … Continue reading Count your blessings

On the shelf

stark, shrivelled beauty lives in fear of being crushed, sucked out of fragrance yet, only a rose is entitled to be rose designer bottles wrapped in fancy packaging look on wistfully - on shelves https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/07/14/photo-challenge-323/

Age-ing in style

I decide to walk it to the neighbourhood store to buy a few grocery items, which I had run out on. I had no clue, I would feel so inadequate and clumsy in my jeans and sweater and barely-there makeup. The sight which greets me on a Saturday morning is all the senior citizens in … Continue reading Age-ing in style

Best from Waste

Contactless deliveries are in place. The delivery boy calls for the OTP, and leaves the parcel at the doorstep. I exercise care to leave the parcel in the sun for a few hours, carefully discard the packaging and carry only the contents inside - to be washed and disinfected again. Just that happiness isn’t as … Continue reading Best from Waste

Awakening

A fleeting moment A glimpse of disapproval veiled in silence stayed with me long after  you’d forgotten all about it… Today I decide to move ahead shaking you and your views out of my system you do not exist for me as much as I do not exist for you https://dversepoets.com/2020/07/14/dverse-poetics-8th-year-anniversary/

Identity

it takes a lifetime to build something  so fragile so mutable and so dependent on another’s view I enjoy Changing it like a cloak Yet, the label fails to contain me Define me Refine me Or make me  What I want to be… Let identity go for a walk While I try to understand life.. … Continue reading Identity

Stardom

“Cut my veins, the blood is blue”… famously said someone  who’d not tasted the hue Into the blues, he dived with gallons of alcohol…. When Fame deserted,  Arrogance took its toll Deep blue sky where he shone once Stardom - a shadow of the hole https://dversepoets.com/2020/07/13/quadrille-107-blue-monday/

The Quest

The Quest …. by Len

lensdailydiary's avatarlensdiary.ca

Responding to Reena’s challenge #143, write based on above image. https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2020/07/09/reenas-exploration-challenge-143/

Professors Morton and Stanley pored over the map, conferring earnestly on the possible whereabouts of Professor Livingstone.

” His last known coordinates were here, in this remote part of the jungle” intoned Stanley pointing with emphasis at the map. ” We need to find him before the government realizes he is no longer present at the university and cancel the grant money”.

Morton concurred ” $50 million in government research grants certainly adds prestige to the university. Despite Livingstone’s unique and theatrical flare for controversial behavior we need him”.

Morton continued ” The man is absolutely beyond belief. I recall the time I was holding forth in the staff room, pleased at receiving my 25th thousand Twitter follower. Livingstone had the audacity to chirp in with a fatuous remark concerning a celebrities dog shitting on the bed receiving 1.2…

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What do you see # 38 – 13 July 2020

What do You See …. by Sadje

Sadje's avatarKeep it alive

Welcome back to another prompt.

Rules;

You can write a post on your blog and create a pingback to link to the original post.

Write an original story, poem or a caption.

I will try to reblog your response on my blog.

There is no limit to words or format but keep it family-friendly.

I will do a round-up next Sunday before the next Prompt is posted.

Please tag your responses with #Whatdoyousee

Or

#WDYS

Does this image inspires you to write something?

Image credit- Stefan Keller- Pixabay

( For visually challenged reader, the image shows an old bearded man standing on a stone staircase that is leading to a tower. In the background you can see mountains enshrouded in clouds)

Waiting eagerly for your responses.

Thanking you all for joining this prompt.

#Keepitalive

#Whatdoyousee

#WDYS

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