Author: Reena Saxena

Come into my parlor, make yourself comfortable, sit with me while I spin you a tale of two lost souls.

Silvie, sipping her Summer wine, brooding on life’s injustices.

Freddie, buzzing around, frantically searching for an elusive goal.

Silvie, quietly scheming, La Revolution.

Freddie, unable to relax, craving excitement.

Silvie, scurrying forth in search of a victim.

Freddie, roaming the city streets, zooming in on Silvie.

Silvie, relaxed, pondering the ‘Rise Up’ sign attached to a lamp post.

Freddie, rushing to make contact.

Silvie, waiting, calculating.

Freddie, buzzing, full of eager anticipation.

Sylvie, slyly enticing, offering forbidden fruit.

Freddie, besotted, eager, accepting.

Sylvie, offering a brick, and call to action.

Freddie, adrenaline pumping, accepting her token.

Sylvie and Freddie, turning the corner into an explosive chemical reaction.

The mob, all colours,shapes,sizes,egos pressed into a maelstrom of seething fury.

Chaos, hysterical laughter, broken windows, trampling…

Over the years,

The jars of mind,

Accumulates different things,

Knowingly or unknowingly,

Some that it sees,

Some that it likes,

Some that it fears,

Some that it hears,

What is it to unload some of it,

Once in a while,

Will we ever know?

If only we try,

Unlearning to learn.

52words.

Acknowledgements :- In response to Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 141 . For rules please refer here. Thank you Ma’am for running the challenge. Thank you all for stopping by and reading.

We live in a dimensionless age
where creation can spread itself
across the eye, oranges can impose,
particulates can sway, a dream
upheld in an unseen splotch.
But no mind comes of it.
Something stands there, fixed
to itself, as hues battle and chew
themselves, holes blossom,
spewing some violet innards
until darkness shapes.
A small circle, growing, reaching
with its impetuous hand,
fingering for a new glow
but the darkness whimpers
and closes out this dimension,
receiving and receding.

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Written in response to Reena’s Exploration Challenge #141. Basically the challenge was to watch this cool video and then write whatever came to mind afterwards.

microfication
magnification
the lens twists
eyes shift
flame passion igniting
combustion
consumption
heart shifts to calm
water smoke
dark eclipses light
light dissipates
into the milk
of creation

Reena Saxena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge.  Reena says:
Spend 6 minutes on watching this video

https://aeon.co/videos/as-above-so-below-an-artist-finds-the-cosmos-in-a-microscopic-chemical-reaction

After that, just write whatever comes to mind in free flow. Let some time elapse in between, if you so desire.

We use more of strategic and lateral thinking when the thought process is fettered by a theme. True creativity emerges when it is not confined.

Psychedelic lights on the dance floor of the mind, makes moods swing from ‘angry’ to ‘dissatisfied’ to ‘joyful’ to ‘ grateful calm’ as realization dawns.

via Reena’s Exploration Challenge #141 — Reena Saxena

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