Follow the Leader

Follow the leader …. by Len

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Responding to Reena Saxena’s Exploration Challenge #102. Write poetry or prose based upon the following statement: ” Public figures make us hate their enemies.”
https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2019/08/29/reenas-exploration-challenge-102/

This is my fictional contribution to the above prompt..

It’s a noisy world. So much information screaming at me …..it fries my brain. Should I press the mute button? Retreat and dialogue with my inner self for a saner discourse. Except there is no discourse just confusion, boredom and lack of ideas. My thoughts refuse to percolate unless sparked by a superior being. I’m just a follower and I need a strong leader to show me the way forward.

I found him about twenty years ago. I was watching his biography on CNN. He was so certain in his speech. He knew what he wanted and went for it. Sure there was some scandal. But there’s always people trying to drag the strong…

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Not interesting

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Tentacles

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Colors of life

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Spaces within

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Concealed

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Is that … who?

multiple eyes piercing my tattered existence….. Is that God an alien ship a dictator’s dream or my battered conscience? https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/photo-challenge-279/

Flavors

Sage needs to be added before or during the cooking process to flavour a meat. A person becomes a sage, after life has flavoured his/her thinking process. I don’t know who decided that the flavour matters, not the time of addition or impact. Language hides a lot of humor and pain. It has been created … Continue reading Flavors