Author: Reena Saxena

(Photo courtesy of Alexis Ortiz)

The artist looked as if he was plastered against the front of the castle. An intended flattening manufactured to result in equally deliberate consequences. While the purists felt that the splendour of the architecture was being tarnished by such pyrotechnics, the ones calling themselves, ‘the freakish progressives’ delighted in the concept and even coined the term “graffitista” – euphemism for a fashionista turned human graffiti.

Before the “Jumping Graffitista” transformed into an international movement, it’s birth resembled that of an accidental child. An ebullient couple high on both adrenaline and alcohol, while egregiously cavorting in front of the Windsor Castle, broke out into a spontaneous game. Each took the other’s picture just when the subject was jumping. A typical Instagram raw material.

Joanne, an intrepid humanitarian & ecologist while taking her own pictures of the Castle focused accidentally upon a black visage against a white…

Written In Response To:

V.J.’s Weekly Challenge # 59:  Worth Mentioning – What has inspired you lately? A song, an image, a quotation? This week’s challenge is to share something “worth mentioning”.

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #98 – PROMPT WORD:  Perspective – I invite you this week to explore the potential of this word further.

truth worth mentioning

Light shines from darkest places

soul’s adversities

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Perspective —
a prism
where your eye
is the light

your brain waits
for rainbow.

Reena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge.  Reena says:
A favorite theme which reflects in my writing is perspective. I’m totally fascinated with the potential of this – how it creates different realities for each of us, and impacts the world. One wonders what is truth – scientific evidence, what we feel with our senses or a writer’s take which transports us to a different world.  I invite you this week to explore the potential of this word further.

PROMPTWORD
Perspective

My offering is in the form of a septolet poem.