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Fingers of all colors massage both sides of the bridge on your nose while rainbow colors blend all over your face.  I have not met you yet, but I feel like I can understand your emotions just by looking into your eyes.  There are many benefits to keeping your eyes clean, as when they get dirty, they can be very unsightly, affecting your vision and how you appear to others.  It is not a problem for me, but I thought I should mention that you have Heterochromia, where your right iris is blue and your left iris is green.  I imagine that nobody will ever be singing that Van Morrison song ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ to you.  I spy in your eye a man scratching his head while looking out a window, which is really crazy, but maybe I am just looking through your eyes.  I have read that humans appear to intuitively form…

8th March

International women’s day

I celebrate

Myself

And all of the strong females around me

We are warriors

We are survivors

Full of determination

Our strength shines brightly

In everything we do

Being strong

Is what us women do best

I celebrate on this day

Alongside all women

All over the world.

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #270 – Reena Saxena (wordpress.com)

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” —Pele, Brazilian soccer player.

most of us agree that talent matters. i do. but many experts believe the idea that hard work outweighs talent every time. hard work must be the common factor for anyone seeking success, regardless of talent. no amount of talent can supersede hard work. if you have a natural ability, don’t expect it to automatically generate success. it won’t.

physical copies of my 8th book, “I Am In Itself Poetry In The Dark,” released on short notice for Amazon’s kdp book publishing competition last October 2022, are now in Manila, Philippines.

i am genuinely grateful to all my readers and followers in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Japan, Pakistan and India for quickly buying this book on such…

Written in response to https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2023/03/02/reenas-xploration-challenge

Another way, having to live in a world where the colour bleached slowly in front of my eyes. One day, having beauty in glorious hues, the next. Every day different. Patches of grey, like little flies I couldn’t get rid of. The next, larger, my peripheral vision without substance.

It was like newspaper being turned into paper Mache. Pulled into a ball so tight, I couldn’t unravel the sense of it. Now, in the middle of the woodlands, all that was left was the sounds of the woodland.

Another day, I knelt down, the dry leaves crumbling though my fingers.

I called his name. ‘Merlin!, here boy.’

Without hesitation my guide dog was by my side. He deserved his freedom, because he always gave me mine. I could continue being a reporter, able to go into dangerous situations, without fear of reprisal. Trust, in those…

Time to celebrate our colourful lives

Proud of us every hour ourselves or wives

Stand up! Stand up! Three cheers for us

What we’ve achieved here is a plus

Issues in different culture addressing

Stand up and own our freedom and blessing

The time has changed and we’ve made that happen

Realise and believe our hands clappin’

Well done! Well done! For there is hope

First and foremost we can all cope

Celebrate with a bottle of Chablis

Well done and all the best to you and me*

(c) ladyleemanila 2023

*The Staccato

For: https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2023/03/02/reenas-xploration-challenge-270/, https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2023/02/11/wordle-592/

P.C :- Jason Tuinstra; Unsplash

pepper it with a pinch of salt,
a bit more, too much for comfort,
a bit less, too little for taste,
how am i to know, a constant refrain,
you better do, like dagger’s pointed at you!

Poetry form :- Gogyohka (“Gogyohka usually contains five lines, but could have four or six lines. It’s up to the poet. Each line should comprise one phrase with a line-break after each phrase or breath. Gogyohka has no restraints on the number of words or syllables used”. From Colleen’s Poetry Cheat Sheet)

Note :- The above poem may seem like a cookery lesson, but it isn’t so. Often we end up saying too much or too little, without any care of how the other person’s feelings. And our escape route would be, “How am I to know?”, but that isn’t always so.

Acknowledgements :- Thank you Reena Saxena for…

It was an endless and delightful path. When she met him, the path became even more pleasant.

From then till now, shades of purple are spreading across the path adding to their love.

an idyllic path
in the dream of fantasy
she to fairyland

the
form of
contemptuous
fun is sarcasm
Itself

the powerful curse
newspaper got burnt in hand
an experiment

Copyright ©️ 2023 Jane Aguiar

Pic credit: Manjusha Chembil

Written in response to:

moonwashed-weekly-prompt-131-2-21-2023-idyllic by Eugenia

w3-prompt-43-weave-written-weekly by David

reenas-xploration-challenge-269 by Reena

what-do-you-see-174 by Sadje

Thank you for reading!

Stay Blessed Always! 💞

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #269

PROMPT # 269- SARCASM


His wit and humor he was proud of
He ridiculed his friends to show off
Together they did join
Paid back in the same coin
He learned the lesson and just backed off