General

Dire predictions
the dimple in a grim smile
Is my resistance

like changing seasons
heedless deeds spin fortune’s wheel
a chain reaction

I see with thine eye
Is this the lover’s edict
hybrid creations

In a lawless world
karma keeps a watchful gaze
the peasant toils on

Inhibited soul
you must bloom in their vision
to grow your wisdom

On a dreamer’s whim
pave new ways to withered ends
that you must rebuild

A Senryu series for Colleen’s TankaTuesday. See if you can pick a favourite.
Also for:
Sadje’s whatdoyousee
Caley’s writephoto
Reena’s xploration challenge.

Tall Tales Corner

We named her Aangaz the village clutz Clumsy to a tear Tinkles trailed her tippytap step pots and pans broke in her wake coins and trinkets fell from her pockets the children chortled with laughter but always returned her lost treasures and how she loved them so One…

Do you see humans birthing in laboratories or Earth changing its orbit or aliens attacking us? Well! I don’t, at least in the near future but these are some of Baba Venga’s prediction for 2023. This was done way back and I attribute it to an imaginative mind!

I would draw rainbows from a hazy sky. Creativity knows no bounds. Like an agile magician, poetry and poets stretch their possibilities and see beyond the horizon. A flower floats in the sky and fish, well, can do everything but swim. Everything I do is stitched with its colour, and dutifully taken back.

Without poetry, poets and predictions, living would lose its charm and life would lose its liveliness. Hurray to a world of imagination. Beyond reality!

125 words.

Acknowledgements :- Thank you Reena Saxena for RxC #263 . The prompt is to use Baba Venga’s prediction as a stimulus for imagination…

Welcome back to another Sunday Poser

This week my question is;

What is one advice you wished you can give your younger self?

It all depends on what stage of life my younger self is in. In her childhood days, I’d tell her not to be too concerned with what others thought of her. People are usually too involved with their own lives to give much thought to others around them.

To my teenage self, I’d advise her to not react to her emotions too much. She needs to be more pragmatic and look at life more practically.

To myself as a young mom, I’d tell her to stop fretting about being a perfect mother and to concentrate on being a more understanding and loving mom. Though I think that the kids would still have complaints regarding her style of parenting!

What would you advise your younger self and at…

I have chosen words or situations for this week’s prompt from Baba Vanga’s predictions for 2023.

• Devastating solar storm
• Explosion in a nuclear plant
• Human birth in laboratories
• Alien attacks
• Earth changing its orbit
• Bioweapons

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You tell me that the future can be foretold

That a person can predict, see with unseeing eyes

All that lies ahead, years and decades away

Is the future like a book some can read and see

Or is this clever guesswork, based on current facts

There are things that are possible, but not probable

I haven’t seen any signs of alien invasion except in movies and shows

I do believe that….

If we kept going like we are, we may be the ones responsible for

What might cause a nuclear weapons or a nuclear plant to explode

Bio weapons, are already something we apprehend the misuse of

A day when the earth…

Be My Love

the earth is changing so fast
it might even change its orbit
who knows we can never tell
so long as we don’t go to hell.

the earth is changing so fast
aliens might invade and attack
that’s freaking scary, i swear
it’s okay just don’t despair.

the earth is changing so fast
laboratories might give birth
to world’s future brilliant leader
it’s fine though, just be a dreamer.

the earth is changing fast
and you my dear maybe lost
it’s alright, just be with me
and be my love.

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #263

I have chosen words or situations for this week’s prompt from Baba Vanga’s predictions for 2023.

• Devastating solar storm

• Explosion in a nuclear plant

• Human birth in laboratories

• Alien attacks

• Earth changing its orbit

• Bioweapons

You need not use the words verbatim. You can use one or more…

The chosen words or situations for this week’s prompt -https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2023/01/12/reenas-xploration-challenge-263/ from Baba Vanga’s predictions for 2023.

Alien invasion

Clara loved staring at the stars, they were gorgeous, sprinkling the sky like sugar on her doughnut. It was only a few years ago she landed on Earth, living with another family.

Time passed more slowly here, so three years were like three days at home. It took a while to get used the twenty-four hour day. Now it was like she never was on her home planet.

She missed home, but the strangest difference was babies were born to parents. Not in a laboratory. Her first memory was rows of cots, watching her fellow children grow like buds on a rose bush. Only moved to parents when they were old enough to talk. It was strange watching her earth family bring a new baby home.

They couldn’t do anything but cry.

I have chosen words or situations for this week’s prompt from Baba Vanga’s predictions for 2023.

• Devastating solar storm
• Explosion in a nuclear plant
• Human birth in laboratories
• Alien attacks
• Earth changing its orbit
• Bioweapons

You need not use the words verbatim. You can use one or more of the situations as a stimulus for imagination and base your piece on it.

Fear and the UNKNOWN: The Promotion of Fear and Ignorance through Censorship

Jesse folded his hands and sat back from the computer screen.
The staff prediction’s list in front of him, of mostly apocalyptic events, made him chuckle. Most had already happened to some degree and the others were based on what his more alarmist fellow science fiction editors liked to call unverified ‘conspiracy theories’.
He’d come to accept that blatant lack of self-awareness from co-workers, that was currently spreading faster than Covid-19, but rather than get…

Sudden pandemonium was all around after the Alien attacks, as a devastating solar storm caused an explosion in a nuclear plant, which was followed by Earth changing its orbit.  It was clear that there was no hope left for mankind and we were all going to die and even human birth in laboratories would not help us.  When the aliens started using their bioweapons on us, all hope was lost.  It was so frightening expecting to be killed any minute, and I just wanted it to end, so I put my head between my legs, and kissed my ass goodbye.  Destruction was all around, and I couldn’t pretend that it wasn’t happening, so I had to face the music knowing that there was no coming back from this.

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge 263, where she gave us 6 phrases or situations from Baba Vanga’s predictions for 2023 for…