General

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.

This last week has been a weird weather week, and not in a good way.

The sun was so hot this week, there were prefabs in London that caught fire due to the extreme heat. I remember sitting in my car at 6 in the afternoon, and it feeling like the middle of the day, and it was still too hot.

I am old enough to remember the summer of 76, it is still talked about today, as weather being so hot we weren’t allowed to use hosepipes, and could get fined if we did so. Wasting water was a crime, and I used to go to the Lido, where I could sunbathe, swim, and eat ice-cream.

It wasn’t even as hot then as it was on Tuesday.

I went to an indoor swimming pool with with daughter, and granddaughter, and the cold water was…

The Fight

i forgive the stars
for not shining the brightest
at nights when i needed a little
spark of light outside my bed
when my world is at its darkest.

i forgive the rainbow
for not showing up
the day storm took away
my strength, my hope, my dreams
when my world is crumbling down.

i forgive the sun
for forgetting to rise
the morning my soul was broken
by night’s traumatic dreams
and false promises of a better morning
when my world is in complete halt.

and i forgive myself
for not taking on
the fight anymore.

P. S.

When I saw Reena’s Photo Collage Prompt, I immediately thought of the many battles I fought. The kind of fight that seemed to be an endless battle; and I wonder maybe it’s time to just stop. Just stop fighting.

Maybe. Or maybe not.

If ever I do it doesn’t…

The Writer’s Games have ended! I sent in my final story yesterday. Guests have left. The family is busy. I might get a full day to myself. And the sun is out. 😎

Hope and Despair

Last week, inspired by some abstract art books:

• Abstraction in Art & Nature by Nathan Cabot Hale
• Abstracts In Acrylic & Ink by Jodi Ohl
• Abstract Art Painting by Debora Stewart

and a writing tip from the Shaelin Writes video below, I started a new phase in my study of abstract nouns. Each week I’ll choose two opposing abstract nouns and attempt to create an image representing both. To inspire my work, I’m expanding my research from studying the words, history, and philosophy, to collecting music, paintings, photographs, poems, stories, scientific studies, and anything else I can find that represents the two abstractions, immersing myself for the week.

Using the statement, “Find the despair…

The year
raging in our window.
The street is on fire,
shots pounding against sky,
the stars screaming again,
and somewhere, someone
singing.

Close the blinds,
turn up the TV,
maybe next year will be better,
but I can’t convince it so.
We have no part.

Written for The Weekend Writing Prompt.

truth,
two faced,
bitter fact,
veiled convenience,
wait,

truth,
mirror,
liminal,
conscience’s face off,
feel,

truth,
stop & go,
frozen thoughts,
introspect doubts,
care,

truth,
mirage,
judgemental,
different self,
heal.

Poetry form :- Lanturne or Lanterne (1/2/3/4/1 syllables). The above is a Lanterne series.

Acknowledgements :- Thank you Colleen. M. Chesebro for hosting Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday Challenge #280:– Prompt Theme :-Lanturne or Lanterne . Thank you Reena Saxena for hosting Reena’s Exploration Challenge #239. Theme :- You wake up to discover a completely different, unknown face staring back at you from the mirror. Thank you all for stopping by and reading.

You wake up to discover a completely different, unknown face staring back at you from the mirror. Another great prompt by https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/author/reinventionsreena/

Every morning, there is less to see.

An unknow face stares back at me in the mirror, and I know it isn’t me. I can’t see the real person behind the mask. Flashes of light, mixed in with shadows floating across my line of vision.

It’s getting worse, I know it is, but I’m not a victim.

I will learn to live with my blindness, learn to be me again.

I listen to another tutorial, get used to the monotone voice telling me what my eyes should be seeing. It is difficult, and I want to throw my mobile as far as it would go, but I need to persevere.

If I don’t I’ll be defined by my disability.

I have a job to do, and losing my…