General

A raindrop is held together by surface tension and when falls from the sky and lands on to the ground or into the ocean, it ceases to become a raindrop anymore, and it will try to seek its own level as it eventually joins other droplets.  It might be consumed or end up in a in stream, river, lake, or an ocean, and it can also go underground.  When a raindrop lands, the liquid in the drop will be attracted to the surface of what it has landed on, it will continue to spread and eventually adhere to this surface or be repelled away.  The water cycle is often taught as being a simple circular cycle of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation, but it is more complex than that.  The water cycle can be thought of as death, when the water evaporates and rebirth when we get precipitation.  There are actually…

The prompt is a theme again…

Rebirth

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What is rebirth?

A second chance at life?

A chance to do better than before

Or to be born in a form totally different from the first one?

Intriguing questions that perhaps no one can answer with any certainty. For even if people are reborn, they don’t come back with memories of a previous life lived on this earth.

Though I don’t believe that we are given different forms on rebirth on this earth, I do believe that in one lifetime, we are sometimes given a chance to become a better person. A person who has decided to take a new form, abandoning their old traits.

That’s why this phenomenon is often referred to as turning a new page or reinventing oneself. In fact, it is for many, a part of growing. To learn from past mistakes and experiences and do better…

mind captures pictures,
maps scenarios within,
cascading clouds like,
mysteriously shifts shape,
different plane entirely.

Form :- Tanka ( 5/7/5/7/7 syllables)

Acknowledgements :- Thank you Reena Saxena for hosting Reena’s Exploration Challenge #235. The above photo is the prompt. For rules please refer here. Thank you all for stopping by and reading.

It’s not about freedom

It’s not about the average citizen’s

Well being,

It’s about total control

CCP style,

Two factions,

Governments struggling to retain

Sovereignty and their own control,

Western unelected backroom psychopaths

Hijacking governments, instigating and perpetuating

Endless wars and plunder in their evil quest to control

The world,

Time is running out for people to come to their senses,

Unless slavery and destruction top bucket lists.

Stephen Nesbitt ©

From “In This Moment”www.StrangersAndPoetry.com

6:22 AM June 21, 2022

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We have a collage this week.

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My mind thinks
Thoughts aplenty 
Zooming around 
Like fish in a bowl 


Sometimes they are
All positive 
And sometimes 
Negativity strikes 


Sometimes gratitude 
Is overwhelming 
But at others 
Self-pity dominates


My mind is a maze
And even I don’t know 
The full potential 
Of this remarkable engine 

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Written for RXC PROMPT #235, hosted by Reena

#Keepitalive

#RXC

My mind is adept at playing games with me, follows no rules, and wields a power so strong,

the darkness of its depth leaves me petrified, I writhe under its sting, the pain seems unbearable

sometimes it shrivels like a deflated balloon, but mostly it swells up in haughty pride

 it conjures up the wiliest thoughts, cementing it with resolute conviction and barricading it with an inflated ego.

I am blinded in a haze when it showers missiles of fear.

Wallowing in self-doubt, I feel like a hapless pawn under its clutches.

It is only when its sublime qualities come to fore, it rings in bells of happiness

I love its mellowed persona, when I get to be Me, revelling in a euphoric bubble, afraid that it may burst anytime.

After long battle of trying to gain control over my mind,

I have realized, its mercurial temperament is fraught with…

THIS WEEK’S WORDS come from“Do/Do Not”by Nisha Atalie:sniff, open, mouth, poison, paths, mountain, rainwater, dead, shiny, ducks, glittering, mangos

Sometimes, even I’m afraid

Of the things my mind comes up with

As I open my mouth, one never knows

If glittering sayings or poison ivy comes out

The paths of discovery is amazing

Sniffing rainwater or ripe mangos

One never knows until one tries

Sometimes, even I’m afraid

Climbing mountains or any challenge

All the struggles and hindrance

There is always pros and cons

Of the things my mind comes up with

Shiny truth or reaching a dead track

Could be rewarding, could be frustrating

Birds still fly, ducks quacking

As I open my mouth, one never knows

Our mind’s brilliant with random thoughts

Connecting things and memories

All the secrets we keep, heartaches and pain

If glittering sayings or poison ivy comes out*

(c) ladyleemanila 2022

• Cascade

Tenacity

we could be anything we want to be with the power of our minds we will see

how our dreams and our goals become a reality
‘though the road may not always be easy as one two three

i had my fair share of failures along the way
it was difficult it tested my resilience and tenacity

i relied on my courage and continued even in the absence of my strength

i fought back fearlessly over and over again for what i truly want

i am where i am now because i refused to stay where i was before

i am where i am now because i dared to move ahead even when the road was chaotic

i am where i am now because i stopped looking back and looked forward all the time

for nothing in this world can take the place of a powerful mind a tenacious…