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Reena has set a prompt with these words –

“I have untapped abilities waiting to be discovered.”

I don’t know what my untapped abilities are to be honest.

I have always wanted to write, and even a a child I preferred to be writing or reading. Although, I always thought I would write novels, but since moving three years ago, I have expanded my network.

Joining a writing group, I met a group of like minded people. It was two of those writers, who wrote plays for our local entertainment centre. It was something I had never done – write plays, but I wanted to at least try.

My first monologue never did get shown because COVID hit, but I was proud of the result all the same. It was my first time writing in the view point of a man with PTSD. My next play, written during COVID, was…

I have untapped abilities waiting to be discovered.  I have had dreams that my books would become Best Sellers, but since I have never published any of them, that probably won’t happen.  I have had other dreams where things that I would do would change the world forever, but I never followed through with any of them.  I invented the Obama Pajama and I figured that people might want to buy them.  I designed them with patriotic symbols and donkeys on them and they were very cute, and I told a lot of people about them, but everyone I told thought that I was a bit crazy.  If this became a hot item, I was going to follow it up with the Dalai Lama pajama.  I know that there is something special inside of me and I at one time thought that my blood was special and that it could…

Inspired by Reena’s Exploration Challenge #229 & Eugenia’s Weekly Prompt – Starry Nights

on these starry nights
immersed in that which grounds me
reflective insights come easily
seeing immense possibilities await
i have untapped abilities waiting to be discovered

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #228

#228- Assortment

BITTER TRUTH

Among the assortment of

Tasty

Mouth-watering

Delicacies

On the platter

I feel sad

For the singled out

Untouchable

Bitter Gourd

Though

It is the best friend of your gut

This is the bitter truthabout

The bitter guard

But

Who cares for the bitter truth

About

The balance between

The good foodand the bad food

When it comes to

Titillate

Your taste buds

It does not feel good when made fun of
to take all the insults,
meted out by those in a better position, quietly

to never call out a bully
to know you are right and still not assert self
to never raise your voice against injustice
all these are really, really bad

It is not the worst thing to lose the race to top
It is also not the worst thing to have your heart broken

To be cheated of your hard-earned money is certainly not the worst
nor is being beaten blue and black by the upper caste people

To be leered at and groped is very bad
to be abused, sexually or otherwise can almost kill, still it is not the worst!

to be put behind the bars for having a mind
to have no one at your side
to bow to the tyranny of a tyrant
are…

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I am never not amazed at the enormous potential in the act of writing. And yet, I’ll acknowledge it is (to me), a daunting task. And yet, it contains the potential to be a most enjoyable exercise. As in any endeavor we undertake, be it learning a new instrument, taking voice lessons or learning the art of origami, it is in the consistent doing of a thing that paves the way for achieving better proficiency if that is our goal. At Six Sentence Stories, we have a vehicle by which to improve our writing skills or simply a place to have fun. Today, we extend an invitation to share your stories and adventures, poetry and musings, new chapter in your serial story or some good old fashioned soc using the prompt word below. Write 6 and only…