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Daunting

i am learning from the depths of my childhood memories.
listening to the mist as they get suspended in the air.
hearing whispers of my reality, fighting to see the world clearly.
’twas daunting like challenging the fog; so confused.
unable to think clearly, obscurity was screaming out loud.
oblivion was inevitable, sheltered abyss was my comfort zone.
confessions were made in the dark, there was total vagueness.
there was lack of certainty, and my eyes become bleak and blurry.
what am i and who am i are questions commanding my past.
finding the answer is like hunting the sun in the silence of the night.

truth can be elusive.
but when its there laid perfectly in front of you
reality becomes a formidable scenario.

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #226

• Shelter In The Abyss
• Commanding My Past
• Listening To The Mist
• Challenging The Fog
• Learning From…

“Dig deep…” she said, “and look inside yourself” as she scratched out notes on her notepad.

I rolled my eyes a bit and slumped in my seat. I wondered what she was writing down on that piece of paper. I couldn’t see it, but I bet she was doodling. She was probably bored to death, especially since I was not volunteering any information to the conversation. I am a quirky person, and “socially unacceptable” was the title I gave myself. I figured I would use the time to torment the good doctor to see how far I could go before she started asking the more usual questions.

“Doc…you are the professional. Shouldn’t you be asking me questions or something?” I poked with my words for an answer. “Dig deep? About what? You haven’t asked me anything. You want me to tell you about how I…

PROMPT #226

Choose any one or more from the list, or use it as inspiration to write your piece.

1. Shelter In The Abyss
2. Raised By Time
3. Commanding My Past
4. Fade Into The World
5. Listening To The Mist
6. Challenging The Fog
7. Learning From The Depths
8. Hunting The Sun
9. Delaying the Immortals
10. Confessions of the Dark

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Learning From The Depths

Falling into an abyss 
Facing the dark all alone 
Calling to my hidden strength 
Learning from the depths
Rising again, rejuvenated
Life is a harsh teacher 
But these lessons are our need

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Written for RXC # 226, hosted by Reena

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I decided to write a book to help people understand where the Sun is in relation to the Earth, and I will title my book “Hunting The Sun”.  Everybody is probably aware of the astronomical unit (or AU), which is the measurement of distance that is used for what separates the Earth from the Sun distance which is 149,597,870,700 meters, or almost 92.956 million miles.  This astronomical unit provides a convenient way to express and relate distances of objects in the solar system and to carry out other calculations for objects that are far away, but not in interstellar space, as that is better handled with the light years and when the distance is greater than the parsec is used.  Jupiter is five times further away from the sun than the earth is, so its orbit is about 5 AU from the sun.

Earth travels around the sun in an elliptical orbit, so our distance…

Inspired by Eugenia’s Weekly Prompt – Dusk & Reena’s Exploration Challenge #226

the fiery sky
begs me at dusk
come
see nature’s bounty
unburdening

each step i take
mires me to its message
relinquishing the day
i listen for the confessions of the dark

mother cries
her beauty is vanishing
her children the cause

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Hello fellow poets, Michelle Beauchamp here (aka Mish) your host for this week’s Poetics.

It has been difficult to see the mass destruction and disturbing events taking place in Ukraine. I am confident that I speak for all of dVerse when I say that it hurts our hearts. We’ve seen the heaviness of it all released in recent poetry. I was extremely moved last week by a poem written by Ain Starlingsson, ” A Song of what they Mislabel as Innocence”. He writes from “a cellar with a flickering light as the bombs fall” and marvels “at the ability of children to make the best they can of every given situation”. If you missed it, you can find his poem here. This particular line became so embedded…