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Inspired by Eugi’s Weekly Prompt – Happiness & Reena’s Exploration Challenge #186 – We don’t need you to make us feel safe, because you made us feel brave.

always cursing the heavens
while life constantly threw itself at us
but yet
despite the struggles all around
the misfortunes endured
we found our way back to happiness
somehow grateful for the experience
and the lessons taught
the grief of loss
showed us we could endure
the reverent conversations with mother nature
went something like this…

“we don’t need you to make us feel safe, because you made us feel brave“
we had to be

The canopy of maple leaves bathes in sunlight on the Summer Solstice. Still for a moment, the legion of leaves ripple lie a stadium crowd doing the wave.

Despite the abundance of daylight left on this longest of days, afternoon shadows creep across the front yard. The street already basks in the shade.

I’ve spent my Solstice grading the last-minute assignment submissions of students desperate to graduate, or dodge summer school. I spend it now awaiting a parent’s completed google form about her daughter. I will spend it on the deck, enjoying the dinner whose aroma already has my mouth watering.

But while Summer officially begins on this traditionally midsummer day, I struggle with the fatigue with which I awoke. And all the endless light of this longest day does is taunt me with the promise of my bed.

A promise that won’t be…

THIS WEEK’S WORDS come from “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats: worst, hand, word,revelation, thighs, indignant, desert, darkness, stony, nightmare, cradle, beast

Words mean different to different mind

Books, revelation are combined

Some others are indignant kind

Others we have to streamlined

Worst still might be a nightmare

Comes in the darkness don’t know where

In stony silence it could be

From the beast we’d like to be free

Cradling dark thoughts from the Black Sea

Hand in hand by the Aegean Sea

We remember stories of old

In the desert or when we’re cold

But then still good to have read

Our imagination is keyed

Make or break we have to accede

From time to time also agreed

Life is colourful with these books

Discuss anything also crooks*

(c) ladyleemanila 2021

• La Charta

For: Reena’s Xploration Challenge #186 – Reena Saxena (wordpress.com), The Whirligig: Whirligig 322 (sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com)

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Xploration Challenge #185

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“Spending all your time reading, you’ve disconnected with real life altogether my son”.

“What do you mean dad, I am here every day. I eat with you I discuss how your day is going and you can always count on me for anything you need?”

“I mean your own life. When will you find a job or get interested in someone to make her your life partner?”

“I will find time for those one day I promise. Right now the books are holding my whole attention. I find that when I don’t read I feel lost”

“I hope you do son, I really hope…

The cosy lair, a perfect setting

in the backdrop of an infinite treasury,

for a date of the two bibliophiles.

The cocktail of genres, intoxicate their spirit

spell binding their senses into a dreamy ecstasy.

Smell bound by the scent of the crisp papers,

they brew animated conversations over coffee.

Debates unchain emotional exchange of opinions,

the heat lingers on, igniting a feeling of passionate bookbosom

hands feel the pages, the heart sentranced by the words.

The two biliophagist indulge in readultry,

celebrating their profound love for books!

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #186

Eugi’s weekly prompt : Celebration

look into my eyes 
turn the pages of my mind
watch the words tessellate
you and I

turn the pages of my mind
celebrate the poetry
rhyming our lives

watch the words tessellate
sync our worlds in song
Oh the lyrics feel just right

you and I
keep making up stories
in each other's eyes

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Mindfills for
dVerse poetry form ~ Trimeric, hosted by Grace
Reena’s exploration challenge
Eugi’s weekly prompt ~ celebration

1. Trimeric has 4 stanzas
2. The first stanza has 4 lines
3. The other three stanzas have 3 lines each
4. The first line of each stanza is a refrain of the corresponding line in the first stanza (so 2nd stanza starts with the second line, third stanza starts with the third line, etc.).
5. The sequence of lines, then, isabcd, b – -,c – -, d – -.

No other rules on line…

“How can I take her out dancing, if I don’t know how to dance” said Jim to his friend Bob while they were at the antique book store.  Bob replied, “Most of the people on a dance floor are doing basic, simple, repetitive steps and you can do this if you build up your confidence.  Dancing is always done with music, so you must feel the beat, and everyone feels awkward the first time that they dance.  Some people spend years taking dancing lessons and they are still uncomfortable dancing in front of others.  The people who are out there dancing are too busy worrying that they won’t make a mistake, so you won’t have to worry about them judging you.  Practice will help, but you can’t get into the rhythm of the music till you can discern the beat.”

Jim said, “I listen to a lot of music, but…

Inspired by Reena’s Exploration Challenge #186 & Eugi’s Weekly Prompt – Celebration

hello
    fellow 
       bibliophile

what is your recommendation
what is the latest you've read
perhaps i would like it too

books are always a cause for celebration
more stimuli for our fantasies
more reflection in our souls

and i get to add another ten 
     to the twenty 
         already on my side table