General

I am learning after an age it is difficult to bend
I am learning some relationships I need not mend

I am learning life flows irrespective of me
I am learning sometimes it’s best to just be

I am learning I have become a sum of all expectations
I am learning not all actions require knee-jerk reactions

I am learning I can lurk in the shadows
I am learning I can miss a few curve balls life throws

I am learning unlearning is an improvement
I am learning moving sideways is also a movement

I am learning to champion causes close to my heart
I am learning to not bother about the popularity chart

I am learning stopping and leaning is alright
I am learning the sun needn’t always be bright

I am learning to allow life to overwhelm me
I am learning chaos allows me to thrive and be…

repeating untruths

manage to wangle sheeple

life’s flow unguarded

Reena’s Xploration Challenge#173

Your Daily Prompt – Wangle – February 19, 2021

-Eugenia

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यूँ तो समझदारी में कमी नहीं मेरी
जाने क्यों जज़्बातों में बह जाता हूँ

जानता हूँ झूठ है फ़ितरत में तेरी
फिर भी तेरी बातों में बह जाता हूँ

दिन भर तो ख़्याब संभालता हूँ तेरे
कच्चा बाँध हूँ रातों में बह जाता हूँ

कौन तस्सवुर करे रुस्वाई के बाद
आशिक हूँ चाहतों में बह जाता हूँ

सोचता हूँ तोड़ दूँ सारे बंधन अमित
बेबसी है कि नातों में बह जाता हूँ

In response to: Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 173

Reena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge

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The flow of my notions goes unhindered

One thought merging into another like a cascade waterfall

I start from a tiny idea and let it expand

Many thoughts and notions coalescing and expanding

There is a whole world of ideas, stories, and characters

Vying for my attention, trying to get priority

I let this parade of ideas go unchecked, unchallenged

I don’t interrupt the flow or I will lose…

The feral mind refuses to be tamed

it forays into the past

latches on to the unpleasant memories

digs out hurt and scars afresh.

Then it dashes to the future, unabashed

dwells on worries unknown

embraces an incredulous streak.

As it oscillates between the past and the future

drowning in the torrent of thought’s flow,

I navigate, to harness it in the path

of living in the present.

The task has been daunting

but the efforts worth it,

transcending my life beyond imagination

to the boundless blessings of ” Now”!

Eugi’s weekly prompt : Champions

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #173 : Flow

his champion flow
brilliant rays emanating
his light blinds us all

Flow

Carried in a current
barely perceptible
beneath the ice,
yet beyond the limits
of these banks,
my thoughts flow.

Wider waters await,
as near as the next thought.

This poem is my response to Reena’s Exploration Challenge #173,
where the prompt is Flow.

Our recent subfreezing temperatures means local streams will be iced over and that I’ll have to paddle on the Missouri or the Osage River if I want to fulfill my ritual of a monthly kayak venture. Sunny and 56ºF is predicted for next Tuesday, so I’ll plan for a paddle on the Osage, which has a much milder current than the Missouri.

The Missouri River is currently witnessing a rare occurrence. Five miles upstream from Jefferson City, MO, an ice jam has reduced the flow of the river, so that the channel depth (not the overall river depth) at Jefferson City is at or…

There was a time when time
Broke-down. You may not remember,
Happened the other day, but I was there.
Moments were frozen to themselves.
The sky stood above silence. The cars
Were sad, purposeless structures;
The people within had no clue
That time had a malfunction
And that they were no longer alive
Nor dead. But, things were fixed
And everything rushed along
Beyond knowledge as if the time
When time broke never occurred.
Not even the universe knew
As it continued to retread its grave.

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Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge #172.