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Tim Hüfner @ Unsplash

( For the visually challenged reader, the photo shows a partially open gate, which is thrown in relief by a light filtering from a doorway)

Sadje at Keep It Alivegives us the image to create a blog post with. 

Decisions need to be made before exiting.
What is waiting on the other side?
Will anyone meet me when I cross the threshold?
Do I reenter my old life and continue to do whatever I feel like doing no matter the consequences?
Or do I decide to do a 180 and change my path?
I’m too young to follow the trail of my unfortunate family members.
I am tired of traveling through this revolving experience.
I need to decide what my future will be.

For Reena’s Exploration challenge: click here to see prompt and join in.

Lighting up the way to heaven
she points her finger at the stars
arching herself to reach afar
humming a big dream to live in
rooted firm in truly being
all of the selves that she can be
even beyond her destiny
plunging into futures with care
calm, confident, with her feet bare
to make her choices. To believe.

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Mindfills of s.s. for

Ronovan Writes Decima challenge – Care in D in rhyme abbaaccddc

MindLoveMisery’s Neeraj hosts a photo challenge

FOWC Plunge

Reena’s exploration challenge – why? Why not? Why you? Why now?

Well, in order to write one, you have to know that a couplet is two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.  You also need to know that a tercet is a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet, and that sounds confusing to me, but it just means that they rhyme with another triplet.  You also need to know what a villanelle is, and that is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain.  A quatrain is a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.  A stanza is a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem and this is also called a verse.  There is one other requirement for writing poetry of this type and that is knowing…

Reena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #170

Welcome to yet another week!

Let’s go off at a tangent, and conquer —- our mindsets, if nothing else. Control the controllable!

PROMPT #170

Create a post on your blog, and copy-paste the link in Comments. In case you are using a pingback, do check back to see if it has worked.

Last, but not least, don’t forget to tag the post “Reena’s Exploration Challenge” for easy location in the blog roll.

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Life throws loads of questions at us

They are simple when we are younger

But grow more complex as we progress in life

All questions have answers that we can look for

Life is a journey of discovery all the way through

“Learn from the cradle to the grave” is a great maxim to live to

Imagine how boring and perplexing life would be

If…

छटी नहीं है ग़म की काली घटा अभी
पर दिखती है आशा की किरन मुझे

कितनी गहरी होगी सोचो प्यास मेरी
लगता है दरया एक कतरा शबनम मुझे

सुनते है भर देता है वक़्त हर घाव
कैसी है यह फिर सीने में चुभन मुझे

किसको फुर्सत सुनता कोई नग़मा मेरा
हर शख़्स मिला अपने में मगन मुझे

नहीं रही मेरी पहले सी सूरत “अमित”
मत दिखलाओ अब कोई दर्पन मुझे

In response to: Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 170

Inspired by Reena’s Exploration Challenge #170

your hesitation asks questions
giving rise to unending doubt
shutting hope down

success in the making asks other questions
your future being challenges your past
it’s waiting to be discovered

force recognition of your strengths
face the obvious which holds you back
achieve all you are capable of

yes, NOW
change your trajectory
live your dreams

demand that of yourself

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #169

we need a vaccine

to induce love, honesty, 

and humanity