Those were the days.... by Eugenia
Once upon a time…
Crypto in a complex economy
The article gets more interesting if you know that the author is less than 18 years old ....
Ray of hope
Ray of Hope…. By Aishwarya
Demarcated by boundaries,
Separated across landmasses,
Bifurcated by opinions,
Today,
Across lines,
We stand united.
Though from afar,
Helping each other,
Being one another’s support,
Torchbearers of a single race,
The human race,
Like how Nature intended us to be,
Now that we have experienced,
The true magic of compassion,
The true spirit of warmth,
Sans borders and boundaries,
Once in our lifetime,
Let us not cage it,
Once again,
Let this not only be,
Once upon a lifestyle or,
Once upon a lifetime stories,
To be reminisced about.
Under the canvas of,
Our bountiful universe,
Let’s always spread cheer,
Like she intended,
Not just when we pushed to,
In every bleak,
There is a light,
Every fall,
Promises a climb,
Let only our spirit strengthen,
Together we can.
129 words.
Acknowledgements :- Thank you Reena Saxena for running the Reena’s Exploration Challenge #130. For rules please refer here. Thank…
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Recover
Recover …. by Ramya Tantry
He lost his artistic inspiration…
He lost his imagination..
He lost his sense of adventure..
He lost his passion..
He had lost everything of value to him.
There was an empty canvas on the easel, his colors and tools.
What would he paint?
A question that only he can answer..
How to recover…
Should he paint his path of self discovery..
Or Should he paint what he has already seen..
Or
Something that is yet to be seen…
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #130 – Once upon a lifestyle
Once upon a lifestyle ….. by Lady Lee
So once upon a lifestyle
Every decade or so it comes
It wriggles in, it comes, it drums
Out of nowhere and it is vile
Out of our seat, up on our feet
As the air, water, land defile
What we’ve done, this is the outcome
So once upon a lifestyle*
(c) ladyleemanila 2020
* The Octain, full name Octain Refrain, is a form of poetry developed by English poet Luke Prater in December 2010.
It comprises eight lines as two tercets and a couplet, either as octosyllables (counting eight syllables per line), or as iambic tetrameter, whichever is preferable. Trochaic tetrameter also acceptable. The latter yields a more propulsive rhythm, as opposed to iambs, which lilt.
As the name suggests, the first line is a refrain, repeated as the last (some variation of refrain acceptable). Rhyme-scheme as follows –
A-b-b
a-c/c-a
b-A
A = refrain line. c/c refers to…
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Don’t Gogh
Don’t Gogh …. by Susi Bocks
Years of depression punctuated by obsessive creativity brought him closer to the inevitable. Alcohol became his chosen poison. Lacking the proper nutrition and suffering from frequent bouts of insomnia – it only propelled him deeper into the black abyss. The delusions which led to his self-mutilation only further supported the theory – he was mad, and he felt all alone.
He had lost everything of value to him. There was an empty canvas on the easel, his colors, and tools. What would he paint?
Nothing. He was at his self-inflicted end. “The sadness will last forever,” were Vincent’s final words.
Perfect circles
“I lost the compass. I cannot draw perfect circles now.” I’d wailed before a geometry class in Level 3. Life taught me to keep doodling without any tools – observations, imagination, my take on objects and happenings around me. I choose to keep them black and white, or paint in rainbow colors. The collection expands … Continue reading Perfect circles
Nobody
Nobody …. by Len
Once upon a lifetime we can make a decision that changes the trajectory of our future. So it was on that fateful day in June, as a soldier, accompanied by his companions, struggled through the marshes, oblivious to his surroundings, focused only on putting one foot in front of the other. Their commander ordered a brief halt and sent the soldier to reconnoiter a mile west of the marshes and report back. The soldier wearily waded through knee deep water, peering into the mist for signs of the enemy. After half a mile, stopping to swat at a swarm of mosquito’s feeding on his flesh, he sensed the slight movement of a bush ten yards to his right. Pressing the butt of the rifle to his shoulder he inched slowly forward and parted the bush…
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Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 130
Once in a week ,😀 Sadje’s take on Exploration Challenge #130
Reena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge
PROMPT #130
In this week, write a piece which includes any one or more of the following phrases
Once upon a lifestyle
Once upon a lifetime
Once in a lifetime
~*~
Once in a lifetime
We are caught in a maze
Running around and not finding a way out
Trying to center ourselves and yet off balance
The hope is to escape this maze while alive
~*~
Once upon a lifestyle
There is a unique demand for a change
No one had visualized this scenario before
Friend and lovers apart by necessity not force
Staying home mandatory not a gleeful choice
Work looks more enticing that countless days off
~*~
Once upon a lifetime
We have this choice to heal
Instead of plundering, we can rebuild
Doing nothing has more benefits
Than doing harm by excessive activity
Staying off the roads is…
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A battle of will
A battle of will …. by Aishwarya
Nature’s complex creation,
Man, right from formation,
To cessation,
A wide variety of emotions, he feels,
He deals,
With overthinking, things in his control and away,
Slowly, comparison, jealousy, baseless competition, in his self, they stay,
Trivial nothings to sleepless nights they make way,
Reality seems reel,
Fantasy seems the only way to heal,
Denial, only way of acceptance,
Wastage of time seeks no admittance,
Everything comes to a standstill,
Amidst, a battle of will.
75 words.
Acknowledgement :- Thank you Reena Saxena for running the Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 129 . For rules please refer here. Thank you all for stopping by and reading.
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