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Reena’s Exploration Challenge Week 48

Welcome to Week 48

Today’s challenge is fairly simple.

Just use the given sentence somewhere in your piece – poem, story, anecdote, memory, quotation or anything else. You may choose to just take the theme, and not use the words in your piece.

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She walked through fire, but was not burnt by it……

At least on the outside. No burns were visible, no scars, no charred flesh to show the pain bound deep inside. Fire was her natural habitat. Fire, in fact, had long ago ceased to mean anything in her life. She no longer felt the burning on her skin, flesh melting like watercolors in the rain.

Once damaged, nothing mattered but that she walked firm in the world, head held high, eyes fixed before her, forever towards the horizon. Survival. Survive the fire. Survive the looks, the horror, the memory of what she once had…

She walked through fire, but was not burnt by it, which leaves me with three possibilities of how this occurred.  The woman had this mysterious skill which allowed her to become the strange fire walker of Borneo.  She started out walking barefoot over a bed of hot embers or stones and kept pushing the limits of physics, till her whole body became completely resistant to any flames.  There were other fire walkers around who were able to limit the amount of time that their feet were in contact with the hot coals, staying below the threshold time where it was not long enough to induce a burn, but she was a whole level above her competition.  Maybe this chick who played with fire and did not get burned was just someone who not burnt out, meaning that she was not completely exhausted due to being overworked.  That brings us…

Reena’s Exploration Challenge -Week 48

Today’s challenge is fairly simple.

Just use the given sentence somewhere in your piece – poem, story, anecdote, memory, quotation or anything else. You may choose to just take the theme, and not use the words in your piece.

She walked through fire, but was not burnt by it……

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‘She walked through fire but was not burnet by it burned.‘, and thus proved her chastity.

क्या अज़ब आलम है कि
आग लगाती हो मगर

खुद उसमें जलती भी नहीं ।१।

क्या गज़ब सी बात है कि
लुट गए हम पूरे मगर

तेरी कोई गलती भी नहीं ।२।

दूर कभी न जाने की
खायी थी कसमें मगर

हमसे अब मिलती भी नहीं ।३।

दुनिया होती कदमों में
पर तुम साथ नहीं अगर

मेरी कुछ चलती भी नहीं ।४।

क्या होगा अंजाम अमित
दवा असर न करती और

कोई दुआ फलती भी नहीं ।५।

In response to:Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 48

THIS WEEK’S WORDS come from “Among the Rocks” by Robert Browning: gigantic, simple, bones, clear, bask, knows, knees, throes, ripple, gain, heap, earth

She walked through fire, but was not burnt by it
She took a gigantic heap and has won
Life’s a big adventure, she’s to admit
There’s always an action and reaction
What’s clear is she has to try and never quit
On this earth life is wonderful and fun
Bask in the glory and learn the lesson
Be in control and carry the burden

She kept on walking through the fire and how
She got burnt sometimes, throes of pain and hurt
Some ripples of ups and downs anyhow
Gaining or losing even with effort
She knows she can harvest what she has ploughed
Simple as that as long as she’s stalwart
She has got a bone of contention
She’s enjoying her life that’s for certain*

(c)…

love
is
but a
river of
fire no one can
cross unscathed – seemingly she did

In response to:Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 48