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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 12

This image makes me think of masks.

We are all multi-faceted, and this image to me illustrates that idea.

The notion that like an onion we have many dimensions to us comes to mind.

I think we’d all like to think there is more to us than meets the eye.

I have a neighbour who comes to mind. He is a retired High School Principal and is now days suffering with Parkinson’s Disease.

But he doesn’t see this as a handicap rather as an impetus to get out and do as much as he can for himself while he can.

He rides every day, he goes on trips with his wife and explores the countryside and next year he and his wife are planning a cycling trip to Italy.

He is an avid gardener; his vegetable patch is brilliant to behold, and he maintains a passion and enthusiasm for mathematics.

The other afternoon he found him tutoring…

My anchor
Strong and stable
Always there
By my side
Makes me happy, makes me sad
In sickness and in health

My compass
So I won’t get lost
In the dark
When apart
I will always find my way
Together we are

Happiness
When I am with you
Flowers bloom
The sun shines
Life is tough but we make it
Till death do us part

(c) ladyleemanila 2017

For: Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 12, Shadorma November: 10 of 30

photo by Alex Iby via Unsplash

A strip of black, ashy sand, white breakers above – a grey sky, heavy with sea mist that rolls in and out of the shore like a living thing.

Many would be driven insane by my monochrome world, by the endless crash of the waves, the screaming dip and soar of the gulls – but not me.

Inside me burns a fire of anger so fierce it will turn the sand to glass, boil the seas until they vapourise, leaving nothing but a crust of salt behind. The world will know me.

Written for Sonya at Only 100 Words’ Three Line Tales. See here to join in and to read the other stories.

Eye

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Above and below
Reflected realities
Borders undefined
How can I know where I stand
Or on which side of vision

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Do I stand in earth
Looking out from hollow hills
Or am I a dream
A projection of the soul
Beyond an amorphous Veil

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What does it matter
I am where presence requires
Facing destiny
Riding the current of life
Subjective reality

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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken in Derbyshire at the Derwent Valley Reservoirs, where a village was drowned and where the famous ‘Dambusters’ Squadron trained. The valley holds many hidden treasures still, both natural and man-made. The reflections beneath the bridge here were just perfect on this visit, and there was no way of telling where they began or ended.

As always, I would like to thank  everyone for their contibutions. I love seeing how many different stories and poems can…

Hosted by Reena at https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2017/11/03/reenas-exploration-challenge-week-11/

FROM RAT TO CAT 

By Neel Anil Panicker

“You are a cat. Not just any ordinary cat. The big one. The biggest of them all.  A true blue Royal  Bengal  Tiger. The best and the rarest breed to inhabit the whole wide world.”

Saumik  began to feel dizzy. His head started to swirl. Blood began  to drain out of his face and limbs.

He felt his legs and limbs go limp.

All this not out of fear or pain. But out of shock.

So far no one, not one person in his entire life so far of over two score years on Mother Earth had ever said so many wonderful words of appreciation for him.

A tiger. They were calling him a tiger, that too the best in the business. From a lowly rat to a majestic tiger__that’s quite a paradigm shift. How quickly the wheels…

photo credit

Autumn mystery

colored leaves the last remains

of our summer dreams

these abbreviated days

their accompanying cold

for Kiwinana’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge week 70–Mystery and dreams

and Toads’ Tuesday Platform

UPDATE: and for Thotpurge’s Micropoetry Month: Nov 2017 #7