Welcome back to the last Challenge of 2024! PROMPT #311 Time is a continuum, ongoing in nature. Yet, at the end of the calendar year, we step over a man-made threshold. Merriment is the flavor of the season, yet on New Year, we do reflect on the year passed by. Well, you may have guessed … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #311
The Maharani graciously announces the name of the winner, who happens to be a commoner. A princess from another kingdom occupies the runner-up slot along with another plebeian. The puppeteer has used the skills of a chess master to get the vote-bank arithmetic right. There is no choice, especially when national elections are around the … Continue reading And the crown goes to …..
Welcome back to another week of inspiration! The next prompt on 14th December, 2023 will be the last in this year. We will take a break and resume again on 4th January, 2024. PROMPT #310 The theme for this week is POWER. Here's some beautiful poetry on power. William Wordsworth, ‘The Power of Armies Is … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #310
Welcome back! PROMPT #309 - OPPOSITES The picture above depicts our theme for the week but is not the prompt. I scanned the net for poems on Opposites and was stuck at two brilliant lines, in a poem by Dzejnieks. It's just... Me sipping through dimensions.Both so different I consider them almost parallel. You can … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #309
At the outset, let me thank each participant, reader and visitor on this blog for enriching my life in some way - knowingly or unknowingly. It is great to know what someone across the seven seas, someone I may never meet physically thinks and how they respond to my words. It is enlightening to know … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #308
I was working on the Thanksgiving theme and found a beautiful poem. ORIGINAL POEM AS IF TO DEMONSTRATE AN ECLIPSEby Billy Collins I pick an orange from a wicker basketand place it on the tableto represent the sun.Then down at the other enda blue and white marblebecomes the earthand nearby I lay the little moon … Continue reading Following the Muse
Welcome back! PROMPT #307 I give you 10 openings or endings for your piece this week to be included in your piece at the beginning or end. Find a way to include it in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, poetic prose, prose poetry or alternating prose. Choose any one of the following prompts. He smiled as he … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #307
It’s not easy being you the voice of sanitywhen madness sellseasy going, laid backwhere ambition tellslengths to whichpeople will gotill dreams come true It’s not easyfinding a nichebeing visibleattracting eyeballsrepelling mothsfielding calls It’s not easy movingat your own paceleg-lessplaced by someone elsein a convenient place It’s not easy being a fairy talewhen stories unfold all … Continue reading Dear Lantern
Welcome back! PROMPT #306 Our prompt in this week is the image below. Let the muse take you from dark windows to light, till you see something that resonates with you. So many things keep happening behind windows - of buildings and our minds. There is no restriction on format of the piece. There is … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #306
loud mind-beats disrupt quietEach person wondering…What are others pondering?A dollar for your thoughtslet me sell you something, but what? strategy wrapped as ideology?business disguised as a revolution?unsheathed hunger for powercleverly masked as a savior? devices, apps are only toolsyou don’t see you are wiredyou press fake buttons to playfollow our commands to staywithin the periphery … Continue reading Behind the scenes
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