Writing takes me to nooks and corners I’ve never been before, and yet, I am unable to escape myself. The characters I paint are as I see them. I wonder if I will be forgiven to change their reality to suit me perspective. Cutting it short, here’s the prompt for this week. FOR THE NEW … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #70
squeezing into wormholes story-hunting peeling off layers to reach the core turning it around for right characterisation A passerby says Lol It’s only graffiti…. Yet, I emerge – enriched with the art and what I saw I know a little more than those who said Lol Reena's Exploration Challenge #69
Welcome to the reality of 2019, as we get entrenched deeper in it! The prompt for this week is short and simple, and yet not so. Does this picture intrigue you, or spark a creative output? Wait a minute, before you start typing. Have a look at these pics. I’ve rotated the picture. Does this … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #69
It is our concept of normal, which restricts and constricts us. And there are so many versions of ‘being normal’, that one never gets around to being totally acceptable. Yet, parents, teachers and priests keep struggling to propagate their own concepts of acceptable behavior. Excellence is deemed to lie in reproducing published answers from a scripture … Continue reading The New Normal or No Normal
Wishing you all a very Happy New Year! It feels good to be back again, and the words that ring in my mind are “Back to Normal”. Well, I give you two quotes here, related to the words. Pick one, pick both or spin your own take on ‘Back to Normal’. Contradictory, yes .... but … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #68
The living do not have a choice, but to cross the bridges in time. I do not know to what extent plant and animal life can foresee the future, but human beings possess this crucial toll of survival. It is the ability to forecast, project, dream, plan, visualize that keeps us going. In absence of … Continue reading Unsung odes
Welcome to the drift, as we sail into a new capsule of time! This will be the last Challenge in 2018. The next one will appear in the first week of January, 2019. PROMPT FOR THE NEW ENTRANTS There is no restriction on the format or the length of the piece. It just has … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #67
Challenge Poem after the sun departs and we are greeted by constellations or what we could see past the rising light of the city The elitists of the day go home A time of opportunities has gone down with the day But what would the night bring us? The start of a new journey and … Continue reading Goliaths of the Dark
Welcome again! Well, I thought of using only a picture for this week’s prompt. But then, I came across some lines I couldn’t resist sharing with you. So, here we are with two cues – Choose one or choose both and just fire. Picture Prompt Poem after the sun departs and we are greeted by … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #66
nature bounces back in the form of disasters if abused, but shows stories of survival it knows power to manipulate not only corrupts but addicts the world to remote control devices yet it refuses to collaborate with its tormentors it refuses to believe what they believe and fairy tales … Continue reading Persistence
