when, how, where and why the wild story began pleasures to enjoy on life’s roller coaster pulling all in adventures unplanned, hitherto unseen #Weekly Tanka Prompt #Poetry Challenge - Week 106
Roller Coaster
Disintegration
presuppositions falling to pieces - grounds unfamiliar Colleen's Weekly Tanka Tuesday Poetry Prompt
Half-life
While others calculated my half-life, I made full use of the other half to blossom. There is no water in the pool, but I’m not a mermaid anymore. I’ve metamorphosed into human form, and developed a pair of legs. I can run and escape, before the half-life ends. full and final or still in transition … Continue reading Half-life
Curves and Dots
For me it was a room with a view – into the minds of writers. For all others, it was my grandfather’s dingy, old library with just a wall-mounted fan whirring away in sultry summer months. I remember neatly stacked books arranged on the shelves. A few of those challenged me with their Urdu script, … Continue reading Curves and Dots
Unanticipated
“What is the point in playing, when I can anticipate the other’s moves?” He often smiled in a derogatory manner, watching his siblings play. Twelve years later, he applauded in the audience, as his closest rival and twin brother received the National Award for his book. The rows and columns had been extended on all … Continue reading Unanticipated
History
“Vandalism has only rendered the statue headless. The persona with life experience imprinted on stone cannot be erased. I can see the pain, the scars and triumphs which moved the sculptor’s hands.” “I agree. History can be rewritten, not erased or undone.” (255 characters) Twittering Tales
Inspire
why tame desires to scale high peaks, rest my feet, live to tell all tales to inspired kids who will climb ladders I carry? Weekly Writing Challenge #151
Effervescence
focus sight above watch evaporating hollowness of effervescence Vision BrewNSpew Cafe 7
Being overambitious
psychoanalysts wielding a surgeon’s knife but failing to reach dark depths of the human brain cleansing is high ambition Ronovan Writes
Paparazzi
Fannie Hooe came and disappeared in a flash, leaving tales behind. The paparazzi failed to notice that her sister’s child was not seen after that. Her sister was a single woman, and soon left town, but nobody enquired about the father. In fact, it should have been about the mother of her child. Fannie Hooe … Continue reading Paparazzi
