whipping the self with rods of guilt for dry spells of creative activity I feel jaded within lines of busy-ness keys to the psyche lost in mindless work I will fly again across the sky to rediscover fertile spots in arid expanses Weekly Writing Prompt #134 (5) Words: Mar 26th | FLY … Continue reading Arid expanses
Feel free to write whatever comes to mind. (And I did!!)
The annual meeting of the philosophically challenged met to hear the eminent professor, Louis V Socratrees. His visit and expected lecture on the virtues of the placement of ceilings in the modern technological world was anticipated by most as the highlight of the meeting.
“Ceilings,” he began to the hushed room, “are there for a purpose. And that purpose is logical and at the same time baffling and tiresome to those who require a straight answer to most questions.
They are there in most rooms you enter to remind us that we have to continue the struggle to achieve what most would consider the impossible.
Ceilings represent those things in life we crave for but never achieve. The pursuit of happiness is one we occasionally get fleeting glimpses of like when you win a lottery prize, score a goal…
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she gave up her chance
of breaking the glass ceiling
to take care of kids
looks around her empty nest
with a sad empty feeling
In response toReena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 29
a
fly
on your
wall or a
lizard on ceiling
I’d gladly be to know if you
miss me when you are
all alone
in your
own
room
In response toReena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 29
The prompt word this week is CEILINGS PICTURE PROMPT Feel free to write whatever comes to mind – poem, story, free format writing, personal reflections, memoirs, anecdotes -- and link up to this post. LAST WEEK’S ROUND UP Hecblogger at http://playingwithwords.blog/2018/03/16/reverie/ Eugenia at http://amanpan.com/2018/03/16/order-of-the-day/ Michael at http://summerstommy.com/2018/03/18/reenas-exploration-challenge-week-28/ Reena Saxena at https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2018/03/19/the-beauty-of-idleness/
Reenas Exploration Challenge Week 27
I have been thinking about the above statement for a few days now, sorting it out in my mind. Pain can become something more. A way to tell you are alive. A way to overcome adversity. The path to a new understanding in your life.
In the beginning, however, why else would there be pain except as an instinctive response to preserve life and limb? Feel pain. Bad. Run away. Or crawl away or whatever one is capable of doing at the time.
Pain? Shouldn’t climb that tree and fall out. Shouldn’t fall off of high rocks. Or let a snake bite you. Or a saber-tooth tiger. Or stand in the way of a woolly mammoth stampede. Not sure how fast Woolly Mammoths were able to run, but even at a plod, standing in front of them was not a good idea.
Then came tools…
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Ba Ba, black sheep .... Nah, this one was white and handsome. She imagined how he would look shorn of his white glory, and wearing a terrified look in the butcher's cabin. The vegan had decided to adopt a few, and take care of them Three Line Tales, Week 112
The memory of placing carrot heads in water on the window sill was vivid. It lent freshness to her mother’s kitchen. In her teens, she had started a social media campaign for people to throw off seeds of summer fruits on the sides of the road. No, it was not meant to litter the place. … Continue reading Hobbies
A visit to this place was an annual ritual. She drove deftly through the risky bends, to thank the dark mountains. Years back, a car had tumbled down the valley and killed its sole occupant. The news appeared in an obscure column of the local newspaper, and then, disappeared from public memory. A little cosmetic … Continue reading Gratitude
She threatened to expose his financial crimes and other misdeeds. He flew down to arrive at a compromise. As luck would have it, he found her dead with an overdose of drugs. The body was carefully placed in a bathtub, and then, water run over it. The police registered a case of accidental drowning in … Continue reading Bathtubs
