Erasure Poem – Labyrinths

The response to Exploration Challenge #11 has been rather inspiring. I happened to come across an article on Labyrinths, which inspired an erasure poem. More inspiring than that, the two are in sync. Allow me to share it before the customary Thursday piece. Source: How walking a labyrinth can trace a route to self-knowledge on Aeon Mag … Continue reading Erasure Poem – Labyrinths

Concentric Paths

concentric movement pain exacerbated unconnected paths distinct, but fated   fantasies of a coil oneness unabated just distant dreams lonely and unmated   jump across boundaries lines which are gated open doors of the soul accept blessings belated   Weekend Writing Prompt by Sammi Cox

Inward movement

She watched the circles move inwards, and disintegrate into fragments. It was a challenge to see the borders between the conscious, subconscious and unconscious. She hoped to achieve wholeness. It looked like she would have to dig in deeper to find herself, till the lines disappeared into white oblivion. (49 words)   Weekend Writing Prompt … Continue reading Inward movement

Unprecedented

uneven was the terrain and the battle skewed in favor of enemies from onset of conflict   exhausted soldiers with infirm captains surprised all, with miracles of guerilla war   there were no options but to win or die they chose life the unprecedented happened.   Saturday Mix at MLMM

Circular journeys

A dream cut short left an ache end of a nightmare brought relief.   It is the journey that matters not the beginning or end.   A shortcut I choose accelerates speed but deprives me of pleasure and pain   It is experience that matters not the goals I achieve   The final destination marks … Continue reading Circular journeys

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 11

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It’s late, and for some reason I find myself wading waist deep against a stream flowing away from me. I know I have to keep going, to keep struggling as in the distance is the place I want to be. I’m not sure what it is at this stage I am striving for, but it has to be better than where I have been.

As I continue my efforts, one foot placed in front of the other I feel the current pulling me back as if this is not where I should be but back in some place it thinks I should be.

At times, there are objects in the water, further making my attempts harder by the second. My back is bent, and I am determined to get to where I know I need to be.

Then I wake up.

I can feel my breathing is rapid, the exertion…

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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 11

Finally, I have decided to continue the Exploration Challenge … The difference If you do not wish to publish personal details, you can change the visibility to Private Post, and keep it as a part of your personal library. The option has been added, only to include more people in the journey, who are weary … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 11

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Three Line Tales, Week 92

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A MILLIONS CRIES IN THE DARK

three line tales week 92: shadow people in a see of reddish light

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Neel Anil Panicker

There they stood, lighted candles in their hands, alongside a million others of their ilk, all standing up for once and voicing their opinions, speaking out against what they thought and felt was wrong and went against the tenets of natural order and justice.

All night long they kept vigil, shouting themselves hoarse, alternatively pleaded, cajoled, harangued, insinuated, hurled invectives, threatened, begged…did everything that was in their command to try and convince the powers that be to step down from their high horses, to peep out of their ivory towers and cast a sympathetic eye towards the havoc their life threatening policies have wrecked.

Alas! It was not to be. Centuries of flapping around in the rarefied waters of omnipotent power had made them…

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