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Mists of dreams transfigures,

As illusionary clouds,

To be lost in wisps of imagination,

Just as a cactus flower stops to bloom,

Enchanting,

After eagerly waiting for long,

Blossoming,

Leading light.

31 words, free style

Acknowledgements :- Thank you Reena Saxena for hosting Reena’s Exploration Challenge #206, theme :- light. Thank you Sadje for hosting What do you see challenge#107, picture prompt. Thank you all for stopping by and reading.

Thereisnothingintheworldthathasnotalreadyhappened,beenseen,orbeencreated;thingsexistnowastheyalwayshave.

This idiom hurt when I read it first. I was one of the young, naive thinkers who believed that all I do, write and think is my original brainwave.

The quote was kind of forgotten, but the wisdom returned in small doses, as I watched people around me grow old.

They appear to be unrecognisable compared to their previous self. And yet, I see familiar shades in their behaviour, their conversations.

My maternal grandmother died young at 32, so my Mom did not see her growing old. I see her talk and behave like her mother-in-law, my paternal grandmother. This is not genetic. It’s acquired behaviour, which she thinks is appropriate for an old woman of her age.

Negative role models

These are the people we don’t like and swear never to do what they did.

It applies to many bosses I’ve had. There was a conscious effort in…

Light my fire, so I can be blinded by the light.  Without darkness, there is no light.  They say that Mohamed Ali was so fast that he could turn out the light and be under the covers before it became dark.  Breathe deep the gathering gloom and watch the light fade from every room.  Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes.  Good golly Miss Molly is rocking at the house of blue light.  You give me fever causing my eyes to light up when you call my name.  You are such a pretty little thing let me light the candle.  Jack Straw was a half a mile from Tucson, by the morning light, when I decided to shine my light through the cool Colorado rain.  Once in a while you get shown the light and this may be why George Harrison focused on the Inner Light.

Written for Reena’s…

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #206

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God didn’t give me wings

but bestowed my mind

with thousands of wings

to fly above the clouds

to discover new lands

to never sit still in one place

however, mayI try

with the mind of a wanderer

and the body tied to the earth

I make my life enchanting

by not to take a flight

when I see others in a plight

and that’s enoughto enlighten my heart

and fill my dayswith

light and delight

~ Indira