Reena’s Xploration Challenge # 192

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Sadje’s take on Xploration Challenge #192

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PROMPT #192

It’s an image prompt.

There is no restriction on length of the piece. There is no last date either, unless you wish to be featured in the Weekly Wrap.

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Holding it with all his might

Lest that it may break free from his grasp

This is all that he has earned in his life

A little house to call his own 

An umbrella of security to guard against the rainy days

A few meager possessions, threadbare and poorly

But he had his pride intact

Pride he had in his impeccable honesty 

And a reputation that wasn’t tarnished by temptation

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Last week I played devil’s advocate, ridiculing the virtues of honesty. So it’s just fitting that this week we take pride in threadbare respectability of honest living.

#Keepitalive

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Enlightenment

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I’m sure I saw Gautam walk through a wall, but I’ve been consigned to an asylum for saying that. Buddha developed these powers after enlightenment, but treated it as of no special consequence. She couldn’t think of Gautam ever meditating, but could it be that she  had developed a special power of seeing his spiritual … Continue reading Enlightenment

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #192

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PROMPT #192 It's an image prompt. There is no restriction on length of the piece. There is no last date either, unless you wish to be featured in the Weekly Wrap.  Any post that is found to be offensive, vulgar or something that hurts common sensibilities will not be included. This needs to be a … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #192

First Selfie

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The Instagram coach promises to share a secret treasure at the end of the program. She speaks about the art and science of video making, and leveraging Instagram for profits. The entrepreneurs and wannabes are thrilled. How can things be so simple and so effective? She makes it so easy for them. The coach sighs. … Continue reading First Selfie

Fuelled

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mentalexpeditionson wings of destinytouching all galaxies out theretake mewhere I have never been beforebring me back to same worldrenewed, transformedFuelled... https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2021/07/27/tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-236-themeprompt/

Soul Journeys

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Dreams unending streaming of data from subconscious Poor, illiterate me makes informed guesses but never finds the key To a treasure which can wipe out ignorance poverty of spirit put me on the right track Nirvana is still aeons away… I’ll keep running anyway https://dversepoets.com/2021/07/26/quadrille-132-your-poem-theme-stream/

Resfeber

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Resfeber ….. by rfljenksy

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Resfeber (n.) – Origin: Swedish – Definition: The restless race of the traveler’s heart before the journey begins, when anxiety and anticipation are tangled together.

I have had so many people tell me that I have been a very lucky person.  I have been lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.  I’m lucky that I have a job.  I’m lucky that life has gifted me with so many great things.  I’m so lucky.  LuCk LucKluck!!

This accusation has always confused me. I used to try to argue that point.  The point being that luck did not have much to do with who I was, where I was, or really,  anything in my life.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. – Robertson Davies

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the…

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Manufactured truth

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Manufactured truth ,….by Punam

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A few thousand dead bodies
some floating face up, some face down
they were just some putrid flotsam
why did they make everyone darkly frown?

People running helter and skelter
desperate for a few lungsful of oxygen
they were already gasping for fresh air
pollution killed them, don’t be so high-strung!

Hundreds of corpses piling in the crematorium
night air filled with deep sobs and choking miasma
natural causes kill people too
this country is surely not a burning hell!

Phones and emails hacked at will
anyone who questions the state is its enemy
why raise such a stink over such allegations
the state is the big brother, ’tis not blasphemy!

Lies, fabrication and exaggeration
are peddled in the west in the name of news
there were no deaths, no paucity of facilities
the government puts forth its official views

Trash all the reports and all the data
suspend disbelief…

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