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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #169

we need a vaccine

to induce love, honesty, 

and humanity

whispers,

trying hard to ,

percolate soul’s memoirs,

feeble standing guard at threshold,

stiff try.

Poetry Form :- Cinquain ( 2/4/6/8/2 syllables)

Acknowledgements :- Thank you Reena Saxena for hosting the Reena’s Exploration Challenge #169. The challenge is to use the above picture as an inspiration for a piece. For rules please refer here. Thank you all for stopping by and reading.

Nostalgia blurs the rough edges
bringing into sharp focus
only the pleasurable moments
making past a perfect browsing ground.

Avoiding a jab of reality
living in soft focus
often makes present palatable
in the present times.

Closing our eyes
masking our true selves
not living by our own rules
will our future be a photoshopped life!

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #169

What do you see # 66 – January 25 2021

No new writing today, so far at least.

No. Today has been filled with Voices. I have completed drafting my voices picture poetry book – Voices (In The Trash). It is similar to the Beechworth Bakery Bears in format – images with a poem they inspired, as a spread across 2 pages of an 8.5 x 8.5 inch book. Essentially, a Children’s Book format, though I don’t really consider myself a children’s writer.

This particular collection of conversations originated from a walk around a large Trash and Treasure Market in Daylesford, Victoria, a couple of years ago. I was fascinated by the life I saw and felt in the myriad objects that filled up a huge space. Everything I saw had a voice and demanded to be written.

So. Today I have finished (or nearly finished) my design work and have made all of my quality compromises to create a…