landing dab in the middle of chaotic states being stabbed where voice originates nobody has a clue of the grit it takes to just survive, not win or create majorities always win without debate it feels as if makers of the world died intestate https://dversepoets.com/2021/01/11/quadrille-119-dabbling-in-poetry/
I woke up …… by VJ Knutson
This year the plague came
and I blamed the wind
for carrying destruction
and I blamed the sun
for its ineptitude
and the rain,
no friend of mine,
only served to drown
my expectations.
Lockdown
and social distance
masks and antiseptics
how was a soul
to survive?
Pushing 2020
out the door
certain relief
would follow
but change is not
a date on the calendar
a release of circumstance
I turned inward
faced the gloom
and found a spark
forgave the weather
the virus, the news
In 2021, I woke up…
(For Reena’s Exploration challenge: I woke up in 2021… Image my ow
sleepwalking is her bane swirling her auburn mane she walks through dark gates They close in on her, with disdain awake, alert … she is now grown looks for space to call her own mountain guards laugh at her she’ll soon be just another stone there are many of her ilk there hardened, but no … Continue reading Through the iron gates
Eugenia’s point of view on Exploration Challenge #167
I woke up in 2021
mankind still struggles with the past
courage applauded
Reena’s Exploration Challenge#167
I woke up in 2021 ….
-Eugenia
image source – Pexels
breathing freein fresh air -againunfettered unchained thoughtsflying across skiesto fancy destinations https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/sunday-writing-prompt-10th-january-getting-lucky/
hecblogger’s take in Exploration Challenge #167
है मर्ज़ वही पुराना दवा क्या है
नए साल में आखिर नया क्या है
रखता है परहेज़ वो अब भी मिलने से
शायद नहीं जानता वो दया क्या है
क्या पढ़ेगा वो जो हमने लिखा नहीं
जो पूछता है हमसे बयां क्या है
सूख चुके हों जिन आँखों के आँसूं
वो झुकें भी तो उनकी हया क्या है
करके दिल्लगी हमसे पूछते हो अमित
इस खेल में तुम्हारा गया क्या है
In response to: Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 167
I woke …. a limerick by s.s.
I woke up in 2021 from a coma
and went right back into trauma
coz everywhere I looked
people were nuked
by a virus they called the corona
Reena’s exploration challenge – I woke up in 2021
Those monsters are still boiling in the crucible. They drag me back, drive me, set fire to every fibre of my being and give false notions about my identity. Those masks are not me, but everybody thinks so. A face is a lifelong possession, but it is concealed behind the different masks I don every … Continue reading Emotions
Another blow in the chest ……. by Smita
I woke up in 2021…They talked about the year’s demise. The cadaverous yesteryear, perchance, is still lurking in the venomous, moth-eaten chronicles. Putrifying, wafting off an exceptional noisome smell. Once again the year begins with a pound in the chest, completely knocking you down. Standing at the cul-de-sac my eyes glazed over the sable night. Hopefully, it ends differently.
Beneath the graceful curve of the sky, where I tossed a handful of seeds, where blissful clumps of perennials pregnant with plump fruits with copious creepers bursting at the seam bestride the trees in the manner of a leafy colossus. They allure vociferous macaw and indigenous chirpy flinches with their tails dipped in cherry, preening themselves with absurd indifference. Here ladybugs and ants scurry along the callow shoots and burgeoning foliage like colonel blimp. The soft singsong of the leaves awakens a restful ache to lose yourself in the heartening…
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Sadje’s take on Exploration Challenge #167
Reena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge
Welcome to much-awaited 2021! Wish you all a very Happy New Year, brimming with creativity and more freedom than you had in the year that passed away!
+1 is always good. 2020+1 seems better. I hope we are able to say Thank You, 2021 — You were the best.
Well, we go ahead with the Exploration Challenge, as usual, finding a way to connect with your brilliance every week. I’ve just changed the cover pic, just for that feel of something new.
Take it ahead in any manner you like – fiction, fantasy, poetry, essay, reflections or art.
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I woke up in 2021…….
And was totally disoriented
Loud bangs and fireworks were going on in the streets
Throngs of people celebrating the new year with joy and excitement
What was going on, and…
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