The perplexed prospective

The perplexed prospective …. by Aishwarya

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Retrospective cosmos*,

With sanguinity in stead,

Dares to lay hands on,

Oh so! Delicate strings of gossamer,

Aware of its tenacious inward strength,

Albeit fragile outward deceptiveness,

These layers of maze it well knows.

Oft a muddle of incomprehension,

The perplexed prospective,

Gleaning for cues,

Anxious as much to mess with a mighty lair,

As to tickle a touch me not shrub,

Refrainment would be its approach,

Treading on ice, is that how it’d be?

75 words.

Cosmos * :- Here, cosmos can be interpreted as universe as a whole or a train of thought.

Thoughts :- Always an easy task to work backwards than forwards, retrospect has an edge, undoubtedly. Thrill, nevertheless lies in unfolding layers of unknown.

Acknowledgements :- Thank you Reena Saxena for running the Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 154. The challenge is to use the above picture as a prompt for…

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Crystal Ball

silent crystal ballstread unfamiliar terrains-vocal undergroundsexpressions of sufferingrewrite stories in dark skies https://colleenchesebro.com/2020/09/29/colleens-2020-weekly-tanka-tuesday-poetry-challenge-no-197-specificform-tanka/ https://amanpan.com/2020/09/28/eugis-weekly-prompt-crystal-ball-september-28-2020/

Shedding

You believe you shine with borrowed light. The Sun knows it clothes you, but also conceals beauty of the original. Poets are busy giving you different names to facilitate expression of the complex. You do find courage to shed clothes, but your identity remains enmeshed in nomenclature. You are just the Moon … let adjectives … Continue reading Shedding

Sandcastles

I build castles in the sand with footprints of the past traversing roads roads in time which did not live up to promises of childhood yet, the castles are intact…. A strange creature turns in sleep dreams of the castles he will build over mine and unleash a new era ruled by what I called … Continue reading Sandcastles

The cat and the drawer

The cat and the drawer ….. by Shilpa Nairy

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“Daddy…….. Daddy…….”

“Did you see it again, baby?”

She hugged him tightly and said, “Yes, dad. Again same black cat pulled my quilt, jumped over the table and scratching the drawer”.

“Sleep, my dear. All will be fine”

“You are saying the same from last ten years. I want to know what’s in the drawer, who has locked it. Where is the key?”

“I swear, I don’t have the key. I tried to open it by all means but its not”

She cried and pulled her bedsheet. Numerous thoughts, questions were weaving the web in mind and struggling to come out of it. She had become the cocoon within it from many years and want to come out from it resolving it and emerging into a new life.

She put her all positive thoughts and woke up in the morning in search of the answer. She digs the toolbox to…

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Lonely Planets

Lonely Planets …. By Len

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Responding to Reena’s Exploration Challenge #154 based on above image. https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2020/09/24/reenas-exploration-challenge-154/

We are 7.8 billion lonely planetary bodies, circling each other, affected by gravity, pushing and pulling against each other to stay on course. We are 7.8 billion separate ecosystems, struggling to co-exist, trying to make sense of our environment, attentive to our own needs, less so to others. We are 7.8 billion conscious beings, waiting to be fully aware. waiting for our potential to take root and grow.

Discard your blinkers, look around, open your eyes and view the beauty of this planet and its people. Notice the person next to you, touch the person next to you, reach out to the person next to you. Be it family, friend, neighbor or stranger. Stop listening to the news with its distorted, slanted bias towards the worst of human nature. Feed your mind with poetry, noble stories, tales of heroism…

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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #154

Indira’s take on Exploration Challenge #154

Indira's avatarSharing Thoughts

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #154

PROMPT #154

What you see below is neither an image prompt nor a theme.

I prefer to see it as a background on which you have to write something.

cobweb of evil
alluring glitterati 
point of no return
beware, naive aspirants,
glitters can be deceptive

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The deep, dark web

The deep, dark web …….. by Shweta Suresh

Shweta's avatarMy Random Ramblings

Life might seem simple
But it's anything but!
Memories, people, experiences.
emotions, successes, failures,
and so much more..
woven into an intricate web
Too complicated to escape from,
Too messy to make sense of,
Too deep to fully understand,
Too sticky at times
to navigate through.
As we pick up new tricks,
The web gets trickier.
We struggle and keep fighting
Unraveling one puzzle after another.
We struggle to pave our way
through the one-way ticket…
the journey from birth to death.

This post was written in response to Reena’s Exploration Challenge #154. The challenge for this week was to “to see it as a background on which you have to write something.”

I interpreted that as a prompt leads you and publish a post on your own blog that responds to the prompt. Click on the link to know more about this challenge and to read the entries…

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Remain Steadfast

Remain steadfast ….. by VJ Knutson

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Illusory this ideation of separation
intricate the webs that bind us

Politicians focus on the holes
pander to the vacuous –

Seekers resonate with connection
consciousness raising awareness

Remain steadfast protestors
your vibrations wide-reaching.

(submitted for Reena’s Exploration challenge: prompt the featured image.)

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