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THIS WEEK’S WORDS come from “In the Fourth of July Parade” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: middle, braids, back, times, grace, swimming, bliss, simple, make, gate, joy, parade

Swimming in the unknown
With grace to fight what’s there
Number of times to err
Simple just to bemoan
Such joy if we are shown
We could make it I swear

Parade of challenges
Don’t go back but face it
Such bliss we’re to admit
Fight one so challenging
Even with damages
Go on and never quit

As we open the gate
So proud and feeling great*

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* The HexSonnetta, created by Andrea Dietrich, consists of two six-line stanzas and a finishing rhyming couplet with the following set of rules:

Meter: Iambic Trimeter
Rhyme Scheme: a/bb/aa/b c/dd/cc/d ee

For: Reena’s Exploration Challenge #144,  Whirligig 273

suturing smashed souls

with strings spun from heart matter

~ surgical breakthrough

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Mindfills for

FOWC matter

Reena’s exploration challenge – breakthrough

Cee’s FOTD

What will it take to breach the wall?
Allow yourself a diff’rent view?
Consider I’m the same as you?
You must or else we all will fall.

A virus scourge that beats them all
Is out to slay and hack and hew
What will it take to breach the wall?
Allow yourself a diff’rent view?

We must not fall to one so small
Please wear a mask as all must do
Until nineteen’s in our rearview
Or face our specie’s last death squall
What will it take to breach the wall?

Today’s offering is in the form of a rondel, which is A French form consisting of 13 lines: two quatrains and a quintet, rhyming as follows: ABba abAB abbaA. The capital letters are the refrains, or repeats.

Reena Saxena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge.  Reena says:
In this week, I invite you to explore a…

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Trapped in the abyss of void

consumed by darkness

walking on a tightrope

vacillant steps

the fall inevitable.

Timely intervention

oodles of patience

prodding, gentle unmasking

comforting reassurances

demystifying obscurity.

Finally, a visage of hope

monstrous mind slayed

purpose refocused

perseverance paid off

life saved.

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #144 : Breakthrough

Stressful lifestyle is one of the major factors that cause an emotional imbalance in people today, leading to many mental health challenges, depression being one of them. It is extremely important to identify this issue and provide timely intervention and counseling to such patients, in the absence of which it may lead to suicidal tendencies too.

Reenais the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge

Welcome back to a still locked-down world!

PROMPT #144

In this week, I invite you to explore a single word

BREAKTHROUGH

What does it mean to you? Have you experienced it before? How do you expect it to happen?

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We are all waiting for a medical breakthrough!

They, the scientists will tell us triumphantly that a cure for this new disease has been discovered. Or a preventative vaccine has been developed. Now it will be safe to live our lives as we did previously.

But till that happens, and it will, I have no doubt, we need to set a few things straight.

• Prevention is always better than a cure

• Taking all due care and caution is not a sign of weakness

• If by using a bit of common sense we can avoid pain and misery, then…

If I should find this my last day
Looking back on my work and play
Life is the place where joy and sorrow meet
A roller coaster ride of ups and downs.

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Struggles, pain, and joys abound
Making me stronger // standing my ground;
Becoming the man who bears my name.
The image of my creator reflected in my face;
Not perfect // but full of love and amazing grace…
A shadow of the divine embracing a much better place.

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Life goes on be it here or there…
In our children // in their children
His face is everywhere;
Reflections of love immeasurable power…
Strength for today and hope for each hour
Passing on down through the thread of life
So fragile // so dear // so full of strife

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If this were to be my last day,
With sorrow’s leaving I would surely say,
“I’m not…