“I’ve been here before.” “Are you crazy? You have not travelled alone, and we’ve got you here for the first time,” hissed the mother to her teenage daughter. “There is a brown trunk in the last room. There are gold coins and jewels in that.” We walked ahead to check. There was a trunk, but … Continue reading Thresholds
thedarknetizen explores different dimensions of war and victory in this hilarious piece ...
A woman’s journey to her matrimonial home …. elucidated by Indira
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #92
Prompt
Marriages are made in heaven
Her cooking was no match for the culinary talent on the potluck table. Embarrassed, she tried to pull out the white bowl and hide it somewhere. An interested pair of eyes met her gaze, as the strong, masculine hands took the bowl from her hand, “Hey, what do you have there?” A decade later, they … Continue reading Potluck
The star of yesteryears walks into a movie theatre, breaths in the ambience for three hours and walks out – unrecognized. He has done a cameo in the latest release. Box-office collections and publicity campaigns have gone digital. He doesn’t even have a social media account. He was uncomfortable about participating in promos. An artist … Continue reading Stardust
suffused with slow warmth inner glaciers start melting whole being renewed https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2019/06/26/heeding-haiku-with-chevrefeuille-june-26th-2019-sun-bathing/
Laura Bloomsbury challenges us to match styles with Laurie Lee…
I’m a sucker for synchronicity and having chosen to focus on this particular poet, a timely connection with his birthdate (26.6.1914) and today’s Poetics challenge became apparent.
As with most of my favourite naturalist poets, Laurie Lee employed description with the light touch of lyricism, devoid of complex structures or the aggrandisement of the Romantics. In fact in answer to his critic Roy Fuller, his riposte was: ‘You dare me to be more complicated, but I dare to achieve simplicity’.
And he succeeds too – take for example his Christmas Landscape:
“There is hunger in the mouth
Of vole and badger,
Silver agonies of breath
In the nostril of the fox,
Ice on the rabbit’s paw”
True, Lee was a Neo-Romantic willing at times to sacrifice meaning for the mellifluous (though not to the extent that Dylan Thomas does). After all, he was musician too and hence…
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Inspiring prose “Darkness came, full of moths and beetles. I was oppressed by the velvety emptiness of the word and swathes of soft grass. Then the fumes of the night put me to sleep” (As I walked out one Midsummer morning) Poem claustrophobic darkness not-s0-romantic a night prickly, sick dreams make me long for light … Continue reading Horrors of the night
This is not an original. I'm sharing a beautiful piece by Rob Brezsny here in response to https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2019/06/20/reenas-exploration-challenge-92/ Maybe you rarely celebrate the fact that you can think, but according to my inside sources, the flash of mercurial codes through your brain is among the universe's most dazzling accomplishments. Try to imagine the colossal divine … Continue reading Crossover
they swim with tides for the day’s catch get rich with schemes not all humane they hold secrets they nurture bonds they protect their kind ignorance they feign we intellectuals in ivory castles just- look down with disdain the world conquered – so what we give it to them sky and earth meet … Continue reading Give it to them
