Complexity

Harvey is a best-selling author who never reads his own books. The interviewer looks perplexed in this episode of his show “Straight Talk with Genius Minds”. “Sir, do you never feel the need to review what you wrote?” “No, I simplify things as much as possible for the new age readers. But that is not … Continue reading Complexity

Circular pathways

goals and targets lose sense of direction surrounded by circular pathways entangled links, mutual vested interests lines are non-existent, walls get blurred fluidity facilitates life ships find anchors amidst choppy seas sails set in direction of winds, not shores what is here, can be there tomorrow home is where a wandering heart lies no strategy … Continue reading Circular pathways

Erasure Poetry – Blues

  edges and depths of the spectrum disperses molecules of the air scatters in water.   The sky is blue is a deeper, dreamier, melancholy blue gets lost gives us the beauty of the world   color of distance color of emotion color of solitude color of where you are not color of where you … Continue reading Erasure Poetry – Blues

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 41

Welcome to Week 41! We are dabbling with Erasure Poetry this week – call it White Out or Black Out as you please. Erasure is a form of found poetry or found object art created by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and framing the result on the page as a poem.[1] The results can be allowed to stand in situ or they can … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 41

Frameworks

visual transformation through colors dispel myths of a static world   minds mirror nature framing reflections perceptions float like clouds on mental horizons   states of being rigid to flexible is a strategy taught for wordless survival   dark frameworks are misleading focus on changing colors which constitute life   Thursday Photo Prompt by Sue … Continue reading Frameworks

Floating Stories

“I hope my son is able to repay the student loan.” The mother prays, so does the banker. life develops in dark spaces between colors of hope “Congratulations, buddy! You deserved it, after all the midnight oil burnt.” sleepless nights dotted with nightmares in waking eyes I crawled through life in tunnels of uncertainty emerged … Continue reading Floating Stories

Optimism

happily ever after or till death takes us?   Optimism of irrationally positive brains colors of sunrise smells of spring blossoming of buds reincarnations give us cause sufficient to live.   I am no Phoenix I know life is a one-way street yet … I plan, I dream there are no alternatives hope is nothing … Continue reading Optimism

Diaries

The sleuth had never read a whole book in many years, and this was a series. But it held important clues to the investigation into the dead man’s life. He took time to read a little every day, till he started seeing shadows of his own self on the pages. Who was this abandoned child … Continue reading Diaries

Watch your thoughts…

I was taught that it takes minimum 40 days to internalize a new habit, or for a change to get rooted in the system. Maybe it is an approximation, but what happens when I need changes in different directions. Which one do I focus on first? Is there something like a debt consolidation program to … Continue reading Watch your thoughts…

Flash of a second

It is not a safe hour for a woman to be walking alone. Perhaps, she worked in graveyard shifts, and is used to the shadowy figures lurking outside. I am curious, but resist the temptation of talking. She is busy with her phone. I see her gesticulating wildly, asking me to get out. I do … Continue reading Flash of a second