I don’t like being scanned under microscopes being isolated in a petri-dish I steel my resolve to dump friends who need permission to go explore the world I embark on a journey they look perplexed, not happy with my pretty shape refuse to shake hands stare with suspicion hide themselves I empathise … Continue reading Isolation
breathing in, breathing out, just moving on thoughts expanding -from rivulets to sea can't remember what I stumbled upon meeting all, parting with some on the way listening to all, but my heartbeats' sound I worshipped the ocean, remained a bay all the songs I sung came just from a word maybe a syllable, or … Continue reading Journey of a song
It is the same place where they always meet. Misery is cooked and served with ladles. They like it, because they can always blame the other person for not getting it or choosing right. All said and done, it’s the only place they know of. They’ve never ventured beyond to check if there is another … Continue reading Secret recipes
Welcome back! PROMPT #126 Here is the theme for this week. ISOLATION As usual, there is no restriction on length or format of the piece. Write a post on your blog, and copy-paste the link here. If you are choosing a pingback, please check if it has worked. There have been instances of pingbacks not … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #126
Welcome to Women's Week! Do the rest of the weeks in a year do not belong to women? 🙂 They sure do, but I choose women and womanhood as the theme for this week's prompt. PROMPT #125 Reena's Exploration Challenge #125 The image and quotes are indicative, not restrictive. You have full freedom to write … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #125
babies turn in sleeprivers of love tear apartchallenged by East winds https://frankjtassone.com/2020/02/29/haikai-challenge-128-2-29-20-east-wind-kochi-haiku-senryu-haibun-tanka-haiga-renga/
Welcome back to another week! I had a tough time getting a pesky fly out of the house today. In the process, I came to admire her incorrigible optimism. Here’s a poem by Lisel Mueller IMMORTALITYIn Sleeping Beauty’s castlethe clock strikes one hundred yearsand the girl in the tower returns to the world.So do the … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #124
And so here we go – 1,2,3 …. into another week of the Exploration Challenge. Welcome back! PROMPT #123 Use or don’t use one or more of the following oxymorons in your piece silent screamopen secretdisgustingly deliciousawfully luckyunbiased opinion You may choose not to use the word, but let the meaning reflect in your piece. … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #123
“I’ll trust your judgement. A woman has superior intuition.” “We’ve peddled this theory for long. Actually, it is about a capability for lateral vision, something that men don’t have. We capture fleeting expressions in a nano-second, and it gives clues to the person’s psyche.” “I should be careful with my expressions, when I’m around a … Continue reading A Writer is Born
Reena's Exploration Challenge #122 Time flies. We are already in the seventh week of 2020. I've been spending time with houseguests, battling network failures after 9 pm, working weekeneds, travelling and taking compulsive blogging breaks. Welcome to the roller coaster ride with me! I find my creativity getting dimmed at times, but the desire to … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #122
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