Reena’s Xploration Challenge #392

Welcome back! PROMPT #392 We have a one-minute video in this week to serve as a writing prompt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB7z3ZvaEyw You may choose to write your own story or that of a protagonist, but with a FUTURE PROJECTION. We are not looking at autobiographies depicting the past, but how one sees oneself in the future. The … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #392

Disappearance

“I’m not a patch on him”, said our favourite professor about his media baron brother. It saddened us to see someone we worshipped as the epitome of intelligence and confidence reveal a different side. Decades later, the alumni of the college reunite, and we embark on an online quest for our idol.   To our … Continue reading Disappearance

Power Play

They are such a boonThey will sway to your tune Let teachers mingle with the taughtLet them align with your thoughtsWalk with them, but trust them notPromise them the stars, sun and moon They are such a boonThey will sway to your tune Divergence in a chorus is crimeThey don’t have to speak, just mimeFeed … Continue reading Power Play

End of a Patriarch

regrets flowmirror reflectionsshed dark tearssilentlyimperceptible, afraidunconfessed sorrow a tree fallsroots withdraw supportearthquakes wantvictimspeakperpetrators of pain gounnoticed, unmourned Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge

Addressing Human Fear

Shed fears like you shed clothes. I’m compelled to be a sharkto protect myself from a whaleand nibble on baby crocodilesThey swallow smaller fish;Their bellies are notwhere I want to be We sail in the same boatof self-defence Quadrille at dVerse

Walk-through

I walked through -gardens overladen with Hopewithering away;as Reality thunder struck -centuries of silenceWhen wisdom allowedpower to grow amok -cities of helplessnesswith handcuffed righteousnessrotting in jails that suck -lifetimes of evolutionof a mute soulwith feathers plucked I passed throughlight years of territoriesstill no compass caught my luck What Do You See #299

Forward movement

celebrations of existencereminders of eventspast calls on whose logical insistencewhich cause led to effectsrise, falls clutches of guilt, mind's resistancecontradict freedom factsstand tall hold pure joy; let go of distanceencourage soul connectslife's scrawl MTB at dVerse

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #391

Writing Prompts

Welcome back! PROMPT #391 We have a quote to serve as a writing prompt for you in this week. Truth rarely knocks—it slips in through the cracks you forgot to seal. There is no restriction on the length or format of the piece. There is no last date unless you wish to be featured in … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #391

Chaos to Clarity

I spent a lifetime tracing fractals of thought, not clarity. Chaos was a part of me, as familiar as my name. I embraced its unpredictability, found comfort in its disorder, never once questioning where it would lead. Then, a moment, not loud, not grand, just a hush that rearranged the air. Clarity arrived like a … Continue reading Chaos to Clarity

Paula – Fandango’s Story Starter

The septuagenarian flinches if someone brushes against her in a crowd. She draws herself in on seeing vagabonds in an isolated place, and it is not always the loss of her wallet that she fears.  Paula convinces herself these youngsters won’t go beyond making demeaning remarks about the old granny that she is, and forges … Continue reading Paula – Fandango’s Story Starter