Forward movement

My mother talks non-stop at the dining table. The stories she recounts ad nauseam can start from the 1950s. I’ve heard different versions of the same incident umpteen times, and know how people and stories change inside one’s head. I look around a little more and find this to be a widespread disease with people … Continue reading Forward movement

Paintings – Poetry – Quotation – Tuesday’s Round-up Read and View – Selected by Goff James — Art, Photography and Poetry

Painting 1 Attribution © Jane Small, Morning Dew, (Date Unstated) Source Attribution https://fineartamerica.com/featured/morning-dew-jane-small.html Haiku, Micro Poetry & Senryū Attribution © Goff James, Moss on Stones, Today’s Music Plays, Letting Go, Sharing the Moment, Lost in Night Copyright (c) 2021 Goff James – All Rights Reserved  More haiku poems by Goff James More Micro Poetry by Goff James […]Paintings … Continue reading Paintings – Poetry – Quotation – Tuesday’s Round-up Read and View – Selected by Goff James — Art, Photography and Poetry

Carefully structured

The organization structure is carefully built. There are special slots for the favoured ones, deliberate spaces between some so that the connections are not too obvious. They need to control it from all sides – ensuring that followers stay on a predetermined path, managing dissent, building intelligence networks to know what’s happening on the ground. … Continue reading Carefully structured

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #135

Reena's Exploration Challenge #135 Exploration Challenge #134 brought in interesting perspectives for me. Reading about cosiness of a home made me question my own mental alignment. Am I the only one who sees the bleakness or starkness of the surroundings? Am I the only one afraid of getting lost in those environs? Am I the … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #135

Fascinated

I click on an ex-colleague’s Instagram post, and she appears in my dreams that night – a long-lost associate I’ve not been thinking about lately. Stirred memories? A person who stabbed me in the back and earned my hatred appears in dreams – asking for forgiveness or trying to mend fences. Is that a subconscious … Continue reading Fascinated

Unbridgeable

others-centredness desire to communicate need for approval internal compass astray gaps with self -- unbridgeable     can I take a break? a space to be just myself touch deep truths within then find a ground to connect with you- but on my own terms   I look for your core untouched by imposed wisdom … Continue reading Unbridgeable

Re-live

give some time to thaw-a still heart fibrosed in snow wants to beat againlet it feel the blood rushingthrough ages of callousness https://colleenchesebro.com/2019/10/01/colleens-2019-weekly-tanka-tuesday-poetry-challenge-no-147-poetschoice/ https://colleenchesebro.com/2019/10/01/colleens-2019-weekly-tanka-tuesday-poetry-challenge-no-147-poetschoice/

Drawing boards

creativity efficiency – are they different domains? I look at this magnificent concrete structure and think the architect has done a wonderful job. There were hundreds of people to support –civil engineers, technicians and labourers who implemented the architect’s ideas. Where does the creativity lie? It must have taken some imagination to put the bricks … Continue reading Drawing boards