Day: February 13, 2020
Angels
Angels:
They slow you down when you’re rushing.
They hold you tightly even when you’re not asking.
They fill your life with warmth and laughter.
They teach you to love a little deeper,
And to open up a little more.
As their light embraces you,
It could last for a tiny moment,
But in a world full of darkness,
These moments could last a lifetime.
©ZeinaA.G
Sunday Photo Fiction – Feb 9 2020
Photo Credit Morguefile
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Spending hours in the library
Learning all the principles of law
Pouring over heavy tomes, dusty and ancient
All in an endeavor to gain the understanding
Of the cleaver ways to manipulate and circumvent
The laws they promise to uphold and protect!
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#Keepitalive
#SPF
The Next Beatles Song, by Mark Tulin
I keep waiting for the next Beatles song
sitting by the radio in my psychedelic
bedroom.
I know if I hear it first,
it will be groovy
and I’ll be totally in awe.
I know they broke up
fifty years ago,
but I still wait to hear
their shaggy-haired truth
that will send my rubber soul
bouncing into enlightenment.
Perhaps, when that day occurs,
I’ll wear my new bell bottoms
and desert boots to school,
seeing my old hippie friends
holding finely-rolled joints with legs crossed
on the schoolyard lawn.
I will greet my pals with a peace sign
to show how cool I am
and share my love of vinyl,
the Beatles,
and their brand new album
that would turn my life upside down.
“You’re born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.”
You’re born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.
The 2020 Daily Writing Challenge – February 11
Writing is like driving at night in the fog.
You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
– E. L. Doctorow
Today is Day 42 of the 2020 Daily Writing Challenge.
Did you write yesterday? If you didn’t, what stopped you? Self-doubt can leave you feeling like a deer in the headlights, petrified, off-balance, and powerless. Instead of using your precious minutes to type even a handful of words on the page, you allow yourself to be distracted.
Perhaps you stare at a blank screen, convinced your work recounts an incoherent trip along a winding road leading you nowhere. Your vivid imagination has forsaken you, leaving you in a void of uninspired darkness. You suspect you are a fraud who will never be good enough.
Breathe. Think about the adventure you want your audience to experience, explore your plot, meet…
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Pulling The Plug
Are We Ever Prepared?
Are we ever prepared for the masks?
That fall off people’s faces when least expected.
Are we ever prepared to face the things that haunt us?
To mourn the pieces of ourselves that will never return,
And then to openly embrace them.
Are we ever prepared for our lives to fall apart?
To end up in places we never imagined we’d be.
Are we ever prepared to move forward?
Even it means walking alone.
Are we ever prepared to keep reminding ourselves of the lessons we’ve learned?
To have enough faith to keep starting over,
Andtoleave some spacefor unexpected strength to come through.
Daily Prompts- Gains and losses
I am thinking
What do we gain
And what do we lose
How we calculate the net profit
A riddle that can be hard to solve
Man lives and dies, no eternity to spend
A short time by all accounts we’ve here
The crux of this enigma lies at the heart
Of the way we use the time granted to us
Life is circular, each birth connected to death
Every new day is born of the demise of yesterday
Many a moment wasted in our search
To find the true purpose of the gift called life
Why not take every opportunity offered
Use it in a way that your soul rejoices
And your spirits soar with the happiness of
Being kind
Being good
And best of all
Helping all creatures
Big or small, to find their own happiness
In response to the following prompts;
YDWP;
3TC;
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The Reluctant Poet 