Day: June 19, 2021

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS June 19, 2021

~ thereluctantpoet

Is it really Friday already? Really? I guess if it is, I’d better pull my socks up and give you your Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt. (See what I did there? Socks? … Never mind.) Here’s your prompt for this week:

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “hat/het/hit/hot/hut.” Choose one, choose ’em all, put ’em in your post. Enjoy!

After you’ve written your Saturday post tomorrow, please link it here to this week’s prompt page and check to make sure it’s here in the comments so others can find it and see your awesome Stream of Consciousness post. Anyone can join in!

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She is Born Free

~ thereluctantpoet

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Hold that thought a moment long, take a few extra moments before you commit, for you may not realize, she is born free, without shackles, barriers and impediments

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Poetry Published in the Annual Issue of Tulsa Review, Spring 2021, Issue 8

~ thereluctantpoet

Megha's World

I’m excited to see my poem “Lonely Night” published in the Litearay and Arts Journal , Tulsa Review. Tulsa Review is an Lit and Arts Journal curated by the staff and students of the Tulsa Community College, Okhlahoma. I’m grateful to the staff and students of the TCC for bringing this gorgeous issue to fruition.

You can view the online version of the Tulsa Review Spring Issue here . My poem is listed on the pg.38.

Tulsa Reviewis an online journal of the literary and creative arts based at Tulsa Community College. The first issue was published in 2014.Each issue ofTulsa Review is produced by a staff of student editors, with the guidance of a faculty advisor. The student editors are responsible for selecting submissions for publication. Tulsa Reviewis published once a year, in April. Submissions are accepted year-round, publication decisions are made in the…

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Conveyed

~ thereluctantpoet

Ray

A message I send to the person I once loved,

There were no butterflies in my womb.

A flesh he said was living in it,

Even its heartbeat felt my part.

Crying at the love I sensed looking in his eyes,

Little did I knew love exists only in pictures.

Why did he make me sleep in those ashes?

Was I not enough?

One day the flesh will unravel its face,

I won’t catch sight of you from then,

I’ll see your mythical love in its eyes,

Then one you never felt but conveyed.

I’ll love him for real, I assure,

There is no need to worry,

I can’t express affection for somebody essence.

-Riya Shah

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“Pointless” – Nayana Nair

~ thereluctantpoet

it rains in my heart

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I have prayed for something
that will never be granted.

I have decided
never to be happy with anything else but that,

no one else but you,
no other life but the one I vowed to live without.

I have decided to suffer pointlessly.
It suits me well, this punishment.

It suits me well, this path
that goes back to all the beautiful places,

all the innocent people and feelings that
I starved and hurt for the sake of an easy life.

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