Conversant

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My journey ends here
Not conversant what lies beyond
Hope nothing dreadful

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #112- Pause/ ठहराव

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #112

WRITING PROMPT 112

This week you can choose one or more from a set of 10 words/phrases, to kick start your thought process. Let us see where the journey takes you. The comments often offer different perspectives and start another thread of creativity. Find time to read those and interact with other writers.

Here are the options….

1. pockets of stillness
2. question your maps
3. cynical assertions
4. lost alphabet
5. was that really me?
6. crumbling thoughts
7. undulating patterns
8. free-flowing bonds
9. pregnant pause
10. potential of emptiness

Pockets of Stillness

जिंदगी दौड़ रही

बेरोक बेलगाम सी 

कभी कभी इसमें 

विश्राम होना चाहिए
जिंदगी कटी यहाँ 

वहां घूम घूम के
अब तो कोई 

पड़ाव होना चाहिए
बदला ना खुद को कभी 

अपनी ही जिद में जिए
अब तो व्यवहार में 

बदलाव  होना चाहिए  

बचपन में खेले खूब  

जवानी में भटक लिए
बुढ़ापे में थोड़ा  

ठहराव होना चाहिए

~Indira

 

It is so much more rewarding to understand than to feel right, even if that means changing your mind about a subject, an ideology, a person and even yourself. — Maria Popova 

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #96

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #96

The two sentences for the prompt this week are fairly simple, and yet not so simple.

This is where I lost myself

This is where I found myself

————————————————————————————————————————-

Unconsciously

I entered the forest

as if in a haze

in a haste

to explore as much as I can

quickly

and in the process

got lost

There is so much to get lost

In the forest called life

I was unprepared

Didn’t know the jungle rules

When panic subsides

Calmness takes over

I turn back

I find

The way to go back is the same

which brought me here

the same will

take me to where I have started

Time wasted 

or 

Lessons learned

To find

I have to start  again

but this time

with consciousness

Quaint Lover

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #72

prompt

Quaint Lover

go 

grow

fly in the sky

explore the world

don’t hang onto me

I’m rooted 

immobile

 you have wings to fly

don’t look at me

with sad eyes

I’m bad with goodbyes

but promise to me

When you are tired

your wings weak

feel lonely 

and  undesired 

come back to me

I’ll always be there 

waiting for thee

rest in my arms 

I’ll sing a lullaby

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #232 Foot&Mouth

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #232 Foot&Mouth

Haiku- Foot, mouth

My foot in my mouth

Carol, I meant said parole

Instead, I wanna hide

 

 

 

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #229 Win&Lose

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #229 Win&Lose

Sometimes you lose but

win, sometimes you win but lose

In the game of love

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #228 Future&Hope

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #228 Future&Hope

Everyone hopes for

A bright and peaceful future

Plant the seed today

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #214 Lack&Fool

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #214 Lack&Fool

Just like a fool 

Without knowing swimming

Jumped in the lake  

(Does a Haiku needs to have exactly 17 syllables? Haiku doesn’t have to have 17 syllables. That “rule” is based on something that makes sense in Japanese, not so much in English.  )

Reena’s Exploration Challenge – Week 47

Reena’s Exploration Challenge – Week

(Choose any one quote, choose both or add your own to make sense of it.The format can be  a story/poem/rant/anecdotes/journalistic coverage of events/ reflections/history/geography/memory as usual.  No word or time limits.)

Even a cell matters

When functions well

Life secure

But when it rebels

Life obscure

क्यों बताना पड़ता है हमेशा 

इस  सृष्टि में 

सबकी एक जगह है 

सब की एक अहमियत है 

सबकी एक भूमिका है 

क्यों समझाना पड़ता  है हर बार 

नारी तो 

हमेशा से वहीँ  है 

जहाँ उसे  होना चाहिए 

न नर के आगे न पीछे 

न ऊपर न नीचे 

बस बराबरी में

उसे तो कभी भी महान बनने की चाहत न थी 

नर ही हमेशा  ऊंचा बनने की होड़ में  लगा   रहा 

उसे अपना प्रतिद्वंदी समझ 

नीचे दिखने की कोशिश में लगा रहा 

महान बनने के रास्ते तो और भी थे

जो चले  वो देवता बन गए 

जो नहीं समझ पाए , उन्होंने 

नारी को नीचा  दिखाने की कोशिश में 

खुद से कमजोर जताने  की ख्वाहिश में 

खुद को महान  दिखाने की चाहत में 

उस  पर बलात्कार और जुर्म कर 

खुद को ही नीचा गिरा कर 

उसे स्वतः ही  उपर  उठा दिया 

Haiku -Dark

Haiku Horizons prompt “dark”

The dark side of life

Everyone hides from the world

Eyes feign innocence