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RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #217 Poison&Past
RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #217 Poison&Past
present affected
Forgetting impossible
The poisonous past
#Weekly Tanka Prompt #Poetry Challenge – Week 110 – Water & Thirst
#Weekly Tanka Prompt #Poetry Challenge – Week 110 – Water & Thirst
let
little thirst
and
little hunger
remain
to understand
the
real
meaning
and
value
of
food
and
water
Ismat Chughtai’s 107th birthday: Google Doodle salutes ‘grande dame of Urdu fiction’
Ismat Chughtai
Ismat Chughtai was an Indian Urdu language writer. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote on themes like female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective. Wikipedia
Chughtai was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1976 in recognition of her literary accomplishments. “In the 1980s and 1990s, a new generation of Indian writers picked up where Chughtai left off,” the Google Doodle statement points out. “Today, she continues to be regarded as a national feminist icon.”
Spouse: Shaheed Latif (m. 1941–1967)
More than 300 dead in indian Flood Disaster
The worst floods in a century in the Indian state of Kerala have so far killed over 300 p\neople and forced more than 200,000 into relief camps, officials say, with the toll expected to rise.
18/08/2018,TIMES OF LION,08:29 GMT
THE worst floods in a century in the Indian state of Kerala have so far killed over 300 pneople and forced more than 200,000 into relief camps, officials say, with the toll expected to rise.
As the southwestern coastal state’s chief minister sought military reinforcements to boost rescue efforts, a disaster management official said that, since the monsoon season started about three months ago, more than 320 people had died due to flooding and landslides.
As the waters have risen, many people have found it increasingly hard to access food and other basic amenities, or to reach safety.
Indian volunteers evacuate local residents in a boat at Kozhikode, in the Indian state of Kerala. Picture: AFPSource:AFP
The death toll from floods in India’s tourist hotspot is rising. Picture: AFPSource:AFP
During the current monsoon, Kerala has been hit with over a third more rain than…
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Weekend Writing Prompt #67 – Haphazard
Weekend Writing Prompt #67 – Haphazard
you
too systematic
I haphazard
both
tried to change
each other
result
I systematic
you
haphazard
let’s try again
Happy Anniversary with WordPress.com! You registered on WordPress.com 7 years ago. Thanks for flying with us. Keep up the good blogging.
Happy Anniversary with WordPress.com! You registered on WordPress.com 7 years ago. Thanks for flying with us. Keep up the good blogging.
Thanks a lot, to all WordPress team for reminding me. I started a new life with you. Learned so many things. made many virtual friends. Got the chance to read excellent posts. What’s more, I discovered myself. It’s a lovely feeling being with WordPress for so long. I’m really grateful for your help whenever I needed it.
A big thanks to all my blogger friends for encouraging me to continue for so long.
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 49
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 49
This week’s challenge: Your piece can be your piece – poem, story, anecdote, memory, quotation or anything else – whatever ghosts or monsters or gods it invokes inside you.
What is it that lives inside our bodies, and drives our actions? Is it a god, a monster or a ghost?
Are we all part of superconsciousness which allows us to differentiate between right or wrong?
Why our actions show the opposite?
Why some people go out of the way, leave their comfortable life and serve downtrodden going to live with them most inhumane life?
Why some people do the henious, gruesome crimes in spite of knowing the punishment they will get?
Does every person is fifty-fifty percent, side by side, the demon and an angel and the one who is nurtured most empowers us?
Long sessions
of meditations
satsang( company of pious people seeking truth)
introspection made believe that
all my inner conflicts have vanished
I have learned to control my anger, and peace and calmness dawned on me
I accepted that
God has given us so many ups and downs in life to make us tough
I realized that
All religions teach same virtues of love, compassion, kindness, harmony, and compatibility
Only some intolerant of follower spread hate and disturbance for their personal gain and power.
I understood completely that anger and greed are the biggest enemies
and empathy and forgiveness are our biggest friend and liberate us.
But…when I read about rapists, terrorists, and people who commit heinous crimes, through acid on others, oppress weak and poor
all thoughts of forgiveness evaporate
I wish I could make them stand in a line and shoot them
some people don’t deserve to live
Different Perspectives
It’s a great post. I feel inadequate to comment on this. Decide for yourself.
I came across an interesting article on ghosts today, as if on cue from the universe. I have done a slightly different version of an Erasure poem. The prose constitutes of excerpts taken from the source article, without disturbing the order of words or meaning. The poetry (in italics) has been added be me to lend perspective .
It is a prose and poetry sandwich.
DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
Jikisai Minami had thought about death since he was young, wondering how such a thing could possibly exist in the world, and obsessed by the idea that though he hadn’t ‘started’ himself, he nevertheless had to live with himself. He discovered the dead as what he calls ‘a very real presence’. ‘They really exist,’ he tells me, as we speak inside one of the temple buildings. ‘Just as powerfully as this table – sometimes even more so. It’s completely different from them existing…
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