Michael is the host of Tale Weaver

This week, write a response in which you discuss the notion of a ‘New Start’.

Go where the prompt leads you, I look forward to reading where you go with this prompt. Have fun.

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Let’s start again

It is time for a do-over

Bin all previous efforts

Discard all the attempts

Make a fresh beginning and

Let it be the first, the best, the last

Let us succeed in our latest effort

Let our endeavors be selfless and honest

Let’s us all work together to make this place

A perfect home, fit for all

A paradise on earth

Let’s start afresh!

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The ticket stub lay on the road, forgotten

It blew with the air here and there

The journey that it represented was over

Another day had gone and the night was looming

Tomorrow she would buy another ticket

To ride the metro all day long

No destination was planned just the ride was the aim

What could a homeless person do when there wasn’t

A place to live, a place to eat or sleep even

Here at least she could sit, get protected from elements

The hot days, cold nights, rain-drenched streets

She wasn’t alone, there were many of them

Seeking some refuge from the circumstances that

Life had pushed them into unwillingly, unprepared

( During my stay in Seattle, I find it heartbreaking to see so many homeless people wandering the streets, riding the buses all day long, and sleeping in the streets. And this is one of the prosperous cities of the USA!)

The Prompt;

This week write your response to the word ‘Tickets’.

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Michael is the host of Tale Weaver

This week our topic is ‘Protest’. We have seen a lot on our news services about protests in the past few weeks.

What is your take on it?

Have you been involved in a protest?

Were you a part of a recent protest?

Write a story reflecting your response to this prompt.

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If you are born in privilege, you can never understand the need to protest

Unless you step into the shoes of those who are living lives

Crushed by the burden they carry of being considered unequal

Of being looked down on and of the constant slurs cast on them

Then you might get an inkling of their lot in this lopsided world

That has been created by those with privilege for their pleasure

What good is a protest you ask without seeing into the eyes of victims

How does it solve the problems, is your unsympathetic response

I will tell you the reason they are standing in blazing sun or in pouring rain

They want you to see them and see the pain in their tear-drenched eyes

They want to wake your soul from its apathetic slumber

Wake up and look

See and feel the injustice

Stand with them and protest with them

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Dirty Windows are a fact of life. Some windows we constantly clean and some we don’t.

Write this week your response to what you might see through your windows, perhaps the unclean and then the clean.

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There is a layer of dust and grime

Covering the once pristine surfaces

I look through these grimy windows

And all I can see is dirt and ugliness

It is the fault of all the accumulated dirt

That my view is obscured and distorted

It would take some effort and labor

To wash out the grime of ages and clean

The glass through which I see and observe the world

But without this effort, I am stuck behind

This grime laden view, much like the bias

That some people wear over their minds

The blinkers which stop them from seeing

That we all are equal, we all are important

That grime and this dirt both are optional

Both can be rid of, with a bit of hard work and thought

(Borrowed from a friend’s Facebook page)

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