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Welcome back! The response last week was very encouraging. A personal thank-you to each one of you who found time, inspiration and effort to write, and dig into creativity.
PROMPT #155
Horror is a genre we haven’t touched in the Exploration Challenge prompts as yet. It may have figured in the responses, but not in the prompts.
I make an effort to conquer my own inhibitions and discomfort with horror.
Explore your psyche to see if you love something so short, or take a longer route to build up anticipation and fear.
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It is easy to give yourself a fright
To be afraid of your own shadow sometimes
Fear lives in all our minds and comes unbidden
A shape in the dark, a creak in the dead of the night
Awakens the horror, makes it come alive
A shivering shadow at the window makes you want to scream
It is just a piece of cloth blown by the wind
Turn on the light and you find the tapping was nothing more
Than the overhanging branches of the tree
Yet……
Sometimes you wonder if the dragging on the roof was
Just your imagination or is there some ghostly activity going on there?
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PROMPT #154
What you see below is neither an image prompt nor a theme.
I prefer to see it as a background on which you have to write something.
Do you see layers here, or is it just a two-dimensional image? Is something hiding out there, which you need to discover? Or something just pops into the mind as you see it one more time?
Let me see the creativity that pours out in the foreground.
I tried using a free word cloud generator for the first time, and found this.
IMAGES
I looked around for images that come close to the theme, and found these.
I invite you to apply your creativity, and come out with any form of expression – fiction, poetry, essay, song, art, photograph – absolutely anything that takes your fancy.
So, here you go ….
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Like a seed when sown in fertile soil
When an idea is embedded in my brain
It slowly takes roots and throws out a shoot
It needs a bit of prompting a little bit of probing
It blossoms into a full-fledged story or poem
Sometimes it amazes even me when it finds expression
In the words and nuances that I didn’t know that I possessed
What a remarkable thing the human mind is
Its uniqueness is undisputed, it’s perception amazing!
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Is it always me?
Use the words or the spirit of the line in your work – be it prose, poetry, a picture or work of art.
PROMPT #151
As usual, there is no restriction on length or format of the piece. interesting photographs are also welcome. Write a post on your blog, and copy-paste the link in Comments. In case you are using a pingback, do check back to see if it has worked.
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“It’s not you it’s me”
How many times you’ve said these words?
We lack the confidence we should have in ourselves
And then when things go south we blame our own selves
If we look pragmatically, we will realize
That we are not the center of the universe
All of us play an equal role in this tableau of life
Equal responsibility, an equal degree of messing up
It’s not always me, sometimes you are the cause too
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PROMPT #150
ILLUSIONS
Let it be a theme for the week’s writings. It may not necessarily be about privacy, but the various illusions we live under, and which actually make life bearable. Knowing too much would debilitate our sense of individualism, independence, achievement or glory. It is actually a happy bubble we live in.
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The prompt for this week is a sentence, no a thought, a question or whatever you may take it to be.
PROMPT #149
“How far does optimism go?”
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I think there are two types of people in the world;
Those who are optimistic and those who aren’t.
Optimism cannot be learned or acquired, you either have it in your personality or you don’t.
So for an optimist, there is no end to their optimism. They will continue to see things with rose-colored glasses on, regardless of the many disappointments they suffer in life. The clouds will have a silver lining for them and there will always be light at the end of the proverbial tunnel. Of course, they will have periods of time when this optimism will nosedive, but as is the case with most people suffering from optimism, the disease is incurable. So sooner or later, their hopes will start to build up high and they would start to look forward to good things happening again.
Never try to tell an optimist that things are bad and will continue to get worse. They won’t believe you. And that I think, is a good thing. For without optimism, we all would be immersed in gloom, thinking that the world is going to hell in a handbasket and everyone is doomed.
