Anxiety burnsan acidic devouring confidence impaled –mind wanders to childhood dreamsuncovers fear’s origin. (Tuesdays, I borrow from Twitter @Vjknutson. I came across this tanka written in May/21 that seemed to match with the image I recently posted on my other blog. I decided to pair them here.)
We wait at the station, Mother and I,one final stop for her – painless she prays;I busied at bedside – prolonged goodbye –memories and regrets filling our days. “We live too long,” she wearily proclaims“Why must suffering linger till the end?”I plea and bargain, call angelic names,yet the will to survive refuses to bend. The […]
There are mouse bitssplayed across the sunroomstuck to my favourite throw rug and great globs of glue The trap my husband setto catch the recent invasionapparently lured the hunterfor she, stiff legged andface matted, is skulkingelsewhere I stepped on a gluey biteyes not yet openbefore notingthe disarray Hard to concentratewhen a tail detachedfrom a thigh […]
https://demystifyingdestiny.wordpress.com/2018/09/24/crimson-hued-sky/
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Beautiful write.
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Mirror’s Truth – https://awisewomansjourney.wordpress.com/2019/10/12/mirrors-truth/
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Beautiful!
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Ken’s link is missing so I’m adding it here:
https://pictureswithoutfilm.wordpress.com/2019/10/12/as-far-as-you-can-see-v-j-s-weekly-challenge-67-sky/
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Love the insight!
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Breathtaking!
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https://joem18b.wordpress.com/2019/10/11/haiku-283/
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Welcome!
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Got me thinking once again. 🙂
http://oneletterup.com/2019/10/11/our-sky
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You do good work when you think!
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🙂 Thanks!
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Most welcome!
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Looking up for this one! https://phillipknightscott.com/2019/10/10/up-in-the-sky/
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Thanks for inspiring me to look up too!
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Thank you for the prompt. One’s coming your way.
https://timsmind390256655.wordpress.com/2019/10/09/so-the-day-began/
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Beautiful! Thanks for joining in.
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My first post on climate change. odaciuk.wordpress.com/2019/10/09/celestial-invitation/
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It is a good one!
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Beautiful!
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Here you go, V.J. – Methinks my previous comment was the wrong link if it went through. Here is my take on the prompt – https://amanpan.com/2019/10/08/above-and-beyond-2/
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Thanks for joining in Eugenia!
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Awesome, Eugenia!
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https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/blankness/
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Ripe with possibility!
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Wasn’t a completely stormy day then.
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I love this V.J.! I have spent time meditating on the clouds and they have spoken to me through many images they form! 😀 ❤
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Awesome!
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