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Poetry Prompted

Strawberries

by Trish / 20/01/2021

I would like to write like a strawberry. All bright red sweetness with stems that run all over when left to their own devices. Self starting, self seeding, self aware that they can be wild, even when tamed. There is nothing better than the best ones, when all factors combine, align and create something that seems both a miracle and inevitable.…

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Musings and reflection Prompted

Uplift

by Trish / 15/01/2021

I’m doing a puzzle that is mostly yellow on a floor that is mainly carpeted in a room that is far too dark for this sort of thing. But there needs to be something. Something needs to be happening because the alternative is not an option. I was distracted for hours after the call, I was lost in a numb place where I didn’t know what to do with myself because there is nothing that seems like enough to counterbalance…

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Musings and reflection Prompted

Superstition

by Trish / 12/01/2021

I wanted to write this as a story. I was so sure that was how it planned to show up. A fiction, woven with that familiar scent that tales ancient without being musty, tend to have. There is a universality to the fear that comes of doing it wrong, whether that is mixing up baking powder and soda while baking, or forgetting to cross your fingers when walking under a ladder in a cemetary on the 13th of Tuesday. We’ll…

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Musings and reflection Prompted Self-Realization

Once upon a time

by Trish / 05/01/2021

Once upon a time I was brave. I didn’t need help. I didn’t need prompts like this, because the words flowed fast and strong, without any effort beyond a hand holding a pen steady. And this is how fairy tales are born. Events that are half remembered with a fondness, a nostalgia and retold in such a way that they flatter the protagonist. I often speak of being unaware of when I stopped being brave, when I became afraid of…

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Musings and reflection Prompted

December 31 – The view from here

by Trish / 31/12/2020

From where I sit the light is fading, but the clouds obscure any definition of colour, so I will have to make my own in this, and likely other, moments. The sky is vast, the horizon broad, and I am grateful. My view has expanded, and with it, perspective that I can have the things I desire without losing myself or my integrity in the art of the level up. For so long I’ve carried this notion that in order…

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Musings and reflection Prompted

December 30 – Death

by Trish / 31/12/2020

A darkhaired pale lady with an ankh necklace. A skeleton in a cloak that he somehow manages to never tangle his scythe in.A tarot card signifying change.The end of a cycle. The end of a life. The end of a year. We don’t always get to choose when it happens, and I could just as easily be speaking of change as the end of a personal existence. I have this, in my mind, odd pragmatism about death. I say in…

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Musings and reflection Prompted

December 29 – Open Mind

by Trish / 30/12/2020

It gets difficult as time goes on. I’ve become cluttered with data, information I’ll never use, with no discernible benefit.It just takes up space. I envy my laptop, my junk drawer. Every so often I take the time, go through it and toss what is no longer necessary. Is it possible to do the same with one’s mind?To reset it back to a place where I have space for things that matter? Okay, there is a maddening amount of tabula…

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December 28 – Past, Present or Future

by Trish / 30/12/2020

The lights are restless tonight. That was yesterday. Tomorrow might be more of the same, but there is no way to know.…

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December 27 – Desire

by Trish / 30/12/2020

I was really expecting this to be about sex. Instead I’ve fallen down a cerebral rabbit hole of stoicism, and it’s perspective on desire. “Don’t dream about things you don’t have. Instead, think about the best things you now have and how much you would crave them if you didn’t have them. At the same time, don’t value them so much that you will be upset if you lose them.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations The suggestion is that the key…

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Fiction Musings and reflection Prompted

December 26 – Creation

by Trish / 28/12/2020

Everything has to start somewhere. I’m a fan of origin stories. I love to know where it all began, watch things unfold like a flower in the sunshine until we reach the pinnacle of showy bloom, see our protagonist arrive at a moment wherein our timelines cross and we are sitting across the table from them. There is a pleasing emptiness to beginnings, a place where anything is possible, there could be anything hidden under that uncarved block, waiting to…