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at purple twilight
red lights coming on inside
similar houses
~cie~
Write an "active" poem.
It may not be active in an obvious way, but the (alien) world described in this Senryu is alive and active.
Today's prompt asked us to choose a photograph shared by the Space Liminal Bot. (http://twitter.com/SpaceLiminalBot). I chose the image above.
This is one reason that I tend to get defensive when people react with horrified surprise to my revelations regarding my relationship with myself. You don't experience life the way I do or have the same struggles with yourself that I do? Great. But don't go acting like I'm bad or defective for feeling as I do, or having experienced life the way I have. How would you like it if someone did that to you?
Imma dedicate this poem to Prince because he loved purple and because he was kind of an alien, but he made it work. I'm still working on the "make it work" part.
~Ornery Owl Out~
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A very vivid haiku! Your back story made me pause and contemplate myself at 16, and at various other long-ago stages of my life. I too was a different person then from now; I would think that must be the same for us all. Though I like what you said, that 'we share the same soul and her experiences shaped me', which is clearly true too. (I don't dislike my old selves – I mean young selves! – so much as feel sorry for them, for their limitations.)
ReplyDeleteI have a little more sympathy for my younger self than I used to. Granted, she was a moron, but she was a broken moron. People who have undergone trauma tend to behave illogically, particularly if they blame themselves for said trauma.
DeleteCie, your "purple twilight" is sooo cool!! This is a nice little Senyru telling the story you read in the picture.
ReplyDeleteI too am trying NaPoWriMo 2021 and have made it to Day Four. I posted Day Three tonight here.
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Thank you, Jim, I appreciate it.
DeleteInteresting take on the photo. I don't know why people think they have the right to judge other's reactions to experiences. Even if they had similar ones, no one reacts the same way to them. Your responses are your responses, and that makes them valid. They're yours, the end.
ReplyDeleteThank you. My thoughts exactly.
DeleteI hope you mean good interesting rather than "well, that's...interesting" as in "wow that's really a steaming load, but you do you."
Two words I'm fond of: purple and twilight. Have you got any sexy werewolves? ;)
ReplyDeleteSorry, but this blog (and its author) are on the opposite end of the spectrum from sexy. Werewolves might stop by occasionally, though.
Deletei wonder what planet has a purple twilight, probably the one Prince went to. anyway, i think it's a terrific response to the prompt.
ReplyDeletei went over to the SpaceLiminalBot at twitter and man, there are so many exciting photos over there i am tempted to do some as prompts. Thanks for the link. :)
The sameness of houses in suburbia has always been a mystery to me, but maybe all they need is the addition of a red light!
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