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Evidently, I'm not ready to wrap up the Haiga party yet. Today I have a splendidly gloomy Choka for you inspired by the Six Sentence Story prompt and by the resulting post from Six Sentence Stories' Ghostess with the Mostest. After all, who could fail to be inspired by a post including a video from the mighty Maiden, especially when the song is entitled "Hell on Earth" and I frequently wax poetic about climate change?
The October Spooky Writing Challenge is a go, but I'm using that in a few of its incarnations for slapping out stories. I am using other writing prompts and the images that I find through either pixlr.com or Pixabay for my own October poetry month, or, as I like to call it, Helloween.
This is by no means an official challenge, but if anyone has poetry or stories that they'd like to share this month, you are welcome to do so in the comments.
I'm not sure what's happening with Morgan, who usually hosts OctPoWriMo. I'm concerned about her.
~Ornery Owl has Spookily Spoken~
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("Mighty Maiden" indeed! Inspiring they be so far along the timeline, eh? :D )
ReplyDeleteNot enough ask the question "what....". And it's so very important to do so. A good reminder how we all can make a difference even in the smallest of ways. There is such a thing as a cumulative effect.
Agreed. Too many companies (and people) are only interested in short-term profit rather than what is best for all in the long term.
DeleteBack in the 40's and 50's some of the Halloween masks of the Devil were so frightening to young children, that even the thought of going trick or treating for candy was too frightening an adventure. Candy sitting in a bowl on the kitchen table was something quite different. HaHa
ReplyDeleteI would have both enjoyed and been terrified of those masks. I was the kind of kid who read horror comics under the covers with a flashlight. Then I was too scared to get up to go to the bathroom!
DeleteReflective haiku ~ not many think about this it would seem ~ Xo
ReplyDeleteLiving in the moment,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Agreed. Too few think about it when it's something we all should be thinking about.
DeleteSince I'm living at the center of the inferno... I think about it day and night. Places that were sacred to me, groves of trees, knolls of oaks are all gone. I will not see their seedlings grow in this life. And I trust this Earth, our Mother. Give Nature a little space... and life happens fast and in ways that we can't even begin to imagine. Thanks for this Cie.
ReplyDeleteIt's a sad situation. I'm living in an area of the United States that is experiencing extreme drought. We had smoke blowing in from fires in our own state and even from as far away as California. I'm worried for the state of things to come.
DeleteWell done!
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteWe get a taste of hell in the desert every summer, and the summers are getting hotter. So, yes, where will we find refuge when there is none?
ReplyDeletei think about our childhoods. the feeling of possibilities and the wide open gorgeous world to explore. i've spent my life as a confirmed non consumer. few clothes resurrected from thrift stores and when they decline the practice of mending, instead of replacing. an abundant garden, the practice of composting and recycling. the planting of pollinator gardens and milkweed swaths for monarchs, bees, ladybugs and all the rest of the tiniest creatures. there was a time i believed and encouraged the small acts of kindness we all as individuals can do. the idea that together all these responsible practices make a difference. and while they do- the balance is so askew we need entire countries and their leaders to make sweeping changes. i fear that there is too much greed in the hearts of too many who will be the failing of our earth and for us all. heartbreaking in every way.
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