Including Three Word Wednesday and Totally Optional Prompts.
Have you had a go yet?
GURU TONY
To be human is to think in the abstract. This is what raises us above
animals. But this isn’t our humanity. To me, humanity is empathy.
Much of modern culture is to do with only the individual, so in a way,
modern life is not humanity. In particular, we are supposed to shun
spirituality, yet to me spirituality is bonding – of man to man, nature
and the universe. Does denying such spirituality make us less human?
Eye On the World
Writers’ Tips
The ‘Y’ Files
HEALTH NEWS: My beer belly is not
my fault! Study finds it is genetic, so my
beer intake has nothing to do with it!!! Yeah, right.
WORLD NEWS: So the US and Russia agree to more missile cuts.
For a few days all is calm as the President does the deal with
the Puppet.
BRIT NEWS: Freeze on public sector pay? Necessary,
but that’s when the strikes really start – even
if, for some, the rises were too much.
A MOVING EXPERIENCE
Moved a lot, never still,
Couldn’t fight my wandering will,
To experience many a lovely place,
Then find another, with haste;
Settle a while, then I’m gone,
A moving experience in more ways than one
A VISIONARY TALE
Fiction: As he saw the Oracle he knew he should kneel. The world
had gone mad, and he had to know what he could do. Soon the
Oracle had transformed his mind and the vision came. All was death
and gloom, the atmosphere acrid and dead. As visions came it became
transparent. He saw early man in a universe with nature spirits, and
man was that nature. And with organized religion he saw man as an
ordered, spiritual being, reflecting the ordered universe of God. And
as science rose he saw man in a universe of specialization, and his
society fragmented, as the cosmos. And with technology, the
universe became machine-like, and man a cog; a machine spewing
its exhaust … And he now knew we are always a reflection of what
we see the universe as being. Yet, as he returned to the dead
outside, he knew he could do nothing. If only it had been a vision of
the future, and not a remembrance of the past.
BIG WORDS
Incongruous, bombastic,
Big words made of elastic,
I try to despatch them terminally,
But they rebound indubitably,
Forcing me to write erratically …
I must have swallowed a dictionary
© Anthony North, July 2009
