With sparkling eyes, and a fluffy tail, out clambered the curious fox One furtive glance and, alas he was clasped firmly in a pair of claws Remembering his mother’s words, “Never venture out on an Equinox” Ruminating on his folly all the while getting closer to the bear’s steely jaws The woods reverberated with … Continue reading Buckshot
Month: March 2019
The Lady In Red
(Photo by Ronaldo Santos from Pexels) Thirty minutes before the downpour the sky was as clear as any object could have been after a merry scrub down. Lest I be drawn into a dialectic debate, let me hasten to clarify that the allusion was strictly metaphorical. A magnificent and almost spotless canopy of blue punctuated … Continue reading The Lady In Red
Rat Race & Ruin
(Photo Credit: Crispina Kemp) This was a bridge over nothing and leading nowhere. The connected had long ceased to have any connection since the connectors themselves were homage to a relic. The worn and faded floorboards creaked and groaned like the scratching of a wooden chair on the floor. An ugly asymmetry revealed itself as … Continue reading Rat Race & Ruin
Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us – Seth Godin
Long before Googleplex tickled the febrile imagination of a techno-cult, a man calling himself a ‘Maverick’, instituted a set of pyretic work practices that made the global corporate culture sit up and watch. It also upended the conventional, taken-for-granted, staid run-of-the-mill approaches to work. Ricardo Semler, the CEO and majority owner of Semco Partners, a … Continue reading Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us – Seth Godin
The Rendezvous
(Photo Credit: C E Ayr) Two parts Schadenfreude, one-part guilt. This was exactly how Marlisse felt as she briskly half-walked half-ran to the rendezvous point. Coming around the corner, she could spot the back tire as well as the ubiquitous yellow number plate of Robbie’s half hidden bike. Green was not the only colour that … Continue reading The Rendezvous
The Gatecrasher
It was the smell. The rambunctious laughter reverberating off the walls in the confined space transformed into a peculiar silence. Mass sniffing of nostrils and uncertain shuffling of feet represented the only antidotes to the quietude. As the inebriated and the incongruent alike attempted to discern the cause of the involuntary interruption, their efforts were … Continue reading The Gatecrasher
The Cleave
(Photo Credit: Crispina Kemp) Eleven broad mossy steps separated prosperity from poverty. Eleven stony ice cold steps. Neglected by both nature and nurture, these represented a cleave between hurt and happiness. Going up the eleven prosaic steps led a traveler on a path towards squalor and stupor, whereas coming down the same broad steps steered … Continue reading The Cleave
Notes On A Nervous Planet – Matt Haig
On a short and impromptu holiday in early 2017, I found myself in a non-decrepit ‘budget’ hotel in Seoul. Flanked by a row of convenience stores to its left and a gleaming new plastic & cosmetic surgery centre to its right, the hotel was a constricted cubbyhole of rooms which seemed to bend upon themselves … Continue reading Notes On A Nervous Planet – Matt Haig
Ravages of Time
(Photo Credit: C.E. Ayr) There was something unique about trains. There was something even more unique about watching trains. There was something indescribably unique about watching trains arrive at and depart from stations. Shriek, Screech, Sidings, Fishplates, Rhythm, Pattern, Symmetry. Spitting out weary passengers and swallowing enthusiastic ones. But the passage of time was not … Continue reading Ravages of Time
Patriot
The soldier with a weapon drawn and with his heart on a sleeve; Devotion to him is guarding his nation, for he chooses to believe. Courtesy of Sammi Cox Weekend Writing Prompt#95