Hello everyone!
Wishing all of you a very happy Diwali. As we celebrate the festival of lights, may it drive away the darkness of prejudice, fear and greed. May it bring the light of happiness and contentment to your hearts. The prompt for today, 14th November 2020, is “Luminescence”!
Compose a post inspired by the prompt. Please tag your post with “RDP”,”Ragtag Daily Prompt” or “Luminescence”.
You can link to this post creating a pingback or paste the URL of your post in the comments section.
Kindly don’t forget to read other responses to the prompt.
Enjoy your Saturday.
Punam
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That’s a great photo, not your usual sort of candle light and the depth of field together with the warm colours makes it perfect!
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These are earthen lamps…handmade and some are hand painted. On Diwali, in India, most households light these and it is a sight to behold.
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I just spend a good half hour to find Diwali greetings in German on the net. Apparently even here you wish a happy Diwali in English. But it was for a student in my German class, so how could I?
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You could say “Diwali Grüße”! 😀
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Death of a Candle
Suicide
This is how
it decided to end it’s life
Self-inflicted
Just gave up
It’s spirit spiralling upwards
staying around in transparent etherial clouds
until disappearing
into the gloomy night
Don Matthews October 2017
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This is absolutely brilliant, Don. Thanks for sharing.
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Here’s mine Punam
https://poetryforhealing.com/2020/11/14/powerless-2/
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Hi Punam. I remember you. Part silly, part playful….
I wrote two parts to Death of a Candle. Above was part 1. In hindsight I should have included part 2 which I will now do. Thankyou for your comments. It took a while to develop but I was I was pleased with the final result. Don
Death of a Candle (2)
Murdered
Killed in it’s prime
Strangled between fingers
Around it’s blackened throat
A serial killer
He’s done this many times before
Feels nothing in the fingers (tools of trade)
Doesn’t care – on automatic
Candle’s life ebbs away
It’s spirit spirals upwards
Hovering in transparent etherial clouds
Finally disappearing
Into the gloomy night
Don Matthews October 2017
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Lol yes…guilty as charged!
Oh! I love this one too.
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Never ever lose your part silly, part playful…….and thankyou for part 2
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I don’t intend to…
You are welcome.
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