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She was busy. She had no time for chatter. For sand to slide idly through the hourglass.
The day was short.
Each moment was precious. Each second, opportunity.
Her focus never wandered.
Each section had to have its exact place.
Every addition, calculated.
There were walls and gates and many fences.
There’d be knights and royals to showcase.
Moats and pits of fire.
She was, after all, building an empire.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Empire in 70 words
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She has ants
In her pants.
Restless thoughts
Writing plots.
No surprise
Her brain fries,
Daily grind
Flying blind.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: restless in 19 words
He wanted to take the glasses off but it was not allowed.
The penalty was devastatingly permanent.
True Focus was reserved for a selected few. A privilege. Stealing it would result in losing all sight. Both eyes.
He blinked and tried to calm the nausea that came with the distorting lenses. He never got used to the dizziness. Or the headache.
He didn’t think they were meant to.
“Loyalty above clarity; Fealty, not facts.”
It was chanted. It was law.
A disoriented population was the goal.
He grieved for the realities that had been ignored when freedom still had hope.
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Some jump out,
Intent on being
Captured
By the lens,
The center
Of focused
Attention,
While others
Fade delicately
Into the blurry
Background
To observe,
Potentially
Just as content.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Focus
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Stay focused on what matters:
The smiles that gladden
The hugs that hold
The beauty that makes your heart quicken
The deep power of empathy
The healing breath of soul.
Stay focused
On the big picture
And on the
Details
That make it
Whole.
For The Daily Post
My nephew took this photo some years back during a summer hiking trip. I love it for its absolute focus and the mystery of the inhabitant that had created this fabulously textured, now deserted, sheltered place of transformation. A dried out speck in the blurry landscape and yet so wholly a world onto its own, now gone.
Photo: A. Asif
For The Daily Post – Photo Challenge
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