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Welcome to the Picture it & Write creative writing exercise. I invite people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (please provide a translation). Anyone who wants to join in, is welcome. This photograph will be reblogged under Ermisenda on tumblr and added to the Picture it & Write gallery on Facebook and Pinterest.
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Wabi-sabi
The Golden Ratio focuses on perfection and precision. Your beauty is diminished, flawed for not falling in perfect symmetry. Wabi-sabi celebrates imperfections. The Japanese believe something is beautiful in its impermanence.
A flower arrangement wilts, a sand sculpture is washed away by the waves. Both are more beautiful than the building meant to last forever. You appreciate it more. How many times will you pass that building? How many times will you be able to sniff the flowers?
Humans are beautiful. We are a flawed. Our beauty is fleeting. It is our imperfections that make us unique: the beauty mark on a woman’s lip, the young man’s crooked smile.
–Eliabeth Hawthorne
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अब जिन्दगी के सफर का यही अंत हुआ फुल मुरझाकर भी देता दुआ जाओ और खूब खुशबू बिखरे यही हें वक्त के अंतहीन फेरे
Please provide a translation.
A torrent of wind had taken hold of this day whipping the long grass along the path and cracking the trunks of the sycamores. The sky was getting cloudy for a lightning storm was brewing. I should have hastened my steps toward the farmhouse but a haunting visage setting along the path had captured me. I stopped slowly and my eyes fell toward the ground. I beheld a sight of death; the form of a human skull was wrapped in the petals of a wilting rose. It was looking at me. Eerie silence filled the air and the trees became still. Darkness began to close in from all around. Then, piercing the silence, the shriek of a crow rang out. The hairs on my neck stood rigid and a tingle raced through my skeleton. I tried to move, I tried to hit the ground, but it was too late. There was a violent flash of electricity followed shortly by the crash of thunder. And there was nothing left of me but soot and a pair of my smoking, steel-toed boots.
Death came a-calling. Good piece!
Great suspense~
Great imagery, I especially liked the smoking steel-toed boots.
Forgive me for having a good, macabre chuckle at the thought of the smoking boots. With all those omens, there was no way this poor character was getting away unscathed! This is my kind of writing. I cut my teeth on the old E.C. horror comics. I’d read them under my covers and scare the hell out of myself. I just couldn’t help it, they were so much fun!
Did I ever tell you I’ve been struck by lighting seven times? Once when I was just staring at a flower. 🙂 I also liked the smoking boots.
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I haven’t heard of Wabi-sabi but it sounds like a wonderful idea. Here is mine http://joe2stories.wordpress.com/2014/06/29/picture-it-and-write-freedom/ Enjoy.
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Here is my response to this interesting prompt Ermilia 🙂
http://wp.me/p2Jp6l-mp
Hello Eliabeth! Hope you’re having a good weekend! I’ve missed doing these! Enjoy! 🙂
http://wp.me/p1yMbO-1V0
Great to see you back Meghan. We’ve missed you. I hope all is well.
Thank you! Glad to be back on the PI&W train! 🙂
My writing teammate and I created a character study using the prompt.
http://hickswyliedna.blogspot.com/2014/06/emily-katherine-salvatore-sad-eyed-lady.html
Your building meant to last forever reminded me of Kaa’s Hunting, in which Rudyard Kipling describes how the jungle has consumed what was once the city of a great human civilization. In ironic effect, the Bandar-log want to make a human their leader among its ruins.
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