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).
Please continue to write however you’re inspired, but add a tag to the beginning of your post if there’s mature content in order to keep Picture it & Write an engaging event for all of our followers.
Moderate language.
Life is not a series of checkboxes.
Graduate highschool. Check.
Graduate college. Check.
Get married. Check.
Have babies. Check.
Society has more rules than I can count, more rules than is necessary.
Don’t wear white after labor day. Check.
Only eat french toast for breakfast. Check.
Finish your meal before dessert. Check.
It’s time to break free. Maybe I don’t want to conform to breakfast’s monopoly on french toast. Maybe I like wearing white whenever a damn well please. Maybe I don’t want to go to college or have children. Maybe I want to start a company. Maybe I want to adopt.
I reach up and cut my strings. I cut away your hold on me.
–Eliabeth Hawthorne
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People complain of their lack of control
An unseen hand directing movement
Deciding what is and what will be
But my strings aren’t strings
More like woven rods of steel
Not even the illusion of freedom
Just pillars of crushing weight
Dragging me down
Nice poem. Well done!
Thanks! I’m not much of a poet, but it’s always easier when you have great inspirational material to work from.
Beautiful poetry. Thanks for contributing.
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Nice one. Here’s mine https://joe2stories.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/picture-it-and-write-close-to-reality/
Have you seen Home? Dr. Sheldon Cooper(‘s actor) plays an alien, it’s adorable!! “Animal protein or chopped plant matter for consumption,” reminded me of a line from the money. The aliens give ice cream (sweetened bovine secretion) to the humans to make their relocation more enjoyable.
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I love it! Cutting yourself out of the “norms” of society.
here is my interpretation! https://authormercedes.wordpress.com/2015/10/09/strings/