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Of Shapes and Bones
by Joshua C. Pipkins

“Are you the devil?” The man asks me. His eyes are no longer eyes, but milk. "No," I say, "but I am dead like you."

“So I have died,” he says, and there's a hint of melancholy in his otherwise deadpan voice. His body is stiff and unmoving, caught against a collection of rocks at the edge of the stream. I plant my knees in the grass next to him.

“You are my guide,” he says.

“I am. My name is Vergil,” I say.

He falls silent, the water sparkling like stars against his skin. After several moments, he answers. “I was a good father. I need you to know that.”

“I know,” I tell him, “I know everything about you, Daniel.”

“Then take me,” he says, “I want to see my husband.”

A gust of wind blows through the meadow. Trees bend and rustle. The flowers whisper solemnly in my ears. I take his hand into my own, flesh and bone intertwined, and snatch the Shape from his body.

I lead him into the Crossing, where the pit awaits at the heart of the sea, vast mounds of colors falling and rising like time-struck mountains beneath our feet. “It’s beautiful,” he says as we walk. “I’ve never seen anything like it before.”

Then I ask him, “If you’d seen everything in life, what would be the mystery in death?”

“I guess that’s true,” he laughs, though it sounds more like leaves being blown in the wind. “It’s just… I stopped believing in a Heaven so long ago. I figured that if one did actually exist, I wouldn’t ever see it.”

I say, “You loved who you loved.”

“Yes, I loved who I loved,” he says.

Then he asks, “Am I going to hell, Vergil?”

“Do you believe you’re going to hell, Daniel?”

“I don’t know,” he says, “I spent my entire life hearing that I would. I guess I’d be a little disappointed if I didn’t. All that time spent wondering when I ran away from home with Henry, worrying that I’d done something unforgivable.”

“There’s no such thing,” I tell him, “In the end, love is still love. I don’t think there’s anything more worthy of Heaven than a man who sacrifices for love.”

He can’t smile, but I feel as if he is, and as we near the pit at the heart of the Crossing, a deep sapphire light burning in its core, he lets go of my hand and drifts toward the edge.

“My daughter,” he says, “Does she… know about me?”

“She received a call this morning. She’s grieving, but she’ll be okay.”

“I became so… distant after Henry died,” he says, “I closed myself off from the world when she was still in college. I stopped accepting her calls. I wanted nothing to do with the world if he wasn’t there by my side. I just lied in bed and let the time take me. I was so selfish, Vergil.”

Then he says, “I was a good father. I need you to know that.”

“I know. I know everything about you, remember?”

He nods, then stares down into the light with apprehension. For an eternity he stands there, saying nothing, the world around him living and dying again and again.

He jumps.



“Are you God?” the little girl asks me. “No,” I tell her. “But I am dead like you.”

#review #ShortStory
It wasn't intentional!

We both knew!
You started everything
You made me to feel the best in me
You made me to understand what true love is
You made me to know even affection like this exists
You made me to realize all bonds doesn’t need a name
You made me to change myself completely…
Yeah!
It was you behind this beautiful bond but I don’t blame that it’s all your fault now…
We’ve been together in many things either be it sad or happiness, victory or failure, emotions or emptiness we stood with each other…
You know what!? This is what I have imagined all these years but now I understand that only I needed you in all such situations whereas you never really wanted me by your side.
I thought
you will feel good when I’m with you;
you will need me at the end of the day to share your day;
you will search for me when you are not doing well;
and lot more that can’t be bundled up in words
but you have also made me to realize that you never really wanted me to be by your side…
And now all I am doing is to search myself, the true self which have been lost long back in the chaos of loving you blindly… I know what I was, how I was, who I was, before meeting you but now I don’t have even myself with me! It’s all you that I have within me but I don’t blame that it’s all your fault.
I know the way you loved me, you cared me, you admired me but all my question is
Where’s that person who made me smile without any reason even at odd hours of day?
Where’s that person who made me trust them without any need?
Where’s that person who made me feel as the most important one?
I have expressed my feelings in all possible ways I could and even said you directly but then you ask me again “what should I do?”
You know how painful it is to hear such question after letting myself to someone who is close to me than myself…
I have understood your situations many times even you knew it pretty well
And now I am tired of being the one who understand others and I need to be understood sometimes…
I’ve waited for you a lot of times which doesn’t hurt more than you asking “did I ask you to wait?!” what kind of reaction is that to someone who is extremely crazy about you.
And I know you don’t need me the way you needed me! Even you know this but you don’t accept it openly.
All I did was to love you unconditionally the way you loved me during our starting days… is it this easy for you to change like a totally different person ?
Even now I am trying my best to be supportive to you wherein you don’t even have the courtesy to think about my feelings… so when you come to me again after all your issues being sorted out you will not find the one true soul that loved… each time you do this again and again just because I cant leave you.
I am losing myself more than the normal and hating myself terribly for not being able to hate you!
I do everything for you and react to you only for your behavior, always remember to think a little before you speak…
And there are lot more to say but even my words got glued to you and I find it difficult to put it together.
This is all my side of the story!
if you think the way I portrayed you wrong in here… then tell me your part… at least that may create a reason to talk.

#review
#mv
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Cities…



Voices And Noises Everywhere,

Car's Honking And People Strolling,

The Once Blue Sky Is Now Filled In Haze,

Tiny Sprinkles Of Greenery Around,

Trees Torn Apart From Between,

Standing Quietly, Unable To Scream,

Their Dead Leaves Falling,

As Tears Rolling Down From The Eyes,

A Place Where Dreams Come True,

They Call It And Yet,

It's Nothing More Than A Maze,

A Concrete Jungle Devoid Of Beauty,

As The Night Approaches,

The Jungle Gets Quieter, And Yet,

The Stars Are Hiding Behind The Smog,

The Night Sky Appears Grey,

And As The Moon Rises Up In The Sky,

Down Goes The Morality Of Humans,

With Sins And Crimes Under The Cover 

Of The Shadow.

The Morning Sun Rises Again,

And The Noises Still Continue

And The Night Falls Again….

                                  -Rahul Adhikari

#poetry

#review
#review
#mr

She had that wonderful waterfall on her face,
How enchanting, how effortless,
With such rhythm, they water flows, I don't care in which direction.

Suddenly she moved, I couldn't see the waterfall no more, I felt annoying.

And then, there was that sight, a beautiful river, her hair.
Waving with the utmost grace I have never witnessed.
My entity danced, danced like a it felt the ever hidden ancient enchantment. Ah!
#review

Hiding the truth by not expressing it to a person means dishonest in relationship?, If it depends on the situation then honesty will not exist. If it should be expressed then sometimes relationships won't exist. Is there any balance between these two or only one can be successful?
Fifty two avenues
Ring low that solemn sound.
You grab me, when I sneeze
Like a bad, stew-peed hound.
I won't be scared to soar
Because you will catch me.
When the sky spits a roar
I'll be you, you'll have me.
Fifty two boulevards
Tweak my heart, and I smile,
For you're my leotards
Let us dance, love goes a-mile
You hold me, I'll hold you,
Worry not, I'll take you.

#amtupu_ #review #poetry
Be my valentine!
A smiley sunshine ray
That never go astray
I couldn't get away
My heart is bonded to stay!

My heart is a vast world
That's built just for both of us
The world is absurd and meaningless
Your existence is what gives it meaning.

I'm lost in love and love is lost
My loss to love is just a love
I live for you, you live for me
We are bound to be, today and forever

"O" ye my love, I'm sworn to you
My joy, my dream, my hope, and Paradise
What could I do without your existence?
You are the source of my happiness.

I'm yours, you are mine till eternity
Could you be forever my Valentine?
#poem #review
#review
#agim

Years of college,
Hundreds of days in classroom,
Enormous subjects,
Months of preparations,
Dozens of scary exam weeks,
Many number of friends and memories.

But when I want to look back ,it is all those few seconds of eye contact with u.

Never thought this much pain it lays,until the last day we shook our hands to part ways.
Though we shared lot of words during conversation, all I remember now is the silence we carried out after knowing we both had a crush on each other.
In the view of eagle eye we both have a place as classmates,but our own eyes carries the feeling which is never known to the outer world.
#review



I want to be free - free from this numbness and sadness that spreads like wild fire in my heart.
I want to feel again - feel how it’s like to be loved, craved and wanted.
I want to be able to remember the bliss and happiness of having that someone who makes everything better and all your pain fades away——— But until then,
I’ll keep drowning in apathy and tortured by the voices in my head…
"You're not good enough", "You're never going to be loved".
Who else marvels at the sight of the flickering weary air from the burning tip of a cigarette? Be it Tobacco or Cannabis they all seem to prance about with the gases in the air and create flaring patches. Who is to say plants don't have spirits? That when you burn them in their wrapped paper, they flee, slightly exposed? Who is it to say, that's every last part of them? I must reckon that some piece of its soul has gushed past the filters, into my mouth, down my throat, and across my lungs, to swirl and mix with my blood.

#review
Shy in the sky

Clock touches the twelve
It's the fresh Sunday, again!
Oh! I can see the moon
With his new suit,
It happens all the day
But something is special on Sundays, moon with a finest coat
And sun with a bright fit,
He always wants to
Tell something to the sun
But he always runs away when He saw her.

© TEJ

#review #poetry
MY EVERLASTING LOVE

On the ocean bed's I saw your shadow self seeking for an eternal touch of freshness.
You were once tangible in my life, now a phantom.

A fading memories haunting my mind and heart. We could stay overnight watching the Orion belts of the heavenly pleiades.

Once you said "I will love you forever". Now, it is a mirage on the road to mount Sharon.

I wish those experiences never happened, only my innocent soul living alone. Many saw how great we were living together without a fight but I was in pains because you never heeded to my piece of advice.

You prefer to listen but never acted on what I say. You got me worried only to be separated by a great storm. where are you my everlasting love?

My everlasting love has dissolved in the ocean like a pint of salt. My soul cried out to embrace her but she's gone forever. The only thing I can remember is to take on a journey to myself inorder to meet her in my consciousness.

She's completely at one with the ocean, indeed she's the ocean. So I seek a way to become like her.

The darkness taught me a great lesson and I chose to be the light in a difficult world and I have known pains growing up. But now I am fully ready and opened to embrace my strengths and flaws. Let me dissolve in the stormy sea of love knowing I will forever unite with my LOVER.

Oh my LOVER, receive me into your everlasting bosom!!

#review ALL
Shy in the sky

Clock touches the twelve
It's the fresh Sunday, again!
Oh! I can see the moon
With his new suit,
It happens all the day
But something is special on Sundays, moon with a finest coat
And sun with a bright fit,
He always wants to
Tell something to the sun
But he always runs away when He saw her.

© TEJ

#review #poetry
MY EVERLASTING LOVE

On the ocean bed's I saw your shadow self seeking for an eternal touch of freshness.
You were once tangible in my life, now a phantom.

A fading memories haunting my mind and heart. We could stay overnight watching the Orion belts of the heavenly pleiades.

Once you said "I will love you forever". Now, it is a mirage on the road to mount Sharon.

I wish those experiences never happened, only my innocent soul living alone. Many saw how great we were living together without a fight but I was in pains because you never heeded to my piece of advice.

You prefer to listen but never acted on what I say. You got me worried only to be separated by a great storm. where are you my everlasting love?

My everlasting love has dissolved in the ocean like a pint of salt. My soul cried out to embrace her but she's gone forever. The only thing I can remember is to take on a journey to myself inorder to meet her in my consciousness.

She's completely at one with the ocean, indeed she's the ocean. So I seek a way to become like her.

The darkness taught me a great lesson and I chose to be the light in a difficult world and I have known pains growing up. But now I am fully ready and opened to embrace my strengths and flaws. Let me dissolve in the stormy sea of love knowing I will forever unite with my LOVER.

Oh my LOVER, receive me into your everlasting bosom!!

MAXAGBE
#review All
MY EVERLASTING LOVE

On the ocean bed's I saw your shadow self seeking for an eternal touch of freshness.
You were once tangible in my life, now a phantom.

A fading memories haunting my mind and heart. We could stay overnight watching the Orion belts of the heavenly pleiades.

Once you said "I will love you forever". Now, it is a mirage on the road to mount Sharon.

I wish those experiences never happened, only my innocent soul living alone. Many saw how great we were living together without a fight but I was in pains because you never heeded to my piece of advice.

You prefer to listen but never acted on what I say. You got me worried only to be separated by a great storm. where are you my everlasting love?

My everlasting love has dissolved in the ocean like a pint of salt. My soul cried out to embrace her but she's gone forever. The only thing I can remember is to take on a journey to myself inorder to meet her in my consciousness.

She's completely at one with the ocean, indeed she's the ocean. So I seek a way to become like her.

The darkness taught me a great lesson and I chose to be the light in a difficult world and I have known pains growing up. But now I am fully ready and opened to embrace my strengths and flaws. Let me dissolve in the stormy sea of love knowing I will forever unite with my LOVER.

Oh my LOVER, receive me into your everlasting bosom!!

MAXAGBE
#review
#review #mythoughts

Maybe the Devil looks as good as a human being
And not how people potray him in paintings
After all, even he was hurt I guess
Hurt by his Pride.
That's why Hurt people hurt people.
I pray that he finds his peace

#KP
Hello guys, please can you review the blurb/summary of my book 'Mystical Mutant'
If you liked it you can find it on wattpad @kikibtsstan

BLURB
Several years ago, legend had it that only two mystical creatures existed in the world. The Elevanas and the Glorindians.
They lived together in peace for decades until the day that the Glorindians claimed to be more powerful and superior than the Elevanas. It caused the leaders of the clans to create boundaries between them.

"Who dares fight science with nature?" The Glorindians boasted.
On the other hand, the Elevanas were certain they were stronger. Nature is like a masked devil, so beautiful yet so deadly.

...

A terrible war wiped out the entire species. But there was a survivor, and her name was Fiona.
She must overcome all obstacles to live a normal life forever in the human world.
But the question is,
How long can she hide? How long can she keep this up? How long can she keep pretending to be something she's not? How long is forever?
#review
Ever After

How long will it last? They ask,
Maybe this verse would suffice.
He, like the morning sun,
Would continue to shine.
I, be the most-awaited,
Full moon fortnights.
Till the day love stops,
To lure a poet's mind.
And the brush of an artist,
Falls deprived.
He, and I, shall never part,
Till our souls decide to die.
And the love must go on, and on,
Ever after our demise.

26/02/2022
10:20 pm
©Pakhi

#review #poemforhansen #lovepoem #pm
#review #mythoughts

Maybe the Devil looks as good as a human being
And not how people potray him in paintings
After all, even he was hurt I guess
Hurt by his Pride.
That's why Hurt people hurt people.
I pray that he finds his peace

#KP
#review #ad #article
Creating a Balance: Mental Health and Physical Fitness


We see that there is a huge emphasis put on physical fitness. Creating body images that are accepted and some that are not has shaped the perspective of today’s world. In this article, we shed light on the importance of a balance between mental health and physical fitness. We will give you some handheld tips to assist you while you find a middle ground to give mental health and physical fitness equal importance.

Why should there be a balance between mental health and physical fitness?
We are trained to be masters of our bodies, but never masters of our minds. We come with a pamphlet of instructions when what we really need is a manual. We are often taught that we run our lives, although we love to believe that it is scientifically proven that we do not!

Did we get your attention with that one? We are right! Our actions, both planned and unplanned, our wild spirit of spontaneity, and more, are all designed by experience, exposure, and perspective. Also, nothing is random.

So, how do you curb uncertainty?
Creating a balance between mental health and physical fitness can only be done by creating a way of life. These two elements should be incorporated into our lives. It should not be inserted, but rather a transformation or fusion should take place.

The manner in which this issue can be eliminated is by creating a steady pattern. This will help remove areas of daily challenges when motivation is down and your body and mind are not pumped up to do them.

This can be done by
Creating habits
Setting routines
Planning
Balancing
How to balance mental health and physical fitness?
#1 Walk as much as you journal
How to do it? In the morning, when there’s fresh air and quiet to take a walk in. We do not recommend that you walk miles every morning. Keep it short and brisk. A short 20-minute walk is more than sufficient to maintain a balance between mental health and physical fitness.

Physical benefits - Keeps you fit, gets your blood running.
Mental benefits - Clears your head, gives you thinking time.
#2 Play as much as you read
Choose a sport. This doesn't have to be every day. Instead, choose a few days in the week where you dedicate an hour to playing a sport. The goal here is not to make it to the Olympics but to allow you to clear your head, meet people, laugh, have fun, and most of all, move your body.

Physical benefits - Move your body, energise and revitalise.
Mentel benefits - Destress the mind, gives the cerebrum a break.
#3 Run as much as you meditate
Taking a short jog at the end of the day will not only tone your body, but give you the time to destress. We are aware that the day would have demanded a little more than what you could give, but you made it. Push yourself to physically make it to the end of the target. It teaches you to be persistent. Along with strengthening your mind.

Physical benefits - Moves your body, tones your body.
Mental benefits - Strengthens the mind in persistence, master discipline.
Bottomline
Maintaining a balance between physical health and mental fitness has a reciprocal effect. Physical fitness allows you to feel confident, have good self-esteem, and be aware of yourself. It removes the limitations and every opportunity that passes your way can be accepted because you will be in the right physical and mental state to accept it.

Conclusion
We have plenty more where this came from. In this article, we discussed the importance of maintaining a balance between mental health and physical fitness. Along with its importance, we also have the coinciding effects it has and the progress you will experience. Prowritist strongly believes in striking a balance between mental health and physical fitness.
CRUSH
You are like fire in a lamp /
I can't live without  seeing you, can not touch you /
I can come to you but can not reach you /
Your life is my memory and the light of my life /
I am feared to say words in my heart, if can't say i became crazy/
I afraid of you, i like you, i can't live without you /
Because you was a fire in a lamp/

01/03/2022
11:58 PM
@abhi

#review #lovepoem #abhi