dctezcan
"Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how!" "Be the reason someone smiles today!"
"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932). Prose or poetry.
Ended March 28, 2024 • 5 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Clocks slay time
"Clocks slay time...time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. " William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Ended March 27, 2024 • 6 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Even a well-meaning lie can sometimes cause incalculable harm.
Prose or poetry
Ended March 25, 2024 • 3 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us." Neil de Grasse Tyson
"All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." Chief Seathl
Poetry or prose
Ended March 8, 2024 • 6 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Shadow and light
"A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.”
— Michel de Montaigne
Poetry or prose.
Ended March 4, 2024 • 5 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Nothing new under the sun
"It isn't enough for a sole voice of reason to exist. In this time of uncertainty, we are so sure that villains lurk around every corner that we will create them ourselves if we can't find them — for while fear may keep us vigilant, it's also fear that tears us apart — a fear that sadly exists only too often — outside the Twilight Zone." This is the closing narrative from an episode of The Twilight Zone that first aired March 4, 1960: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.
Poetry or prose
Ended March 9, 2024 • 4 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"There were a lot of gods...
"...Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything."
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Poetry or prose.
Ended March 2, 2024 • 3 Entries • Created by dctezcan
The trouble is, you think you have time. (Buddha)
Prose or poetry
Ended February 20, 2024 • 35 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Inhumanity (noun)
"One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity." (Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary)
"There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man." (Alan Paton)
Prose or poetry.
Ended February 18, 2024 • 4 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Dum spiro spero.
While I breathe, I hope. Prose or poetry.
Ended February 14, 2024 • 15 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"Everything is a kind of dying"
Prose or poetry.
Ended February 5, 2024 • 18 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"In the midst of winter, I finally found there was within me an invincible summer."
Albert Camus. Prose or poetry.
Ended January 24, 2024 • 5 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Life's but a walking shadow
A line from Shakespeare - my first love. Prose or poetry, wherever the quote takes you.
Ended January 23, 2024 • 13 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Things that go bump in the night
Poetry or prose
Ended January 13, 2024 • 10 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Dead Again
Dead Again is the title of a 1991 movie that I loved. Popped in my head today and thought it might a good prompt. I hope you think so, too. Poetry or prose.
Ended December 31, 2023 • 15 Entries • Created by dctezcan