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Jellyfish and Microbeads

Jellyfish and Microbeads is a work of #art by maureencberry - Maureen C. Berry. In Maureen's words: "by pairing the natural with the unnatural, I create a subtle awareness of the plastic pollution crisis." #TransformativeArt

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Peppers for a Stew

Peppers for a Stew is a work of #art by Abby Ripley. It is a watercolor of three peppers in orange, yellow, and red being cut up to be put in a meat stew with other vegetables. #TransformativeArt

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#art #life #watercolor

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Quirks and Quiddities

Quirks and Quiddities is an #article by Mehreen Ahmed - @Ahmed2Mehreen - all about the dangers of soil erosion in Bangladesh, the fate of farmers, and what is being done to prevent it. #TransformativeWriting

Back in 2020, I had visited Bangladesh. A few of my friends had taken me to see the massive Jamuna Bridge over the river Jamuna. As we crossed the bridge, we entered a village and a few farms. We stopped near one of them and had decided to take a walk through. This farm was spectacular, yellowing with dense crops. But it was also precariously stretched across the jagged unfenced edge overlooking…

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Lost in the Fog

Lost in the Fog is an #article by Ed Staskus about the unholy creation, existence, liberation, and legacy of the Nazi death camps, specifically Majdanek and Auschwitz, as documented by "Night and Fog." #TransformativeWriting

The documentary film “Night and Fog” is 32 minutes long, unless it’s watched thirty times in a row, which makes it almost sixteen hours long. I was a film student at Cleveland State University in 1977 when I saw it for the first time and the thirtieth time. It was made by Jean Cayrol and Alain Resnais twenty years earlier. It is about the unholy creation, existence, liberation, and legacy of the…

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Living is also about Learning to Die

"Living is also about Learning to Die" is an #article by Prakash Kona. Learning to die is the beginning of living. I learn to die in the moment when I become extremely careful in placing the use of time above everything else. #TransformativeWriting

Mahatma Gandhi once said: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” The fact remains that most people pass through life as if they were going to be here forever on this planet, with not even the slightest inkling that the present is a sieve through which the future falls into the graveyard of the past. Most also “learn” grudgingly as if the slightest chance of…

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The Carnival

The Carnival is a #ShortStory by Christy Hoots. Rowan McArthur has always wanted to run his own carnival to delight and frighten his small village. He will give anything to have it. #TransformativeFiction

There are consequences for every action. At least that’s what Rowan McArter had learned the hard way. His dreams of running and maintaining his own carnival had come true. But, like any deal with a demon, there had been exorbitant costs. Costs that he had come to realize may have been too much in the long run. Though, it wasn’t his soul he had given up that night, he often wished that had been.…

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Crying

Crying is a #ShortStory by Alan Brickman. The central character's grief following the death of his wife is made more complicated by her deathbed confession of marital infidelity. #TransformativeFiction

Erica the bartender leaned in and whispered, “Are you okay, Frank?” Frank was sitting at the far end of the bar, his beer glass half empty, reading an E.L. Doctorow short story in the summer fiction issue of the New Yorker. It was about a teenage boy whose father died, and that was all it took. Frank was bawling, the tears dripping onto the magazine and onto the bar. Erica moved the napkin…

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Los Imperiales

Los Imperiales is a #ShortStory by Jonathan Ferrini about a family trust that shields a tiny town from the "winds of change." #TransformativeFiction

The agricultural region known as Imperial Valley is visually stunning. The farmland resembles a giant green carpet. I’m a real estate appraiser sent to determine the Fair Market Value of the Heroes Hall located in a small town called La Esperanza within Imperial County, bordering San Diego and the Arizona desert. I checked into the The Incan hotel, a Spanish style architectural relic. Upon…

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Memories

Memories is a #poem, by Lynn White, about the things we remember and those we forget. #TransformativePoetry

If I could choose my memories I would keep the ones that make me smile still keep them safe, so I can revisit them and throw away the rest watch them blow away in the wind. But I can’t. They’re self selecting they chose themselves and I wonder what choices will be left for me to the end of my days.

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My Call

My Call is a #ShortStory by @SonOfSappho - Ryan Brinkhurst - about a predator who uses a phone call to terrify and capture a victim. #TransformativeFiction

Have you ever felt like someone was watching you? What is that feeling? Do you hear someone off in the distance but not really recognize the sound? Do you smell the faint smell of another person in the air? Do you see movement in the corner of your eye, not really knowing there was anything there? I’m sitting outside the library, which is now closed, waiting for my friend to pick me up, so we can…

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Learning to Forgive

Learning to Forgive is a #poem by Ann Christine Tabaka - @TabakaChris - about learning to forgive an abusive father. #TransformativePoetry

as children, we were poor, hungry, dirty … a hand-me-down world of shame. ignominious food donations walked across a rotting porch. money poured into whiskey bottles, drowning miseries of another life. never a drop of compassion left to spare. love was rationed out in teardrops, in-between the rain of guilt pouring down upon us. I cried, I hid, I ran away from nowhere / deep into myself. chancing…

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Protection or Suffocation

Protection or Suffocation is a #poem by Sultana Raza about musing on choices, metaphorical or philosophical; deciding between extremes. #TransformativePoetry

Should I float down, or fly even higher? Stay in or venture in the open? Should I expose myself to others, Or spiral inside stone cocoon? Ivory tower or watch tower? Water tower or hunter’s tower? Is it better to stay below, Or go up to see the big picture? Should I indulge my mania To visit yet more towers? Is it better to always ask questions Or to avoid answers sometimes?

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An American Experience

An American Experience is a #poem by Dale Cottingham. Here is an excerpt: While I waited at roadside I thought,  why not try some loveliness.  I saw visions in far reaches, felt the soft touch of silence #TransformativePoetry

While I waited at roadside I thought, why not try some loveliness. I saw visions in far reaches, felt the soft touch of silence, melodies sprung from solitude, like a dream of new being to see how it fit within the frame. I even tried my hand on the page. But real time kept barging in, with meetings in the broad hours, cross purposes hurled down corridors, my inbox flooded with unkind…

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cain's daughter

cain's daughter is a #poem by RC deWinter - @RCdeWinter - about how some sacrifices will always be unacceptable. #TransformativePoetry

blow you bitterblue wind whirl away the thorns that crown me i refuse the cup i am no sacrifice no god would find me pleasing i was not born to die for anyone words that must be spoken tremble on my tongue nothing sacred calls to me but for the speaking of truth as prismed through my eyes and i will fight kicking screaming until the last syllable is uttered imperfect as i am i surrender nothing i…

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Who are we?

Who are we? is a #poem by Mary Mills. Here is an excerpt: Are we who we were and will be? Today dashes past unnoticed. Memories form bridges connecting now with then. #TransformativePoetry

Are we who we were and will be? Today dashes past unnoticed. Memories form bridges connecting now with then. Time pushes from a shore. Life jumps constant hurdles. Opposites pull us forward, backward upward, downward nowhere, everywhere. Matter and anti-matter collide in constant flux- Forever changing- Immortality.

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#memory #poem #poetry #time

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Different Chills

Different Chills is a winter #poem by John Grey. #TransformativePoetry

It’s winter and your cheeks are raspberry red, your arms white, your lips tingled blue. It’s so bitterly cold out and you’re standing on the platform of the commuter rail, bundled up in Christmas sweater, toque and thick gloves. But that’s nothing to the wind. The blustery chill ignores what you’re wearing, goes right for the bone. You keep telling yourself over and over, “I’ll be home soon.” The…

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Burnt Time

Burnt Time is a #poem by Nolo Segundo about how life has expanded exponentially, beyond time and the mundane, beyond the universe, even beyond death itself. #TransformativePoetry

It is what is left of my mundane life, burnt time, and its ashes are the memories of my misted youth. But I am not saddened by this for I burned the days and months and years to light my way home….

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