FireBall XL-5
September 22, 2010
This picture is the prompt for Monday’s Child prompt #13. But I could not write anything of my own, because this picture started off the theme song tune of Fireball XL-5 in my head.. a 1960s cartoon, which I used to watch passionately as a kid! And I felt this song was so RIGHT for this picture!
I wish I was a space man
The fastest guy alive
I’d fly you round the universe,
In Fireball XL-5
Way out in space together,
Compass of the sky,
My heart would be a fireball,
A fireball,
Everytime I gazed into your starry eyes.
We’d take the path to Jupiter,
And maybe very soon
We’d cruise along the Milky Way,
And land upon the moon.
To our wonderland of stardust,
We’ll zoom our way to Mars,
My heart would be a fireball,
A fireball,
If you would be my Venus of the stars.
Panes of yesterday…
September 11, 2010
A chill ran down my spine, my heart giving a painful squeeze as I looked up at my window and saw her. It stirred all the old memories… fearful, dank and dark.. the sight through the window-pane… of that straight back, the white robes and the black wimple… feelings of feeling small and insignificant, while I stared up at the stern countenance, always but always reprimanding me… for being myself… sometimes for laughing too loud… sometimes for shouting in the long and silent corridors that seemed to stretch forever… so far that I wanted to shout to see whether my voice would return to me…
What were you doing here, now, in my home after so many years? Why, when I had successfully put you away in a remote corner of my soul (or at least so I thought). I hurry in, anxious whether your icy stare would now be turned onto my young son… all my protective instincts coming to the fore.
I turn into the room… and stand there shocked … to find a tableau that will be forever etched in my mind… my young son, holding aloft his prized possession… a frog found in the garden… now housed in a generous bottle… and you, a wide, encouraging smile… admiring his closer-than-heart-buddy dutifully…
Which one then is true? My larger-than-life memories? Or the larger-than-life smiles on your faces as you both turned to look at me?
The Dilemna
September 6, 2010
The sun set over the balcony and evening stretched long ahead into the night. The idea that there was this stretch of time available was so seductive. The excited smiles opened the door and invited the words to come pouring in. So many thoughts, so many ideas, so much of oneself to give and take! Like a game of a well-played game of tennis, the words were passed, one to other … weaving dreams, spells and stories of past, present and future… over endless cups of coffee and tea and cigarettes .. they talked, sometimes sitting relaxed, sometimes leaning forward in excitement, sometimes lying stretched idly. The deep temptation to touch lay there, underneath all those words, like a nibble in the apple… the desire to feel the other’s breath, taste skin, the ache to know more than what words could say. There were times when they drew close, fingers touching once in a while, yet afraid that more than that would dissolve the night and in engagement exchange would be lost. Yet just exchanging would mean that one never would engage in any other meaningful way. The dilemma and the temptation stretched deep into the night and before it could be resolved, day broke and the rising Sun took the shadows away …
Magpie Tales carries these picture prompts… pictures that are expected to trigger the creative juices… so that out could come a poem, a tale, a musing… this one is for their prompt #30
