AN EXPERIMENT/WRITING CHALLENGE

I am posting this picture as the subject for a writing challenge! I invite everyone interested to post their poem as a review. It should be interesting to read all the different poems this picture inspires. Should there be enough Interest in this, then I may open a thread and post a picture once a month as a writing challenge. 

Reviews

[Bear]

WAVES
Drop a pebble in a pond and watch the ripples spread
Each wave causing chaos and turmoil where ever they tread
Murky water churning up past misery and woes
Its malignancy is spreading everywhere it goes
But we calm the waters first in our own mind
And search deep our soul for the power we might find
Then join the hearts passion and cast another stone
Watching for other prayers that might have been thrown
Waves will crash upon them selves and then be gone
Leaving the surface peaceful and very calm
Then just like the still waters that run so deep
So to will the healthy peaceful feelings seep
Peace of mind free spirit and pure of heart
That's when health and happiness will really start
Bear

[Rainslover]

As I started reading this I felt chaotic and as I went further slowly it transformed into peace! Wonderful poem! :)

[Bear]

I hope you consider taking the writing challenge and post a poem for the picture.

[Rainslover]

Yup! I did that! :)

[Ronnie]

a drop
a small one
falling softly
is enough
to move
the sea
making big waves
kindly touching
the shore
one drop
making the sea
be what is mean to be

[Bear]

Bravo! thank you for taking part in this writing experiment, sometime in the future I may start a thread and post a picture once a month for anyone who wishes to write a poem about it. But for now, I don't have the time to keep up with everything :~)

[Ronnie]

Thanks you :-) . Any time you start it, it's fine.

[Kay]

THE BLUE TOWER

Aquatic blue tower:
Stand firm in your moment;
Unhinged by a force, which
Parts you from your equals.
For you have changed,
And will not be hindered,
By the ripple effect.

Aquatic blue tower:
Unstable in your form;
Wasted a moment, which
Parted you from your equals.
For you have failed,
And chaos reigned,
By your ripple effect.

Aquatic blue tower:
Forgiveness be upon you;
Understand who you are, which
Unites you and your equals.
For you belong,
And will return,
To still blue waters.

[Bear]

Wow it keeps surprising me how much people can see and be inspired buy a simple drop of water. Thank you for taking the challenge, I can only imagine the greatness a better picture will bring forth. Well done my friend :~)

[Kay]

Thank you, Bear. It's the first picture challenge I've done and I'm happy I particpated in it. I hope you make more picture challenges! They're fun. :)

[Bear]

I have just opened a thread with this picture if you would like to post your poem there as well.

[Kay]

Awesome sauce! I'm going to do that right now. :D

[Chris W.]

This is really good. I like your use of repetition and structure to reinforce the narrative.

[Kay]

Thank you! I'm happy you liked it. :)

[1VJ]

What a great idea Bear, and I love your take on it. You've really inspired everyone here.

A single teardrop
in a sea of dreams,
measured intensity
amidst each ripple,
reflecting the poetic
depths of conjugation

[Bear]

Beautiful sentiment, idealistically captured the real essence of a tear. Masterfully done and thank you for taking the writing challenge, it is good to have you among us :~)

[Kay]

Paloma, such a simplistic piece wrapped around the beauty and effects of a teardrop! I love it. :)

[Tauvic Heedajat]

Water's Anger

Without me you can die
With me you can die too
Like a mankind who is a weak creator
But they also can be a predator
Sometimes they do not care for the others
People there are too thirsty
No money to buy soft drink
Whereas
Here some people got a party
Buy beers, drinks and waste them in vain
I am a source of life
But I also can destroy their lives
Kids are playing happily in the rain
Tomorrow they are so upset because the flood
Sweeps their house
The farmers are so excited in the harvest
Tomorrow they are so sad because
No rain mo water to terminate the long dry
Is that caused by the predator?
I do not want to talk about it
I just ask mankind not to bother my friends
Do you have some friends?
Just think about it by yourself!
Will you angry when your friend killed by someone?
Me too
You know that so many trees are cut illegally by the predator
My friends’ home, the forest are burnt by the predator
So I revenge by attacking them with the flood
Because there is no friend absorbing me again
Then other predator murder my another friends
They are so happy when the New Year Eve
They shot my friends above by their fireworks
They never think about my friend, the air
They perforate my friend’s house, the ozone layer
With their shots
So I revenge by attacking them with heavy rain
And the lightning
Without me you can die
With me you can die too

[Bear]

The power of water used for defense, that is an interesting idea attacking with rain. It is so interesting to read the differences we all see from looking at the same picture, the uniqueness that makes us who we are. How cool is that :~)
And thank you for taking part in the writing challenge.

[Tauvic Heedajat]

Thank you so much Bear for reading and reviewing mine. It is really great taking part in your writing challenge because you have made me write and learn again. Nice to have friend like you Bear and I'll wait for your another challenge. Lol

[zaisham9393]

I hope you like it...I was inspired by the picture so I wrote this today and also published it in this website...

NOT JUST A TEARDROP

After looking at the sunshine
I saw a glimpse of hope
Saw my reflection in water
I finally found a way to cope
I stood there numb and frozen
Until a teardrop gave voice to my feeling
I had finally spoken
It helped me cleanse my soul
It felt so refreshing
And this is how I started believing
When my heart sank in sorrow
I realized it was not just a teardrop
Cause it brought a joy
A hope for a better tomorrow
Gave me my life back again
I could see the storm
I could feel the rain
Drowning the haunted memories
It cleansed my soul
I could finally see
It was not just a teardrop
I realized life is a blessing
I just needed to give it a chance to be
A new perspective; as I followed the trail
I was bound in chains of negativity
I came out alive
I found a place where I wanted to be
Free from the guilt and the misery
All the hurt and regret locked up inside
I tried to hide
Until...
Every teardrop became a ray of hope
Finally the bottled up emotions
Left me…
Living in my own misery
the tear drops made me feel alive
I was finally set free.

[Bear]

It is beautiful but it need a good title, a name to call it's own and I think this phrase right out of your poem fits "NOT JUST A TEARDROP" what do you think :~)
And thank you for taking the writing challenge, it is nice to have you on board

[zaisham9393]

what do you think now ???

[Bear]

Perfect and a fitting name :~)

[zaisham9393]

Thank You so much...I hope you really do like it :))

[Insight "MH"]

Waves of Emotion

It was tiny, yet it made a tsunami in me

As pure as water, as soft as silk

This drop you've sent, changed my heart entirely

Waves of emotion shook the unbroken man within

Making him drift to you unconsciously

Promising, my heart will only ripple for you

[Bear]

Excellent, this may be the best poem of yours I have read, very powerful and moving the emotions you bring out. Clap Clap! Clap!
And thank you for taking the writing challenge, it is starting to look like I will be doing this again :~)

[Insight "MH"]

I am very faltered :-D . Thank you for your kind words and thanks for this nice idea.

[Insight "MH"]

Waves of Emotion

[Bear]

Great name, you can edit you review poem posting and add the name if you want.

[Insight "MH"]

OK sensei :) i'll edit.

[Rainslover]

Beautiful with feelings of ecstasy and pure love! And yes, you have got a beautiful name!

[Insight "MH"]

Thank you for your lovely comment.

[Jyoti_Ablaze]

AWAITING RUNE

The minutes pass into hours
Hours into days, days into months
And months into years
Eons slipped by while she kept waiting
For nothing but a glimpse of his
Her eyes were empty and dry now
But a well was accumulated of her tears
Brimming and dripping droplets of blood.

[Bear]

Great prospective, sorrowful and emotionally powerful, well done my friend and thank you for taking the writing challenge :~)

[Jyoti_Ablaze]

Thank you, Bear. It was fun to hunt words for a picture as gripping as this one.

[Rainslover]

Painful and yet gorgeous!

[Jyoti_Ablaze]

Thank you.

[Insight "MH"]

Lovely written .

[Jyoti_Ablaze]

Thank you.

[Insight "MH"]

You are welcome.

[Rainslover]

Depth of the Waves

A little stone did I throw long back,
Today I see the ripples it makes;
A seed of longing it was,
A mind filled with cravings it is;
Once did I come out of stability,
To ask for more and be greedy,
That I see the vast sea waves ,
Spreading evils,
And so to just question my innocence of childhood,
Did I go into the deep sense of human hood,
That these waves alone know,
And deep I was going to find the tranquility I find now,
Not on the waves,
But where the unstirred blissful depth of pure hearts lies,
That the world doesn't see and ends with the waves,
In the depth of the waves is the real happiness and bliss...


Note: Tense and grammatical errors are more I think, but if I change them maybe the meaning goes off. Just mention if any error I'll correct it. Thanks for reading. Hope you liked it! :)

Nice idea Bear!

[Bear]

Bravo! I was afraid the picture may have been to vague to inspire but your poem says other wise. What is the title of your poem you didn't include it? Well done my friend :~)

[Rainslover]

Thank you so much! I added the title! It def was an inspirational pic. You could also make pic poem based contests or a group where every week a pic is posted and so the poems go! :)

[Jyoti_Ablaze]

This is intense and gripping!
I loved the first two lines the most!
Awesome write.

[Rainslover]

Thank you so much! :)

[Insight "MH"]

Wonderful thought of being regretful of the mistakes of the past. Powerfully written piece.

[Rainslover]

Thank you so much!

[Insight "MH"]

You are very welcome.