How beautiful.
Gently rushing,
lightly kissing
chunks of boulders you passed.
How calm.
Silently whispering,
softly creating
ripples and plopping sounds.
If you stayed that beautiful that night, my family and I would not be homeless. If your shy waters remained calmed and your current remained consistent, undisturbed, our community wont be in this stinky evacuation center.
Should I blame you or should I blame that storm for destroying the place we call home?
Should I blame your powerful flow or should I blame typhoon’s strong blows for turning our lively neighbourhood into rubble of woods and stones?
Tell me.
Word count: 100 words
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Photo credit: Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
In response to Friday Fictioneers prompt for 18 March 2016.
Friday Fictioneers is a weekly writing challenge hosted by the generous Fairy Blog-Mother Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, where a photo is used as a prompt for a piece of fiction.
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Wow! I think you literally just took my breath away. I need to go find a tissue now.
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Oh that is too much. 🙂 Thank you sooo much!
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Such a powerful story in poetry and prose that hits home for many of us who have witnessed the power of a floods. Creative and wonderfully written, Rosema 🙂
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Wow! Thank you so much, Christopher. Water can really be dazzling yet montrous when typhoon occurs.
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On behalf of Christopher, you are welcome:)
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There goes my zombie brain.. Sorry Thomas. Of course I know you are Thomas but yeah.. My brain has been into stresses recently soo.. Yeah. Sorry, Thomas!:(
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No need to apologize, Rosema. Sometimes it is easy to become confused, especially when we are doing so many things at one while trying to navigate the stresses of day to day life 🙂
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OH thank you sooo much for understanding my dear friend. -_-
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Interesting question and POV in wondering whether to blame the water or the typhoon. Lovely poem in the beginning. At the end, the girl seems sad and confused. Realistic view I think, even if you are coming from a poetic perspective.
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Thank you, Mandi! My country has been victim of deadly floods already and it has been a regular oocurrence every year. That is why this felt so real. 🙂
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Sorry to hear that. It was an excellent piece!
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Thank you, Mandi! ❤
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Beautiful and sad poetry and prose, Rosema! I remember Haiyaan. Wept for the people of your country. I raised money for it with my Green (Environmental) Team at the school where I taught.
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Oh wow! Thank you so much for such a generous act, Vijaya. That is somehow the inspiration of this piece. Flood, the killing floods have been a regular occurence in my country. And that Haiyan is just the worst.
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It’s hard to blame a typhoon or a river, and yet, I can imagine the pain and anger the people might have had towards both.
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Yes. That is true. They have no one to blame, or maybe they can blame God who created both the stream and the storm.
Thank you for reading, Vijaya!
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Strange, these didn’t show up on my window; I came to your page, and saw these responses from you! WP is acting weird, these days.
In any case, you’re most welcome, Rosema!
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That is true. I also missed a lot of comments and even those I replied on never showed up. I believe WordPress is experiencing some errors. -_- Or maybe I am too noisy? 😀 Haha!
Thank you, Vijaya! 🙂
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A beautiful heartfelt poem, and story!
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Thank you, PJ! This is inspired by the incident that I told about you before. The flood and the strong typhoon.
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That would naturally make it a very powerful piece!
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That is true. 🙂
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beautiful though sad story, this is an intense read. Your prose is so poetic.
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Thank you, Mel! I am used to writing with rhymes, maybe? 🙂
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You are a master rhymer 🙂
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Haha! Don’t know if it is actually good or bad? 😀
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it’s great! You can become a rapper 🙂
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Hahahhaha! Rapper! That’s the last thing on my mind. Hahaha
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Well they do make a living rhyming…you could write their rhymes while they busta move! 😉 Possible career move? MTV fame?
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Hahaha! That is a possible idea, Mel! We’ll never know! 😀 😀 😀
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True, that is so true 🙂
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❤❤❤
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😀
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WOW, Rosema–this is so intense, as Melinda said; a phenomenal write, dear heart!
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Wow! Thank you for that! HAha! Phenomenal is something really BIG! 😀
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Yes it is BIG!
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Haha. Thank you!
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Welcome!
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