If grief’s a black smoke
we’ll all be blind now.
Killings, murders, hate
are they nature’s calling?
Or we’re just all fan of dying?
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In response to OctPoWriMo 2016 by Morgan Dragonwillow‘s Day 21.
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The Naani is a stanzaic form found at Shadow Poetry and is most often an observation of human relations or current events although it can be open to any subject. Naani means “an expression of one and all”. The stanza form was introduced by Dr. N. Gopi an administrator at the Teluga University.
The defining features of the Naani are:
- stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains.
- syllabic, with a total syllable count of between 20 and 25 syllables.
I know right?! We will all be blind of it were. With the amount of violence in recent times, the world would have turned dark
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oh geez. that is so true, Ameena. 😦
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We would have all died instantly ….because by nature we love to nurture grief…
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oh that is so true. -_-
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Oh wow. 💖 💖
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awww. thank you, love!
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Fierce, Sister…good and Fierce!
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awww. love that word! 😀
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Yep, we do!
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yeah! 😀
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🙂
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Excellent, dark and thought provoking Rosema. I think the calling you refer to is not that of nature but of today’s media. We are bombarded so much, by the press, with the dark side of our world that we forget sometimes there is a balance with nature – providing some joy and goodness. Have a blessed weekend 🙂
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(as a Journalism graduate I want to counter you. HAHA). But yeah, that is actually true. I think there is an unsaid truth that bad news are newsworthy. Good news, aren’t so much.
Have a blessed weekend, too, Davy!
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Grief has smoke that blinds us, especially over untoward death (the kinds you cite). This truth has power, sister. Thank you for expressing it.
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thank you for reading it as i intended when i wrote it brother! I appreciate your words. 🙂
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Reblogged this on Creative Writing Reblogged.
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thank you! 🙂
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My thoughts are since people have been sinners, we’re often in opposition with nature. It doesn’t work with us. So the black smoke of hate (great image) indeed is death because we’re all sinners but there is hope. Great piece Rosema 🙂
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indeed there is hope my dear Mandi! 🙂
Thank youuu! ❤
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[…] Also written for… https://areadingwritr.wordpress.com/2016/10/21/natures-calling-a-naani/ […]
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Oh that last line is chilling and a clarion call for change. Bravo!
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clarion!!! (searching dictionary…) woooow!!! awesome comment! 😀 😀 😀
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Yay I introduced you to a new word. 😁
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you almost always do! HAHA
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😊 more to come!
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