Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
Reena asks us to describe ourself, our life,
or both in 6-10 sentences and, using AI,
create an image inspired by what we wrote.
Tag: Reena’s Xploration Challenge
Rising Storm
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
Reena offers us two inspiring images for
our story or poem. We may use one or both.
My Thoughts On Hemingway
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
Reena has chosen two lines from an essay on
Shakespeare by James Baldwin and asks us to
respond in a poem or story, including one or both
lines. My line is: “That is why he is called a poet”.
What Remains
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
Reena asks us to respond by using her
prompt lines or going with our own take.
Rehearsal
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
Reena has shared an image and this quote
by Albert Camus to use as our inspiration:
“Communication is impossible with slaves.”
Cosmic Connection
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
Reena has offered us a choice of quotes
with a twist to use as our inspiration. I
have selected: “We are all made of
stardust, trying to remember the sky”.
Not Not Truth
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
Our focus is on ‘fiction’ as Reena asks:
What constitutes fiction in the post-
truth era? How thin or distinct are
the lines between fact and fiction?
Through Kaleidoscope Eyes
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
The image below is my inspiration.
Beatitudes of the Mundane
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
Our challenge is focus on the mundane.
Do we find it boring or interesting?
This is my interpretation.
Downstream: Mirror Cinquain
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
Our challenge is to ponder the words below
and use them in a piece of any form or size:
light ~ fall ~ current ~ break
Continue reading “Downstream: Mirror Cinquain”The Chase
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge,
which is to write a poem or story as
inspired by parataxis and hypotaxis.
Vertical City: Mirror Cinquain
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
Our challenge is to write a poem or story
as inspired by the image shown below.
Light In The Window
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
Our challenge is to write a poem or story
as inspired by the image shown below.
Gilded Quiet
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
The theme is to choose a quote to work with
in the juxtaposition of luxury and simplicity.
Atlas, Condemned
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge
where our inspiration is the triptych shown below.
The Turn
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge
where our inspiration is ‘changing seasons’.
The Veil
Written for Rena’s Xploration Challenge
where our inspiration is the word ‘numinous’.
Absurd Contradiction: Both Sides of the AI Coin
Written for Rena’s Xploration Challenge
where we consider the irony of AI. The
image seen below is our inspiration.
Here’s where the prompt took me.
The Preservers
Written for Rena’s Xploration Challenge;
the image seen below is our inspiration.
Here’s where the prompt took me.
A Moment After
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge,
where she has given us the sentence below as
a thought-starter. Here’s where the prompt took me.
“A thought brushed my palm, then scattered like a startled bird.”
Showing Up
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge,
where we are taking a rather broad look at
AGE-ING, and the relationship between
generations. This is my story.
Between The Snowflakes
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge,
where we are encouraged to wrap our heads
around the word ‘elusive’. Here’s my take.
Ringside
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
The genre is fantasy and the situation is:
You are doom-scrolling late in the night
and you reach somewhere you’d never
expected to be. Here’s my take.
Only One Way
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge –
to write a story, poem, etc. using the
prompts shown below. Here’s my response,
based on my experience with pedantic piano teachers.
A Clockwork Copper
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge –
to write a story, poem, etc., inspired by the
image shown below. Here is my response.
The Shortness of Self
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge –
to write a story, poem, etc., inspired by
a line from Ayn Rand’s “We the Living”.
Here’s where the prompt took me.
Who She Was: A Waltmarie
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge;
the image shown below with its caption was
my inspiration. Here’s where the prompt took me.
Vigil: A Haibun
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge
where the word this week is “inchoate”.
Also for RDP Saturday and the word “eggs”.
This is where the prompts took me.
The Promise They Carry
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge
where the theme this week is “peace”.
This is where the prompts took me.
Getting Closure
Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge 411.
The following quote is suggested as our muse:
“It was not my idea, but it happened.”
This is where my imagination took me.
