CREATIVE CHALLENGE: A FEW MINUTES

In less than a few minutes,
You can smile at someone,

Smell a flower, hear the crickets
Chirping in the dewy grass,
Listen to the voice of silence,
Start dancing or start crying,
Say the ‘Yes, I do’ that will change
Your life forever,
or
Say the ‘No’ that you may regret later.

In less than a few minutes,
You can feel the bitterness of defeat

or

The thrill of victory,

The fear of uncertainty

or

The illusion of security.

In less than a few minutes,

You can love, share, forgive,

 Wait and always be who you are...

In less than a few minutes,

You can save one’s life
or

Make someone feel happy

and...

Realize that the eternity

Is not in a few minutes, not in a minute,

but,

In the current moment!

©Belita

CREATIVE CHALLENGE: FESTIVE

 

So

many

garlands!

So many lights!

It’s Xmas time,

Everywhere is bright!

Santa Claus will come to town,

Perhaps together with Mrs. Claus,

Carrying tons of gifts made by their elves,

However, not in large quantities to deliver

To each and every town’s unfavoured child

Who pains me whenever I see with his nose

Glued to the window display of a store,

Staring at one toy red car,

 

He would love to play with

As if doing it with

a

STAR!

©Belita

CREATIVE CHALLENGE: BEGINNINGS

CREATIVE CHALLENGE: BROTHERLY LOVE



My brother is a teddy bear like me,

Always close to each other we want to be,

We have fun as we travel together,

Either under fine or stormy weather,

At home, we feel relaxed in our corner,

Even if we are hugged by a foreigner,

We love each other, oh yes we do,

Never have we ever felt blue,

In winter, we aren’t at risk of catching flu,

In summer, we like getting fresh air,

On the window sill or on a deck chair,

Always close to each other we want to be,

We’re the teddy bears Sugar and Tea!

©Belita



CREATIVE CHALLENGE: BEHIND THAT CLOSED DOOR

 

Photo taken in Krakow (Poland) October, 2012

Behind that closed door,

Certainties and doubts lived together.

 Behind that closed door,

The shadow of the Holocaust

Started to be unfurled

Against many Jewish families

Who had to endure

 Unbelievable cruelty and suffering...

©Belita

CREATIVE CHALLENGE: JUNKYARD

 

Not stripped of many of my parts

I left the junkyard,

With no tears pouring out of my eyes

But with a smile on my face,

Now, sitting in a comfortable place,

Many passers-by look at me and see a beauty,

Even an aesthetically pleasing sight,

Others think I’m nothing else but an eyesore

Causing safety hazard as I did before,

No matter what I am labelled by strangers,

I feel happy... I am not abandoned anymore!

©Belita

CREATIVE CHALLENGE: FOOL

I seldom believed I knew nothing,

I often believed I knew everything,

All at the same time,

When I got it all wrong

People laughed and learned

Through my mistakes,

Why did it happen?

I made a fool of myself!

©Belita

 

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CREATIVE CHALLENGE: BURDEN

 



In silence, the burden is carried,

The burden of her life,

 The burden of absence,

Absence of her loved ones,

Emotional weight from her past.

Every time the sun rises

The burden brings her ageing,

Heavier weight,

More absences,

Shorter life!

©Belita

 

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CREATIVE CHALLENGE: YESTERDAY

Yesterday, one day more,

A day predicting the Future,

The Future teaching the Past,

The Past unveiling happiness...

©Belita

 

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CREATIVE CHALLENGE: FLY

Fly and feel free to be reborn after each flight,

Fly and find a place in the vastness of the sky,

Fly and have the sensation of being what you are not,

Fly and float on soft, puffy white clouds

As if you were a newly born bird.

Have a nice flight!

©Belita

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CREATIVE CHALLENGE: ORANGE

Orange... in his dream,

Awoken, he saw many lemons,

A sour deception!

©Belita

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