Saturday 30 August 2014

Conflict


Hello, my old friend’, we never say when I see him & he sees me too. 

Image credit:  Dick Blick Art - Used with permission fro m Magpie Tales
I can feel the soldier across the border too is feeling blue...

Our lives are so distinct, yet joined with permanent glue...

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Lives are just targets- sacrificed for borders, without ado… 

Why war? Whose battle? What conflict? No clue...



This post is a part of Write Over the Weekend, an initiative for Indian Bloggers by BlogAdda.

My 55-Word Poem for-
BlogAdda-WOW- Hello, my old friend
Two Shoes Tuesday - Target 
Five Sentence Fiction- Conflict 
Magpie Tales#244

38 comments:

  1. Excellent!:):)

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    1. Thanks for stopping by & for your maiden comment on my Blog :)
      Glad you liked it. Do keep visiting :)

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  2. remarkable 55ier for the given prompts

    The Last Call

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  3. Nice post, smartly combined the prompts and yes!!! so true

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  4. Lovely post. the futility of war is highlighted.

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  5. Good one Anita!

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  6. Good one Anita. Endless nightmares, struggle, fights, and most of the times they just have to stop to wonder why did it come to this.

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    1. Thanks Shanx.
      True. We all wonder about the futility of it all...

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  7. This is a conflict in direct sense of us as beings..

    Richa

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    1. That's unfortunate though humans are the most intelligent, Richa.

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  8. the last line!!! brilliant Ani :) Loved it!!

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    1. Those are unanswered questions...
      Glad you liked it, Divsi :)

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  9. How terribly, tragically true. The use of 'permanent glue' is a very powerful image!

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    1. Yes, very tragic Shailja.
      Glue is the word as Soldiers on either side of the border have to be glued to one another. Lives are dependent...

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    1. Thanks for reading & for sharing your comment, Ranu :)

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  11. So much said in a few short lines.Liked it.

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  12. True, this is how it is, Anita! Well penned!

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    1. Yes, Rahulji, sad that things are this way...
      Thanks :)

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  13. So true! You are a master in combining prompts, Anita :-)

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    1. Thank you so much for your kind words, Uma :)

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  14. Anita, this was powerful, intense, and so well done. I agree with you entirely. We cannot wage war to effect peace, we cannot continue to destroy lives and families over politics, borders, and old men's games. It is up to us to say ENOUGH!

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    1. Truly Josie.
      Enough is enough. Wonder when everyone will realize this...

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  15. O this one is powerful. Short but deep in its message. Very nice, Anita!

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Your words mean a lot to me.

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