Fiction evolves from reality.
Even Truth in stranger than Fiction
Again Fiction has the power
to initiate real stories.
Fiction is the reflection of Reality
and vice. Versa.
The measure of power of Fiction
depends to what intensity
it can influence readers.
The more the reader is engrossed
or impressed, more powerful is the Fiction.
Reality and Fiction apparently resemble
two poles of a magnet, attracting one another.
If Fiction be the shadow of Truth,
Truth is Shadowed by Fiction
Life is not a Continuous Function -
But contains chapters of discrete function
as several happenstances
producing Fiction of ruthless Truth
Traffic buzzing, racing and jamming brakes
People bustling on sidewalks and streets
Noise with everything, rushing, except for lines waiting
Voices, horns, a blur of activity all around
Then, there is the ride to return home
Empty road, widespread fields, open land
Mountain views with rivers and bright flowers
Peace settles in as my mind clears and heart slows
- It feels like heaven all around -
Heidi Sands
9/2/26
(C)opyright
A young bowler he liked to play cricket
In his career took many a wicket
the crowd he enthralls
as he shines up his balls
He tempts the Pommies to snick it
TABLE TENNIS
A keen young sportsman named Dennis
Favourite game is called table tennis
hits balls over the net
won many a set
A plumber when young an apprentice
VOTES VERSUS MONEY
(SIX HAIKU REFLECTIONS)
Our minority,
Is as poor as poor is:
Theirs are just as rich
Don’t beg me money.
Know that my vote is priceless:-
Lives lost getting it:-
Thus beg for my vote,
In winning democracy:
Money can’t buy it:-
Our minority
Will continue to support
Getting out the vote.
Begging for the vote,
Will get more support than the
Begging for money.
Our democracy
Can’t be purchased with money:
Seek votes to win it:-
As i consider, posterity and the multiverse
Of titular? Though my efforts be known as un-dignified, it observe at the very least they may become signified.'
Complexity
tangled, layered
multiplying, twisting, obscuring
knots of thought and motion
clearing, softening, opening
quiet, spacious
Simplicity
Ordinary love
comes in many shapes
and forms.
But
True love
comes once in a lifetime.
So when it knocks
on your heart's door,
answer it
welcome it
embrace it
and never let it go.
Ordinary love
can be destroyed
by careless whispers
petty jealousies
and other outside forces
But
True love
is protected by building
a strong foundation
two people
one thought
one vision
one heart
one promise
one love.
Ordinary love
can be easily destroyed.
But
True love
is totally different.
No matter what
the situation
it can be dealt with
and handled.
It's been said,
"what God has joined together,
let no one put asunder".
Ordinary love
comes in all shapes
and forms.
But
True love
can conquer all.
Not for shortage of stones did Stone Age end,
How a Saudi minister chose to fend
For Oil Age in some rage,
And yet, causing shortage,
Trump sure would render it a helping hand.
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Happenings | 05.04.2026 | completion, humour, political, limerick
Note: In a game of cartels versus competition and self-interest, when UAE withdrew from OPEC cartel, a Saudi minister reacted as shown in this ditty. UAE’s decision is not altruistic in favour of completion, in larger good of the world still. Yet alas, cartels and self-interest are common all over the world—overt or covert.
EXPECT LIGHTNING STRIKE
GOD TELLING TRUMP TAKE A HIKE
LEO HIM I LIKE
GRANDMA'S RECIPES ARE ILLEGAL ,
THEY GO AGAINST THE FDA.
DOCTORS , LAYERS AND SCIENCE
ARE WORRIED THEY WON'T GET PAID.
THE NATURE OF SCIENCE TURNS SOUR
WITH THE INTRODUCTIONS OF GMO'S
ALTERING EVOLUTION , INTO THE
DIRECTION OF LIFE UNKNOWN.
WITH REASON AND LOGIC DISTORTION
REALITY BECOMES A BLUR.
CAUSING MORTAL BEINGS AND THEIR
BELIEFS TO BECOME UNSURE.
MODIFICATION OF BIOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR
TURNS HUMANS INTO FREAKS OF
NATURE
CAUSING A WORLD OF CHAOS
AS SEEN THROUGH NOMANCLATURE
DOCTORS AND LAWYERS FOR SCIENCE
ARE PATIENTLY STANDING BY
EQUIPPED , ARMED AND READY
TO PROOVE NATURE IS A LIE.
ENTER , VIRTUAL REALITY
WHERE YOUR LIFE IS JUST A DREAM.
UNDER ARTIFICIAL INNTELLIGENCE
LIFE ISN'T WHAT IT SEEMS.
STEP BACK INTO GRANDMA'S KITCHEN
TAKE A SEAT AT THE KITCHEN TABLE.
LISTEN TO GRANDMA'S WISDOM ,
THAT'S ONLY IF WILLING AND ABLE.
Michael E.Harris
O4031026
Bare fact :
Exact,
to state
at best -
Nature :
Smarter
than our
Science.
Explore
Science.
Nurture
Nature.
Awesome
Nature :
Superb
structure.
SPORTS VERSUS LIFE
In sports, we are so together;
Collectively overcoming resistance:-
Ironically, we’re more together in sports,
Than we are in the challenging life we live ?
With a lost in sports, you get to play again;
But when you loose life, its all over for you:-
You can cancel a game and play it later;
But you can’t cancel life and live later:-
Let us in life, live more collectively than we do in playing sports.
Life is not a game; rather, it is the blessed reality of being in God’s grace:-
Religion versus culture
If the Dutch had adopted the Koran
Making churches into mosques would be in Holland
be different for it is today?
I don`t think so. Because of
their characters
and culture would have reminded them of active
travelling the world for a business opportunity.
Been Muslims in name only, as they are
Christians in the name just today
The Islamic rule that works in the backwater
of, say, Pakistan could not be applied
In the Netherlands, the people were too educated
to swallow wholesale the Islamic dogma
In the end, culture is more important than religion.
the flower was three inches
weed next to her, six feet
one of them is prickly
the other one is petite
the daisy had been there three days
weed appeared overnight
in a week daisy was one eighth of an inch high
fast-growing renegade weed has climbed into the sky
it was the last day of school in 1963
the teachers were as excited as adults can be
tug of war with a rope could land students in the pond
they wanted to get them all wet, it was a common bond
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