Hello, beautiful readers! For this week's Xploration Challenge #377, Reena shared a list of book titles to choose from and asked us to choose one title from the list below to use in our piece.
The Impossible Will Take a Little While (Paul Rogat Loeb)
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (Harlan Ellison)
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All (Laura Ruby)
No Filter and Other Lies (Crystal Maldonado)
Unpregnant (Jenni Hendricks and Ted Caplan)
I decided to go with Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby. I chose to write a haibun, which is a paragraph of prose and a haiku. I also added a word within the title though, technically, the rules didn't say we couldn't. 😉
There is a Native American folktale about two wolves that reside in each of us. One wolf is considered the good wolf and represents the positive attributes within us: joy, love, and kindness. The other wolf is considered the bad wolf and embodies the negative qualities like anger, resentment, and fear. Humans, though, are more complex than that. We are not two-dimensional creatures. We are much more multi-faceted and complex. Still, the lesson holds true: We have the power to choose where we spend our energy and what energy we share with the world. Choose wisely.
see thirteen doorways
wolves (linger) behind them all
choose which to nurture
Would you like to write a poem for one of the titles listed above? Join us here.
I guess we keep changing doors and facing the consequences of what the previous wolf did.
ReplyDeleteHumans tend to not learn lessons the first time. Thanks for stopping by, Reena! :-)
DeleteYes, choose wisely. Daily, sometimes minute by minute!
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting, Susi! :-)
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