The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 8 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Flick

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 6 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Relief

'Baffle': Sehri Tales selections, Day 6

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 5 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Deny

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 4 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Promise

Be a tree Get wet in sorrow’s shower and you’ll recover. From envy’s scorching sun gather strength

Smoother violence fills our hearts like charming splinters. The irony is I am the first of my women

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 3 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Watermelon.

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 2 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Rescue

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 1 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Ignite.

How do I tell her, that things often don't work out the way you expect them to, / And that you are, in fact, alone in this

I've lived as her; / I've known my mother’s plight.

Years later, when I would no longer live in my parents' room and grow to have my own,/ I would disregard all the hours I had spent by the window staring at beetles hiding.

I took a lonely stroll  on the hollows of your cheeks

We will chase after stringless kites, Down the road

I heard myself speak today It made me want to Cut out my tongue.

For eons piano keys unmoved Lay silently asleep

But I bloom like a flower:/ Soft and strong.

Autumn transcended Winter– / Crispness in the air fell pale.

rise, rise—now evening dies: sun-born in valleys with burning olive trees—where  women like me plod one day at a time,