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[dosjustinho-blog]

Love is like a napalm bomb. - Yang Mu, “In the Midnight Cornfield” I once had a conversation with a friend after he put up a question on his WhatsApp status: “Do the ones you love, love you?” and we tried to find a common ground in understanding how each party process their doling out of love. We rambled on and queried the reality. But while we could not resolve the yardstick for the measurement of love, we agreed that loving requires the show of action and that presuming to be loved by one you love so much may be foolhardy. Yet, how is it that we care less about the ones that love us but we love the ones that care less about us? __________________ #shortstoriesof50 #50words #becausethisisnotprosepoetry #foreverjongbloed #jongbloed #poetsofinstagram #poetsofig #writersofinstagram #writersofig #writer #poet #writing #writingcommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/BwguAqtFFXj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=kh8usxcajpte

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The flower of beauty, fleece of beauty, too too apt to, ah! to fleet. - Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo” The pestilence of selfie has its hold the world over and anyone who has a smartphone mostly suffers from this disease. While capturing a moment is beautiful, where and when you do it is very important. The pageantry, the pride, the pomp that comes with participants in the art of taking selfies is incomparable. But sadly, people tend to use this art as a measure of enhancing their corporeal beauty — with filters that span from the weird to the utterly ridiculous — and gain acceptance from a largely virtual audience. ____________ #shortstoriesof50 #50words #becausethisisnotprosepoetry #foreverjongbloed #jongbloed #poetsofinstagram #poetsofig #writersofinstagram #writersofig #writer #poet #writing #writingcommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwfs5cnlzOo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=otuazhyzf9i5

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Do you believe in the supernatural? I believe in the existence of the material and the immaterial. A world were the living and the dead and the phantasmal cohabit. I think it is only proper that since there are things we can see, touch, feel and understand, there should be a contrast of things we cannot see, touch, feel and understand. The physical and the spiritual are, therefore, from the same mintage. ______________ #shortstoriesof50 #50words #becausethisisnotprosepoetry #foreverjongbloed #jongbloed #poetsofinstagram #poetsofig #writersofinstagram #writersofig #writer #poet #writing #writingcommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/BweBiaeFQEt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=u5wlstlfmivy

[dosjustinho-blog]

I have always found Thomas Hardy's taste and texture of pessimism very interesting. While people may be quick to point out that pessimism is not a good state of mind, I think, to a deep extent, the contentment in knowing that evil in this world is inevitable is a great thing. However, full plunge into pessimism may be too bitter a pill, but in every case, it strengthens our mind to judge from the real and the ideal. Consequently, this work, like many to come, is branded "Hardyans" as a spill over of my love of Thomas Hardy's certainty that things will definitely turn out badly (a part of the life-coin). So, these Short Stories of 50 — 50-word stories — are re-branded to give coherence to the powerful mythos of pessimism. Lest I forget, I am not a sadist. ________________ #shortstoriesof50 #50words #becausethisisnotprosepoetry #foreverjongbloed #jongbloed #poetsofinstagram #poetsofig #writersofinstagram #writersofig #writing #writingcommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/BwcoNGjlyqb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pglvx8orky7m