Wednesday, February 04, 2026

1867 - The Renewal

 

 Image: ChatGPT but with a little human intervention

The Sunday Whirl presented these twelve words for us to use in a creative writing piece.  
below renew weaves through cloaks holy untethered tendrils gods spark ash wonder

Poets and Storytellers had the prompt words "flesh" and "spirit" - I merged the two prompts.



The Renewal

Whether you believe
In the gods above
(And in worse below),
Or in the spark of fate
Or in holy interventions,
The tendrils of life
Are largely untethered
And extremely tenacious—
Nothing can cloak or diminish
The wonder of it.


And, without doubt,
There is wonder—
Wonder at how 
Life weaves its cloth;
How flesh becomes spirit,
Passes through ash
Returning once more as flesh.
Continuum.


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10 comments:

  1. Good use of the words and an excellent prompt combination. Descartes said doubt is the origin of wisdom and fuels growth towards the truth (painful as that might be ) I agree with him.

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  2. oh, this is good...worth the visit!

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  3. A beautifully realised poem. You keep excelling yourself!

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  4. Gorgeous poem I especially love The tendrils of life/ Are largely untethered/ And extremely tenacious

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  5. Good job of merging the Prompts.

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  6. There is a heaviness in your words - beautifully evoked with your choice of language. I suppose feelings and losses do not stop but rather become integrated into ourselves - Jae

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  7. The circle of life and the cycle of life .... loved it

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  8. It is the wonder of it all that keeps me so enchanted

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  9. Gorgeous poem! I loved that second stanza

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  10. Whatever the human intervention in your art, I love it ... the poem you gifted us is incredibly insightful, beautiful.

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