Write Now Prompt for June 13, 2014

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Today’s Prompt:

Candles flickered in the silent room as he sat down to try to meditate for the first time.

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Here is a link to my Write Now Prompt for June 13, 2014. http://keenjal15m.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/a-mirror-that-reflects-bright/

Happy Reading!

Here’s my response to this prompt. I had a bit of fun with it, and it went a very different direction than I originally thought (I discovery write whenever I respond to these). I hope you like it.
https://kjamesp.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/write-now-prompt-june-13/

https://eastelmhurstagogo.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=964&action=edit&message=6&postpost=v2

Here’s mine. I tried to combine an Emily Dickinson.ish style with the Carmelite religious order (hey it’s about meditation)

Hi folks! Here’s my my link to today’s sentence, eerie reading!
http://the-cooking-and-life-goddess.com/2014/06/14/couldnt-resist-the-writing-challenge-set-by-todays-author-blogsite/
Cybs 🙂

QUIET: BLACK MAN MEDITATING
Candles flickered in the silent room as he sat down to try to meditate for the first time. He closes his eyes. “Now is the time for all good men to shut their traps and meditate their Asses off.” Concentrating on the flow of his breath, in an out, in and out in and.. Should I be counting this shit, or just concentrating on my breath? Damn! This shit is hard!

But didn’t JFK claim that ‘we do these things not because they are easy, we do them because they are hard’?

What would that rich Cracker know about hard, him being born with a silver spoon up his privileged ass?

Now counting again, ‘in and out, in and out, in a. . ..
Oh hell, isn’t there something more productive he could be doing stead of just sitting here cross-legged on this hard ass pillow trying to meditate. Who’s he fooling; do you know black folks don’t meditate?

Yeah; just like the old lie “Black men don’t go down South of the Border.”

How far did that lie get you?

How can I meditate with all those random thoughts intruding into my brain?

This shit is harder than it appears on the surface.

Wouldn’t it just be easier to do what he used to resort to?
Just get high.
Beats meditation every time.

The Zen Clock chimes. He sits up with a quick and violent movement
15 minutes? How in the hell did that happen?

Was I meditating? Maybe this shit works after all!