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Super Powers

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Super Powers

In our wider world of pomp and dollar,
somehow power makes us smaller.
Distracts us from the metaphor
of what a super power’s for.

Those powers we seek In the vast world
wait within us to be unfurled.
In that world we’re given to create,
we hold the key to every gate.

We’re given vision, strength and power
to make a minute of an hour,
to leap ahead or lag behind
in our universe of mind.

I soar the heights. I swim the sea,
and delve the depths to try to free
those powers that I’ve found to be
in that vast space inside of me.

 

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The Go-between

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                                                       The Go-between

The Prompt: A Bird, a Plane, You!––You get to choose one superpower. Pick one of these, and explain your choice:

  • the ability to speak and understand any language
  • the ability to travel through time
  • the ability to make any two people agree with each other

I can’t think of any power greater than that of being able to make two people agree with each other.  Imagine its impact on negotiations between countries as well as with terrorist organizations such as Isis. The only problem would be the life I’d have to live to make use of those powers.  I would have to be a politician or lawyer in order to have access to people who can really make a worldwide difference, and with this power, I would be so effective that I doubt I’d have much of a personal life of my own as I’d always be traveling to solve one dispute or another.

On a personal level, to really enable people to see where those with opposing viewpoints are coming from would be of such immediate help that I can imagine being called in to mediate all sorts of disagreements between neighbors, friends and relatives. Messy divorces would be a thing of the past around me–either the divorce itself or the bickering over a settlement.  Schoolyard bullies might be better understood and quashed. Gang activity could be ameliorated. Donald Trump could be brought to his knees and silenced, hopefully.

World peace would be reason enough to sacrifice my other two major “wishes” of being able to time travel and speak any language in the world.  Guess I’ll have to save those wishes for the next inevitable repeat of this prompt.

 

Blink!

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                                                                        Blink!

Against my will, I’ve been granted the ability to appear and disappear at will.  I don’t really think I’d use my newfound talent much with one exception.  Doesn’t everyone have that one person or more that they dread meeting? Chances are, they are prone to talking–a lot–about people you have never met and will never meet, totally overlooking voicing any questions about your life or even giving you an opening to switch the topic of conversation.  You see them as you enter a restaurant, and there they are.  In a split second, they will see you and If they see you, they are apt to wave you over and ask you to share their table and all you want is to sit, pull out your device of choice and have a nice meal while reading blogs or emails or listening to an audio book.

Blink!  You disappear, then reappear around the corner  on your way to a different restaurant, because it’s hard to place an order when you are invisible.

 

The Prompt: You have a secret superpower: the ability to appear and disappear at will. When and where will you use this new superpower? Tell us a story.

Only one day until I leave for the beach.  If I don’t get posted for the next two days, I hope you use it as a chance to catch up on one of my other 1,559 blogs that I’ve published over the past two years.  I don’t even  remember most of them.  That’s not much of an incentive for you to read them, is it?  Ha.  I should be back to the old grind on the 16th!!!

 

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