My brain is linking prompts to a larger story. The emotion inverter for #hbp91 flips everyone's emotions and clues to escape the upside down are projected on a wall in #hbp87.
Clues lead to a coin from #hbp40 that bank robbers stole. They hide at a convenience store in #hbp81.
Procrastination.
Perspective comes with age they say
And mine has shifted as surely
As a man fumbling for focus
In a backlit scene.
Now I fret and regret how the scenes dissect
In front of a fragmented form.
And I grasp that, above all,
My past is just images a camera obscura
Projected on a wall.
#vss365 #hbp87
Camera obscura
Lenses project
What would you look like
In royal effect
Visual costumes
To fancy a change
A Cinderella wall
Transformed in the frame
#hbp87
A scene is projected on the wall over what's actually there - so many fissures & cracks. That better scene has a hint of classicism, maybe upside down classicism (Who can really tell the difference?).
Here apathy. Miles away, they fawn over it as the heat from the fissure burns you.
#hbp87 #vss365
The frozen snow crunches underfoot. Brisk air fills my lungs & stings my nostrils. I'm grateful for the silence in the woods. Nothing stirs. Before me, a wonder of white, brown, & sparse wintergreen. The cold settled. I walked numbly. Soon, only my breath and dreams will remain. #vss365 #hbp87
The wall held a fractured dream: a golden mansion swimming in amber light, upside down and rippling like water. Dust hung in the air, each mote a grain of memory, fleeting and untouchable.
#hbp87
"What's that?" She peered closely at one of the windows of the camera obscura. "There's someone standing by that window!"
"I think you've been out in the sun too long. There's nobody there. It may look magnificent outside, but the place is derelict inside. Nature has started claiming it."
#hbp87
Bossa nova played as Ignacius looked at the top-turned street playing out in his wall. The people moving like little shadow puppets, going about their lives completely unaware of existence.
He smiled, the long tip of his cigarette slanting. This was the best studio for his kind of aburdism.
#hbp87
‘Trust In Me’
Sometimes snakes can hypnotize you. 🐍
#hbp87 #writing #poetry #prompts #imagery #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
& my thoughts are racing like they’re from Daytona.
But everyone tells me it’s all good out there in the open. 2/2 #hbp87
My insides are all twisted & swollen with everything they refuse to process. I feel like I’ve eaten a lead ball ripped from a furnace. I’m sweating & have a spinal shiver that I can’t shake. My teeth & bones have been pumiced by sugar & salt…
1/2 #hbp87
#HBP87 Capturing a moment frozen like cave art. I was here. This is what I saw. It becames a tangible, easily recalled memory. Perhaps arcane to others but eternally precious to me. The magic of a pin hole admitting a modicum of light in the dark. Isn't it what we all seek? #prompt
World unbound as new
Focus captures and distorts,
Through gap, disturbing.
#hbp87
An angry couple in a strange room with an image.
"It's upside down?"
"I've seen stranger things than that."
"It's your fault."
"This isn't about me. You're projecting. "
Someone was projecting. The image's clues led to treasure, but they didn't have the curiosity to look.
#hbp87 #writingPrompts
Security was at work on the video, deciphering the image shot camera obscura on some dank wall. Slightly out of focus, dark, upside down, ancient looking though it was shot live. There was a crowd at an event and then—an explosion and chaos. The president called demanding answers!
#hbp87
Even the camera obscura projected on the wall mocked him. Ever since, Cosmo lost his singing voice, seeing his performance and hearing music irritated him. Out of all the gifts the gods handed out, why give him the talent of music? In his old age, he became a muted siren. #hbp87
#hbp87
"When was this picture taken?" I asked, heart thudding in my throat.
"It was taken in 1700," Milo replied, examining the camera as best he could.
"So, you're telling me this picture is over 300 years old?" I gasped. Shining from the camera, my own face was projected onto the wall.
They stared at the image on the wall. "He would have seen it like this?"
"Si, señora detective," Leonardo answered. "The obscura would throw it like this," he continued in his thick accent.
Detective Baker stroked her chin thoughtfully. "Mike, you son of a bitch; what were you looking for?" #HBP87
Photo: Camera obscura effect - The image of the New Royal Palace at Prague Castle (size aprox. 4 x 2 m) created at the attic wall by a hole in the tile roofing. The house has been repaired, it is no longer possible to see the image. Source: Gampe, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
Imagery: Camera obscura projected on a wall. #hbp87
