Roberta’s Writes – Reena’s Xploration Challenge #294

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I really like Reena’s intriguing prompts. This week, her prompts are as follows:

PROMPT #294

  • The dividing line
  • Threshold
  • Twilight Zone

Choose any one or more of the words to base your piece on.

Dividing the Pie

Society, a giant pie

Neatly cut, into thirds

Haves and have-nots

Educated and uneducated

Males and females

Each piece, sliced up further

The wealth divide:

The one percent

Super rich

Prosperous

Middle class

Working class

Below the poverty line

(What’s that?

Their diminutive piece assigned elsewhere?

A non-slice?)

Educated!

In what?

Sciences, the arts, or commerce

Fully literate, basically literate, illiterate

Sexuality, so complex:

Heterosexual

Homosexual

Bisexual

Gender, slice and diced

The pie pieces overlap

The filling oozes

Dribbles out

A chunk of fruit falls with a plop

Dividing lines

Can’t ever be maintained

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73 thoughts on “Roberta’s Writes – Reena’s Xploration Challenge #294”

  27. I agree with Norah and Luanne. This is a very serious and analytical piece of writing as well as pie. It sounds like the way I slice and serve pies – messy. Categories can be helpful for getting help and narrowing down diagnoses, but harmful if you have to stay put in one category. That’s one reason I didn’t want to get caught up writing about having cancer or widowhood under the guise of helping others. I don’t know enough to help. My experiences being in one category or another is much too small of a portion to make me an expert. We all have many facets to our lives. 🙂

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    1. Hi Marsha, you are quite right about not taking on a status or knowledge base we don’t actually have as individuals. I was comfortable to write about my sons’ medical issues as I am very well versed on both conditions. I didn’t get very technical but rather focused on where I gained upliftment and hope in my experiences. My aim was to offer a silver lining to people, no matter how bad their circumstances.

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      1. Your chapter was very emotional for me. I loved it and it helped me understand what my parents went through when both my brother and I had medical issues and were just two years apart.

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          1. I think you are right. I remember thinking about marriage as a kid imagining the perfect 1950s life. I would never have messed up hair. We’ve all seen how the Stepford Wives and others built on that theme worked out in that lifestyle! LOL

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          2. Haha, yes, with the ruffled aprons and the ribbons in their hair. I remember the front page of my Home Economics textbook telling us girls that we must change into a frock and tie a ribbon in our hair before our husbands came home. The next page taught us how to wash dishes.

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