A new Friday means time for 100 Words here at Velvet Verbosity. If you’re wondering what this is all about, click the picture above to learn about the 100 Word Challenge. There’s still time to submit, I’ll add you here.

I am stunned that Lceel took it upon himself to write a 100 word Haiku. I’m impressed.

Words are bold, sometimes

writ large so we don’t miss them

they shout loud to us

young people are bold

sometimes brazen and foolish

bold without wisdom

our leaders are bold

and their bold has brought us war

where is the wisdom?

little kids are bold

they try to do things and learn

from things that don’t work

the things that cause pain

become that which they avoid

bold becomes a tool

what tools do they use?

those we have chosen to lead

what things do they learn?

discipline? respect?

humbleness? One thing well done –

they shout loud to us.

To read the full entry, click on the link above. My own submission this week comes after making a bold step in a new direction, my own direction:

To be bold is to live courageously, without fear, without skin. To walk in the world with the heart beating wildly at all that strikes fear in it, at all that causes it to swell and stretch, at all that would make it shrink behind its bony cage. Be bold I say, and do not let your heart beat feebly in your chest. Make it sing and swell and beat like a drum in your ears. Strike down fear when it rises, strike down illusion and delusion, strike down all that harms it, and let the heart speak its truth.

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