I would like to present a word challenge. Thanks to Elusive Trope for encouraging me to get off my lazy ass and actually try to get more readers involved in this weekly game. I would never have attempted it if you had not pushed me, ET!
The premise is simple. I provide one phrase every Thursday, an incomplete string of words, and it is up to you to complete it in your own, inimitable way. However you like, taking it in any direction you want.
If you like the concept, please play along and post the complete challenge on your blog and leave a link in the comments section below.
I love the mental exercise, I hope you do too!
This week’s phrase –
“It is the longest night….. ”
My attempt –
“……….. The one spent in the grave.”
Your turn!
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I need to fill this up with much better content than I had populated it with earlier. Why I write a blog maybe? I started blogging in 2009 or thereabouts. I was a newly turned atheist and wanted to converse with others of the same persuasion. We're not exactly a big population group in India! It didn't go very well and I sort of lost interest, posting a few things now and then.
I got a lot more regular over the last few months and have been posting almost daily since February '15. There were many reasons why I gradually became more regular in posting, but one way or the other, here I am! So this blog has taken shape, being at different points in time my showcase, my comedy club, my art gallery, my book club, my therapist, my close friend, my innermost self....but always my little corner of the world. You are all welcome to visit and I hope you stay awhile!
A few points about me because I don't want to lead anyone on(and trust me this does become an issue more often than I'd care to admit).
I'm Indian, the brown-skinned variety; if race, ethnicity or skin colour is an issue, you don't have to get to know me any more than what you see on my blog.
I'm 40, so if age is an issue, please be informed accordingly.
I was a doctor, an ophthalmic surgeon for 10 years before I quit practice.
hbhatnagar 
Thanks a lot, Dr B for the teasing prompt.
Here’s my very first try…
It’s the longest night, this never ending maddening night of passion, before the mundanity of love takes over.
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Posted by neelwritesblog | 22/03/2016, 3:49 PMGreat completion, Neel! Thanks for joining in! 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 22/03/2016, 4:47 PMhttps://wordpress.com/post/danialtijuana.wordpress.com/187
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Posted by Danial Tijuana | 21/03/2016, 7:26 AM… because Eliot and i (as always) were together as one — as so many things are — and
The yellow fog rubbed its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke rubbed its muzzle on the window-panes,
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,
Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,
And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.
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Posted by Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog | 21/03/2016, 3:25 AMThat’s a lovely, evocative image! Thank you Tom, for sharing it. 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 21/03/2016, 6:55 AMI am sure to take up this challenge. Tks.
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Posted by neelwritesblog | 20/03/2016, 9:56 PMI’d love to read your completion of this phrase. Thanks for commenting. 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 21/03/2016, 6:43 AMMy first try at this:
“It is the longest night….. ”
…..this final farewell, my hand resting on yours as the light slowly fades from your eyes.
https://rivrvlogr.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/the-longest-night/
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Posted by rivrvlogr | 20/03/2016, 7:15 PM…in the history of Humanity.
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Posted by tedgiffin | 20/03/2016, 8:38 AMThe Longest Day and Night? Thanks for the WW2 reference, Ted! 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 20/03/2016, 9:15 AMI saw this on the Elusive Trope’s blog and thought I’d contribute a phrase. It’s a bit long, but I have an excuse.
“It is the longest night…of the cycle, when sea beasts heave themselves onto the dark shore, the earth opens, and the buried beasts shake off the chains of root and stone, and in the crow black sky, winged beasts wheel and turn, searching for the red throb of human heat.”
https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2016/03/19/two-phrase-story-the-longest-night/
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Posted by Jane Dougherty | 19/03/2016, 11:06 PMYou have every reason to, this is a beautiful image, raw and feral. 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 20/03/2016, 9:02 AMThank you! It was exactly my kind of prompt 🙂
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Posted by Jane Dougherty | 20/03/2016, 1:49 PM….toward which my nostalgia gravitates.
http://elusivetrope.com/2016/03/19/damaged/
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Posted by Elusive Trope | 19/03/2016, 9:30 PMI remember you said you like to do challenge themes. Do you want to participate the 7 day nature photo, Dr. Hb? If you do, I’d love to nominate you for this one next week.
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Posted by Amy | 17/03/2016, 9:52 PMI’d love to, though it will be a little while before I take up the challenge, there’s a major project at work coming up on Monday. 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 17/03/2016, 10:52 PMOkay, I’ll put you on my day 7 — the last one. 🙂 Thank you for the heads up, Dr. Hb! Hope it won’t be some long nights…
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Posted by Amy | 17/03/2016, 11:15 PMThanks Amy!
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 18/03/2016, 6:15 AMAre you going to be busy for weeks (?)
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Posted by Amy | 18/03/2016, 6:18 AMThe project kicks off Monday and should end in the first week of June, if all goes well. I’ll try to take up the challenge early though, midsummer in India doesn’t leave much of nature to experience and photograph! 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 18/03/2016, 6:21 AMWow, a long project! You can use your archived photos if you like. Mid summer is hot in Texas too, but dry hot. 🙂
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Posted by Amy | 18/03/2016, 6:25 AMI can imagine!
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 18/03/2016, 6:31 AMAnd it’s so nice of you to remember! 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 17/03/2016, 10:53 PMYours is excellent.
“It is the longest night….. so naturally, my longest nightmare.”
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Posted by LionAroundWriting | 17/03/2016, 8:50 PMThank you, LionAroundWriting, and thanks for participating! 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 17/03/2016, 10:51 PMI have been one acquainted with the night… (~ Robert Frost)
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Posted by Amy | 17/03/2016, 8:10 PMMay it be a short acquaintance indeed! Thanks for contributing, Amy! 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 17/03/2016, 10:50 PMGood mental workout 🙂 🙂
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Posted by Amy | 17/03/2016, 11:13 PMIt is the longest night, his last night which he sees from the night sky
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Posted by pecsbowen | 17/03/2016, 8:09 PMWhere does the sun rise?
Thanks Pecsbowen, for joining in! 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 17/03/2016, 10:49 PMSo I decided to call it a day.
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Posted by Lakshmi Srivatsan | 17/03/2016, 6:36 PMWelcome back! So long nights get re-classified? 😀
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 17/03/2016, 10:48 PMThat I had ever spent hiding in the aardvark enclosure; normally a keeper would find me and throw me out with a jovial “get fucked you creepy bastard”, but now it seemed I had evaded their gazes.
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Posted by stevolom | 17/03/2016, 4:52 PMAah, the aardvark! Amazing animal, and an absolute astonishment!
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 17/03/2016, 6:31 PM“…the one spent on call on the OB floor during the winter solstice.”
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Posted by Victo Dolore | 17/03/2016, 4:18 PMOh that brings back memories! Thanks Victo, for joining in! 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 17/03/2016, 6:17 PMIt is the longest night,
and yet the shortest goodbye,
whence my soul took flight.
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Posted by impostorpawn | 17/03/2016, 4:01 PMBeautiful juxtaposition, thanks for contributing, impostorpawn! 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 17/03/2016, 4:08 PMThe one spent with her
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Posted by bhavpreet | 17/03/2016, 1:59 PMThat passed oh-so-quickly! Thank Bhavpreet, for taking part in the challenge! 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 17/03/2016, 10:55 PMI knew it … Chandigarh and Rock … Always , everywhere …
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Posted by bhavpreet | 17/03/2016, 11:34 PMBut waiting for the enemy to come over the hill made each minute like an hour
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Posted by looneybitch | 17/03/2016, 12:40 PMI think this is the first war reference anyone has made here. Thanks for that great completion, Jackie! 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 17/03/2016, 1:08 PMYou know me…fighting is in my veins!
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Posted by looneybitch | 17/03/2016, 5:49 PMHave never tried But I’d like to give a try for sure.
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Posted by krupajnanda | 17/03/2016, 11:39 AMThank you for commenting, I’ll await your shot at this. 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 17/03/2016, 1:07 PMI will try! 🙂
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Posted by krupajnanda | 17/03/2016, 1:08 PM“..and my depressants hadn’t helped, except to make me insomniac too”
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Posted by Mon ☠ | 17/03/2016, 11:25 AMI know the feeling….
Thanks for joining in, Mon! 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 17/03/2016, 1:05 PMThanks again, ET!
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 20/03/2016, 8:59 AMThank you Jane, for the linkup and for joining in! 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 20/03/2016, 8:59 AMThanks for the linkup, and for joining in!
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 21/03/2016, 6:02 AMThank you so much, Aadhira for the link up. I hope I get more people enjoying this game. 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 22/03/2016, 9:27 AM