Blue

The color of wind swirling in the fall.

The color of the feeling of an unanswered call.

The colors of droplets swimming down a pane.

The color of the night when it’s driving you insane.

An angry ocean, whose waves curl.

The cold wind in a flag as you watch it unfurl.

The color of that heavy weight in your chest.

When things don’t work out, though you gave it your best.

The color you feel when your finger tips are cold.

The color you touch when your soul becomes old.

The color that surrounds you as you’re falling in a dream.

The color that you exude when you’re torn at seams.

The color of water as it moves, always, always running.

The color you feel when you realize you don’t like what you’re becoming.

Forever

Forever is where friendships go to die,

Where birds lost in sunsets fly.

Where relationships that I did invest,

Found its place and decided to rest. Bonds of love that would break “never”.

So it’s hard to reply when people ask,

“Do you believe in forever?”

Is it a word we even understand?

Eternity stretching without an end?

But we reduce to symbol and word.

Forever reduced to a sound that can be heard.

Compacted into a nice small clause.

Ignoring the word keeps going without pause.

Do we really understand words like “love” and “never”?

Yet even less we understand words like “forever”.

Writing Prompt: Gems and Crystals

 You live in a fantasy world named Krysalis that it inhabited by a human like race. They are just like normal people with one exception; they a born with a gem implanted somewhere in their body that enables them to work specific magic, depending on the gem and it’s location. Hand gems imply generally telekinetic like powers while forehead gems imply more telepathic based ones. Gems found on the back generally allow the user to fly or use their magic to create some sort of wings (the kind of wings depend on the gem of course and their magic concentration).

You were born with yours directly over your heart.

Jellyfish in Space

I have taken a brief break from my writing related posts to bring you this statement:

There are jellyfish who have been to space.

The fact that this statement is true makes me happy as well as utterly curios, as I am sure you are (and a little bit jealous now that I think about it. These little creatures have been to space and somehow I haven’t? The injustice!).

So, why exactly did we, as a human race, decide to send jellyfish to space? Don’t we already have enough weird hobbies?

The answer is actually quite simple: for science.

Funnily enough, this occurred all the way back in the 1990’s (and I’m only just now finding this out! My education has failed me!)

The long answer is it was for a project NASA came up with to launch a load of 2,478 jellyfish polyps. These creatures were contained within flasks and bags that were filled with artificial seawater. Another fun little sub-fact about this experiment is the species they sent into space were called “Moon Jellyfish”.

They then reproduced to where there were near 60,000 jellyfish orbiting our little planet. A whole giant sub group of space jellyfish had been born without any knowledge of Earth’s gravity.

Which was the point.

Scientists did this bizarre experiment to figure out how a jellyfish that developed in space would respond to earthly gravity, because, despite the sea creatures not having legs, they do have a sensitivity to gravity. Turns out a space jellyfish has more issues getting used to earth’s gravity when they were raised in space, implying that a creature raised space’s inner ear and overall body’s sense of gravity is impeded when they are raised in space with 0 gravity. In short, jellyfish, when raised in space, were found unfit for life on Earth.

So what does this prove?

Well it implies the effects being raised in space might have on a person and may mess up their sense of gravity as well. This is important for people to know if we ever want to pursue a space colony of sorts or what would happened if a child were raised on a space expedition.

So yeah! For science!

Writing Prompt: The Great Race

The time is during the industrial revolution. You are a bright young inventor who creates the design for a giant blimp of an airship. However your design is stolen and copied and produced by a rival company. But as you look over their ship, you realize that they had only stolen a rough draft version of your plans and that your is the better model. To prove yours as the better model and clear your name, you and the rival company take your ships on a race around the world.