Live Virtual Group Session: 12PM EDT June 20th 2025

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For this session we took a close look at the paiting “The Rapture” by Sean Earley, posted below.

Our prompt was: “Write about being suspended.”

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The Rapture by Sean Earley

Credit: John Earley. Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Paul Bridgewater

3 thoughts on “Live Virtual Group Session: 12PM EDT June 20th 2025”

  1. Trevor Hebert's avatar vibrantfreelyb4ce26f285

    “The Suffering” (Thank you for the inspiration, Tony!)

    Suspended in animation, taken from my own creation, living in a simulation, I find myself in a quiet chaos.

    Wreckless abandon be dawned, I’ve lived my life time and time again to fulfill my ambitions… only to have silent days off.

    Isolated through career and no energy, I caress myself and console the very culprit, the enemy of my reality: Me.

    I see the path I’ve taken,

    With good intentions and noble goals forsaken

    To walk a lonely road, Im brazen

    Not the road less traveled but one that I’ve created and cultivated

    Cold and alone.

    All this to show all that glitters isn’t gold.

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  2. michele348's avatar michele348

    About being suspended~~~

    I am suspended in mid-air,
    like a helium balloon…
    from where, I do not know,
    just dangling helplessly.

    I look below
    and see humanity scurrying about
    at a frantic pace, not knowing where to go.
    I hear blaring sirens and ear-numbing screams
    and there is mass confusion…
    everyone is searching but never finding.

    What has happened here, this world I have inhabited
    for so many years?
    I no longer recognized it; it is foreign to me.

    Are we, you and I, facing our last days
    for the error of our ways…
    for our anger and hatred of each other
    and the mistreatment of our beloved Earth?

    And so, I float here, suspended.
    Will I rise upward, or will I fall downward
    to the mass hysteria I see below?

    I hope and pray my Creator has mercy
    upon my soul and on all the souls
    I see below.

    For my sins, for my most grievous sins,
    I ask for forgiveness.

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