Prompt #61 “Toska”
William Blake
This week’s prompt is “Toska”
“No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody or something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.” – Vladmir Nabokov
The definition offers multiple avenues for exploration your job is simply to chose one and explore it in depth 😉
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I’d never heard of toska – what an incredible word and concept! Fantastic prompt!! 🙂
Thanks so much I just learned it and thought I need to make a prompt haha
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I was in a state of Toska for 15 years and then she came back into my life for a moment. She left leaving nothing but sad memories and sadder words… This too will pass
That is devastating
I promised myself I wouldn’t continue writing of what happened these last 18 months… Never heard from her again… I guess I got the closure I had sought…
I hate when they disappear I find it hard to understand and move on. I recently went to a party and encountered a friend whom I was very close to but had stopped contacting me and I found it quite painful seeing her again. We never had a falling out but something happened that I do not comprehend
I knew she would come back into my life. I prayed that she would and indeed she did… Messed up on prescription meds, alcohol and coke. I tried to get to a place in her life where she thought about her real self.. I had her light a candle.. If just that.. She said she was coming here but then fate changed things and that was it. It’s not just sad, I don’t even know what to call it… I knew she wasn’t the woman she was 15 years ago.. But I knew the real Jen… This too will pass…
Such an intense and tragic story I am sending you positive vibes
This sort of reminds me of my Sunday Whirl piece today:
So I’m going to add your prompt link (in just a moment)
http://juleslongerstrandsofgems.wordpress.com/2014/06/22/sw-166-praying-for-water/
I am so happy to have you XD
I did not realize you did so many ‘challenges’ or ‘prompts’ – if I only had the time!! I did write the Sunday Whirl piece first. Sometimes it is fun to, as I say; ‘stuff the prompt’ see how many prompts I can stuff into one piece – this worked quite the other way around and I learned something new too! Thank you.
I love hosting challenges XD You are always welcome and I don’t mind if you combine prompts
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