The Tarot of Corridors
There are many corridors in this life and we all must chose which we walk down.
There is a corridor of knowledge and a corridor of uncertainty. One takes you from station to station from research to learning. The other is a dance; forward or backwards. Will I, won’t I, or will they?
In the corridor of mirrors, loves from past lives haunt you. But your reflection is unsatisfying, your mirror self is made of wax.
Where in the corridor of death you must fight, tooth and nail through the bloody mess and utilise your heaviest artillery. There may be much confusion with scant chance of success, but you must not surrender.
Perhaps you will visit the corridor of memories, where Munroe sleeps? For the ghosts who live on in celluloid, song or script are also entombed in stone.
We all must pass through the winding corridor of life, curling against it’s self in a figure of 8, helix like. It teaches balance, hollow against solid, here we learn perception. Shadows form outlines and deceptive silhouettes abound, but can we tell which are cast by the living?
The corridor of sand will sink you unless you learn to ensnare the girl. Whereas the corridor of shame knows your name, and you better hope that’s not your picture posted.
‘Swallow The Bits That Fit Your Needs’ is scrawled on the walls of the corridor of chameleons. Just be weary of changing your colours.
There are many corridors in this life and we must chose which we walk down.
Do not think that there is only one for you, for you may walk all of them in time, or without being aware, walk many simultaneously. And though you can not avoid it please be assured, the corridor of darkness is the one that ends in light.
Rivka Jacobs
Very mystical but also psychologically insightful! I like how you contrast the “corridor of death” with the “corridor of darkness.” This is a significant distinction in the Tarot.
This read like a kind of prose-poem, almost sounded like the Oracle of Delphi reading a prophecy! I enjoyed it very much. I almost used the Tarot theme in my story. I still might do so in the future. I don’t know how seriously I take the idea of “fortune telling,” but I agree with the way you depict the paths in the story above; I look at the Tarot pictures and symbols and narratives as archetypes of the human subconscious and useful in revealing human truths.
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Bridgeen Gillespie
I very much like the idea of prose poems. And I Couldn’t agree more about the Tarot Rivka. That’s how i view them too.
I had fun with this peice, I kept having the phrase ‘corridor of knowledge’ crop up in my head but little else by way of inspiration. So i googled ‘corridor of’, and wrote my story based on the results!
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Nicolas Papaconstantinou
How beautiful and thoughtful. I quite like this sort of prose poem myself, though I tend to prefer meditations like this when they’re woven into something bigger, but there are enough ideas in this one that it works on its own.
Lovely, ma’am!
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