Written for: Poets and Storytellers United
Weekly Scribblings #22: It Takes a Bit of Discipline (posted by Rommy)
“For this week’s prompt, I’d like us to shape our words around the idea of discipline—when it’s helpful, when it’s harmful or any take you have on the idea of discipline. One new prose or poetry piece per person is welcome, fiction or non-fiction.”
Didn’t I tell you
not to enter that house?
Please do not turn
that doorknob. Shrieks
echo, moans fill
hallways. Spirits
call. You scream.
I warned you, but
you have no discipline.
purplepeninportland 
They never do have it in horror movies, do they? LOL… no matter how much we shout at the TV that this is a very bad idea.
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They just never listen.
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I love it when poems bring forth visions of the past …. like when one of my little boys ran without any fear into one of those Halloween Haunted House things. He is 57 and still remembers the shock, but can at least laugh about it today. Thanks for the memory.
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My pleasure.
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Some disciplines are earned the hard way!
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. . . or it’s too late.
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Ha, serves ’em right.
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Exactly!
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Hahahahaha I enjoyed this one immensely, Sara!! 💝💝
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Thanks, Sanaa!
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Humans advancement has grown by our daring to to do things and try things out but sadly we make mistakes and fail to value the world we live in and the people we live with.
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Elegantly stated, Robin.
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Temptation overwhelms discipline so many times
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Tough decisions.
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Been in that house, Sara. Someone lives there again now. I remember it before it was abandoned. The house was elegant, they were friends with my parents.
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Did you dare to enter?
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