31_days | May Prompts

Hi, everyone! I'm in charge of May's prompts. This was harder than I expected--I had so many I wanted to use and it was almost impossible to limit myself to 31. I've also included some notes below on them.

May

1. Lingering affection, you and I are being kept alive by it.

2. It can be a mere nothing that gives us a glimpse of light.

3. Anaklusmos...the current that takes one by surprise. And before you know it, you have been swept out to sea.

4. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

5. frog in a well, knowing nothing of the sea

6. remember the colour of the vanishing flame

7. Perhaps we're like the stars, shining alone in the empty void of space. Having faith that one day, our light might reach someone

8. I am incomplete and you're only half alive

9. The memory of you emerges from the night around me

10. Always the same routine. Always the same room. But, from the single high window in that room, I could see the stars slowly change their positions every night.

11. If tomorrow never happens

12. I echo in your heart

13. She weaves in my dreams

14. My eyes open / but that dream has not broken

15. Upon my life, this despair is very short

16. Left on my breath by your lips / that dream is still there

17. I'm the breeze / I don't linger anywhere

18. Come, we'll go where there is no road / where no one lives, no one is settled

19. I wish someone would love me, even if it is a lie

20. Like the moon descends into the lake sometimes

21. I am listening to your resemblances in my body

22. Your absence digs into me / the evenings that set without you

23. I'm living here in pieces / somewhere you're living in pieces, too

24. Yesterday you waited for me / today I wait for you

25. I asked you for one happiness / you did not even give me your sorrows

26. Tell me now, when will this wild wind fall still

27. The sun has dimmed, the moon has begun to burn

28. My heart burns, my soul burns / from the eyes, smoke rises

29. Still my lips and his lips get woven together

30. I am a lover of all her forms / of she who flirts with light and shadow

31. Sometimes on the branches, sometimes on the leaves / I search for her trail in the breeze

Notes:

So a few of these were inspired by manga/anime, but the largest chunk of these come from some Bollywood songs. I included the song titles in the notes, but if you want the specific lines, please let me know. Of course, because a lot of these are from romantic bollywood songs, most of the prompts lend themselves to that, but I tried to put enough non-romantic/more vague lines to make up for that. (and man, there were so many lines I wanted to use that ended up, "this sounds great in Hindi, but not so much in English)

1. Kekkai Sensen, ep 11 (a fun anime series. :) )

2., 10. Twin Spica by Kou Yaginuma (I highly reccommend this manga series)

3. The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

4. Oscar Wilde

5. Uchouten Kazoku

7. Houkago no Pleiades

8., 23. aye ajnabi

9. Pablo Neruda

11. Kal ho Naa Ho

12. Main yahaan hoon

13. khudaya khair

14., 15.,16. raat ka nasha

17., 18. tu fiza hai

19. phir milenge chalte chalte

20. kaise mujhe

21. tu musukura

22. o meri jaan

24., 25. meri kismat mein tu nahi

26. satrangi re

27. suraj hua maddham

28., 29. jiya jale

30., 31. chaiyya chaiyya