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Caught between the poles
Necessity and desire
A war of the heart
Perception and beauty veiled
Lost to warring emotions

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Peaceful acceptance
Opens possibility
Discarding blinkers
Peripheral vision gains
Golden horizons open

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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken a couple of years ago in Buckinghamshire, when Stuart and I were off adventuring, exploring the ancient churches, chalk carvings and hillforts in the area. We had been lucky that day, finally and quite fortuitously gaining access to the church of St Michael and All Angels , passing through a truly amazing doorway. Those adventures brought the county to life for me in a way that a decade or two living there had been unable to do. I saw the landscape through new eyes and finally began to appreciate the beauty of the south instead of wasting both time and opportunity merely pining for the north.

Thank you so much to everyone who took part this week. Unfortunately, thanks to WordPress ‘losing’ the reblog button while I was away, I could not reblog as many posts as I would have liked. However, all the posts are listed below, please click on the links below to read them and leave a comment for the author!

A new prompt will be published later today. I will reblog as many contributions as possible as they come in and all of them will be featured in the round-up on Thursday.

Pingbacks have been uncertain this week… if you have written a post for this challenge and it does not appear in the round-up, please leave a link to your post in the comments and I will add it to the list.

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Many thanks to this weeks contributors:

Wallie’s Wentletrap

Geoff Le Pard at Tangental

Suzanne at Calm and Chaos

Hayley R. Hardman at The Story Files

Kerfe at methodtwomadness

Jane Dougherty Writes

Martha at Freidenkerin’s Weblog

Leena at Soul Connection

Anurag Bakhshi at Jagah Dil Mein Honi Chahiye

Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway

Fandango at This, That and the Other

Willow at willowdot21

Does writing excuse watching?

James at Powered by Robots

Kim Blades

Reinventions by Reena

Kim Russell from Writing in North Norfolk

Trent P. McDonald

Sarah at fmme writes poems

The Urban Spaceman

Lady Lee Manila

Alethea Kehas at Not Tomatoes

Penny Wilson Writes

Michael at Morpeth Road

Iain Kelly

Pamela Morse at mermaidcamp

Raymond Roy

pensitivity101

Gregg Savage

Sisyphus at Of Glass and Paper