The photo for this week’s prompt was taken at the Abbey House Museum, Kirkstall, Leeds. I spent a goodly amount of time in that museum as a child. Housed in the gatehouse of the ruined Abbey, it holds everything from toys to Victorian penny arcade machines and the reconstructed streets, filled with shops and wonders. I always wanted to brave the guardian knight and climb the spiral staircase that is kept roped off with a crimson cord… but that is one place I was never lucky enough to explore. I was, however, able to explore far more of the Abbey than I had ever done as a child when the city opened the newly safeguared ruins to the public…and that was an amazing experience.
Thank you to everyone who took part this week! There were so many entries that I could not reblog all of them, though all are included in the round-up below. Please click on the links below to visit all the posts and leave a comment for the author! A new prompt will be published later today.
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Waiting
Imagination
The greatest gift of childhood
Creates its stories
Woven from shadows
Dreams and nightmares are concealed
In memory’s mists
Fears and fantasy
Time robs them of urgency
But not excitement
Waiting within us
The inner child still believes
Dragons can be slain
Many thanks to this weeks contributors:
M. Zane McClellan at The Poetry Channel
Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway
Balroop Singh at Emotional Shadows
Noelle Granger from Saylingaway
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Reblogged this on ladyleemanila and commented:
waiting tales 🙂
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Thank you, Lady Lee 🙂
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Sooooooo many entries! Wonderful!
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I know …fabulous 🙂
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Great Ghost stories!!
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🙂
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I like your thought of ‘waiting within’…many times we get solace from this emotion. Childhood memories and desires make wonderful stories! I have been to some of the oldest forts and havelis with the same kind of staircases speaking of buried secrets, which a writer can unearth!
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There is a child within all of us waiting still to be woken to wonder… and sometimes it takes so little to remember who we truly are 🙂
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True! We try to keep that child alive through creativity also.
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It is one of the best ways, I find 🙂
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Yep!! 🙂
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These photo prompts are so great. It is so interesting to see all the different styles of writing, approaches and thoughts.
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It always amazes me the number of differernt ways that the same photograph can be interpreted.
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