The photo for this week’s prompt was taken in Ye Olde Nags Head, a 17th century coaching inn in Castleton… and one of the innumerable Derbyshire pubs where we warm our toes on our travels.
More wonderful entries this week. Thank you to everyone who took part. 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 and I will reblog as many as I can through the week… but with as there are now so many great entries, that will not be all of them. All contributions will be featured in the round-up on Thursday.
Please note: As I am away this weekend, there may be a delay in responding with comments and reblogs!
The vagaries of WordPress mean that occasionally a pingback won’t get through. If you have written a piece for this week’s challenge and it does not appear below, please leave a link in the comments and I will add it to the list.
Come and join in!
Flame
Lost in the dreaming
Watching flaming horses dance
The past and future
Elemental visions live
On the edge of consciousness
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Apocalyptic
Possibilities waver
Consuming our choice
Precariously balanced
On the edge of extinction
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Hope is a phoenix
Rising from its own embers
In light and beauty
Shedding feathers of comfort
Around a welcoming hearth
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Many thanks to this weeks contributors:
E.R.Smith at Bronx Beyond Borders
Prajakta at An Armchair Perfectionist
Luccia Gray from Rereading Jane Eyre
Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway
D. Wallace Peach at Myths of the Mirror
Sarah Brentyn at Lemon Shark Reef
Balroop Singh at Emotional Shadows
Jan Malique at Strange Goings On in the Shed
Helen Jones from Journey to Ambeth
Lorraine at My Frilly Freudian Slip
Hugh Roberts at Hugh’s Views and News
Hayley R Hardman at The Story Files
So many beautiful entries this week! Look forward to the next prompt xx
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I know:) seem to beore Evey week 🙂
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It’s brilliant!
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🙂
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Your poem is superb, Sue. Love the reference to the phoenix – reminds me of The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit.
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Thanks Robbie, the shapes in the flames were suggestive.
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“Hope is a phoenix”–what a wonderful image.
A varied and interesting group of responses to this one. (K)
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Thanks, Kerfe.so many this week too!
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Sue, I also like the image of hope as a Phoenix. Safe travels.
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Thanks Bernadette 🙂
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Reblogged this on ladyleemanila and commented:
flame #writephoto 🙂
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Thanks again Lady Lee 🙂
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Wow, Sue. You’re getting great participation. And what a wonderful variety of stories. I think I caught most of them 🙂
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Great, isn’t it 🙂
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Reblogged this on Stuart France.
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Reblogged this on Viv Drewa – The Owl Lady.
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