The photo for this week’s prompt was taken on the island of Portland, just off the Dorset coast. The obelisk stands on Portland Bill, a narrow promontory at the southern end of the island. The Trinity House Obelisk was erected in 1844 to warn ships of the dangerous shelf of rocks hidden by the waters. Made of the local Portland Stone, much prized and used for the building of Buckingham Palace, St Paul’s Cathedral and other notable edifices, the obleisk stands around 30 feet tall. A few years ago, we went exploring in Dorset and found ‘wonderful things’.
More wonderful entries this week. I’d like to welcome the new contributors and thank 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 as they come in… but given the volume of entries we are getting now, that will not be all of them. All contributions will be featured in the round-up on Thursday.
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!
Obelisk
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Gold paints the waters
Gilding a path to the sun
Light against darkness
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Below the surface
Forgotten and unnoticed
Black rocks are waiting
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A sentinel stands
Linking the earth to heaven
Warning of peril
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Vessels of the sea
Or errant souls wandering
Take heed or ignore
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All signs and symbols
In stone or understanding
Silent messengers
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The soul sails through life
Dark waters and those of gold
May all be teachers
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Many thanks to this weeks contributors:
Joelle LeGendre at Two on a Rant
Luccia Gray from Rereading Jane Eyre
Sisyphus at Of Glass and Paper
Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway
Sarah Brentyn at Lemon Shark Reef
Helen Jones from Journey to Ambeth
D. Wallace Peach at Myths of the Mirror
Hayley R. Hardman at The Story Files
and a second part from Emma.
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
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obelisk round-up 🙂
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Thanks, Lady Lee 🙂
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Thanks Sue – I absolutely love your haiku for this picture 🙂
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Thank you, Emma 🙂
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Love your poem it truly touched me💜 also lots of great entries this week. 💜
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Thanks, Willow…the variety continues to astonish me 🙂
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💜💝
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Great Takes AGAIN!!!
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Wonderful, aren’t they? 🙂
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Brilliant!!!
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😀
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Beautiful linked haiku, Sue. And what a great turnout. Lots to read. 🙂
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And once again, some great stories. Thanks, Diana.
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I know Portland Bill being a Dorset lass born and bred. Last time we went, I got sunstroke and Hubby literally threw me in the shower at home to bring my temperature down. It was the first, and only, time I’d ever used sunscreen!
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That sounds awful… sunstroke is unpleasant.
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I was really poorly, and haven’t used sunscreen since. I’ve never been one to tan anyway, though living on the boat my skin had a healthy glow!
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It can be really bad. Wonder if there was an allergy too? I’m certainly glowing tonight…but I’m not sure its healthy…
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Dark waters are indeed teachers..this is beautiful, Sue.
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Thank you, Pamela.
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I didn’t realise that this was Portland, Sue and i have been there many times (both my parents were born in Weymouth) and we nearly always went to Portland to clamber over the rocks, and sometimes go for a swim at Chesil beach too.
I love the poem you wrote to go with the image, too.:-)
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Thanks, Judy. It is a beautiful place to watch the sun set on the sea. This is right out on the Bill.
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Your poem is lovely, Sue.
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Thanks, Robbie.
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