The photo for this week’s prompt was taken in the Derbyshire village of Foolow, close to where the Silent Eye hold our annual weekend workshop every April.
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. Pingbacks do not always get through.
With a phenomenal number of superb contributions this week, I would like to 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, as always, I will reblog as many as I can through the week as they come in and all contributions will be featured in the round-up on Thursday.
Come and join in!
Messenger
Funereal flight
Bad news arrives on dark wings
Dreaded harbinger
Cursed as carrion’s cleaner
Patrolling the battlefield
Bird of Apollo
Divinity’s messenger
Guiding the Crossing
Mediating life and death
Shimmering in the sunlight
Speaker of wisdom
Knowing beyond intellect
Thought and memory
Hooded wings hold protection
And thou art black but comely
Perspectives differ
Each culture knows your presence
According respect
Do you laugh at our stories
Or shape-shift to redeem them
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Many thanks to this weeks contributors:
Sisyphus at Of Glass and Paper
Kim from Writing in North Norfolk
Sandi from Flip Flops Every day
Hayley R. Hardman at The Story Files
Sarah Brentyn at Lemon Shark Reef
Joelle LeGendre at Two on a Rant
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
managed to maintain my 100% record of non-inclusion in the round-up, still enjoy participating though
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Bobby, I’m not getting either pingbacks or links in the comments to your posts. If you leave me a link, I’ll add you to the round up.
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I’ll get onto it whilst learning about the pingback idea
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Found a couple of your posts and added them in. To create a pingback, so In know you have posted to the challenge, Bob, Hugh has an excellent article here: https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2016/01/23/how-to-become-a-successful-blogger-part-2-how-to-create-a-pingback/
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Thanks, I’ll have another go.
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🙂
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What an incredible poem. I thought this was an absolute classic. Loved it.
xx Rowena
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Thanks, Rowena xx
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Crows do always manage to get our attention. And I’ve definitely heard them laugh. (K)
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They are such intelligent creatures.
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Wonderful mythic feel to your poem, Sue. And I have some reading to do! Great participation as always. 😀
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Thanks, Diana… some great contributions this week as always. 🙂
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I love the inclusion of Apollo …and shape shifting. Meaningful poem.
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Thanks, Pamela.
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Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Wonderful entries as always Sue!
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They are… and new writers too 🙂
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Always great to discover new writers!!!
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It is 🙂
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I like your poem Sue, the crow, raven, jacdor all well known messengers.This week’s entries has all been fabulous💜
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We’ve had some splendid entries 🙂
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