The photo for this week’s prompt was taken on the moors above Ilkley at dawn, during one of the Silent Eye weekend workshops. The September events always fall around my birthday and some of us had taken a very long way round to reach Ilkley. My companion had set out from Sheffield, just fifty miles from our eventual destination to come south to me… and we had turned the two hundred mile trip from here to Ilkley into five hundred miles, stopping along the way at places like Uffington, Marlborough and Avebury, although that meant going even farther south… That was a gift in itself.
It was a wonderful trip, revisiting ancient circles and carved stones across the moors. Then we followed the weekend workshop with a foray into North Yorkshire too, with a visit to Helmsley to see the wonderful old church there. It took me a couple of weeks to write about all the places we had seen, so calling the series ‘Rooted in the Land’ may have had a touch of irony about it.
At Marlborough that I was gifted with a staff carved with the head of a dragon. Two days later, as we watched the dawn from the Cow and Calf, the clouds danced delicately, twisting themselves into fantastic shapes. The prompt photo shows two of them… on the left, I saw a face in profile, hair streaming in the wind. On the right… an awfully familiar dragon diving and spiralling towards the moors…
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There were some wonderful poems and stories this week and 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 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!
Wisp
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Trails of memory
Ephemeral wisps of time
Captured by the heart
Tomorrow’s journey nurtured
Rooted in a land of love
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Many thanks to this weeks contributors:
Emily Weatherburn at A writer’s beginning
Sisyphus at Of Glass and Paper
Kim from Writing in North Norfolk
Joelle LeGendre at Two on a Rant
Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway
Hayley R. Hardman at The Story Files
Balroop Singh at Emotional Shadows
Ashwini at Kaleidoscope of my life
This was a fantastic prompt and I’m amazed at the range and diversity of the entries it prompted!
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I know… it seems everyone saw something different 🙂
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Love it!!!!
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🙂
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I like your juxtaposition of clouds and roots. I keep being surprised by the places these photos take everybody…(K)
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That’s one of the delights of these challenges… a glimpse into so many people’s imaginations…all unique.
(P.S.I had to rescue three of your comments from the spam folder…)
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That happens to me all the time. I try to check every few days, but it’s hard to keep up. The quirks of WordPress.
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WordPress does seem to have a mind of its own…
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Yes, I’ve heard from others my comments are going into spam right now. I better check my own spam folder…
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Strange creatures lurk in there, beware 😉
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Very strange…
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😉
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Reblogged this on ladyleemanila and commented:
wisp round-up 🙂
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Reblogged this on The Militant Negro™.
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I loved all the interesting takes on this prompt, Sue. Yours too was very unique.
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As always, so wonderful takes on the prompt 🙂 Thanks, Robbie.
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