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Ancient stone watches
The passing of centuries
Carve a weathered face
The heartbeat of stone is slow
Man no more than passing through
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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire. The stone is the Cork Stone, a natural erratic that stands within a landscape once peopled by our ancestors. Not far away is the Nine Ladies stone circle, three other ring sites that may have been ring cairns or stone circles, and the mystrious Doll Tor hides in a wood close by. All around are traces of the living and the dead of the ancient settlement that once called this stretch of moorland home.
For all it is a natural stone…not placed there by human hands… it would undoubtedly have held significance for a people to whom stone was their means of expression, their tool and technology and an embodiment of the spirit of earth.
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Thank you so much to everyone who took part this week. I reblogged as many as I could and all the posts are listed below, so please click on the links to read them and leave a comment for the author! Thank you too, to everyone who reblogged the prompt, round up and the individual resposes!
A new prompt will be published later today. I will reblog as many contributions as space and time allows, as they come in… and all of them will be featured in the round-up on Thursday.
Pingbacks do not always come through… if you have written a post for this challenge and it does not appear in the round-up, please leave a link to your post in the comments and I will add it to the list.
Come and join in!
Many thanks to this weeks contributors:
Dorinda Duclos at Night Owl Poetry
Hayley R. Hardman at The Story Files
Anurag Bakhshi at Jagahdilmein
Reena Saxena at Reinventions by Reena
Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Great entries again!
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As always 🙂
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Hi Sue I was wondering where you had disappeared to as all post from you were landing in my reader or email. Today I discovered WP had unfriended me from you!Well I am back now 💜😉😉😉😉💜
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I think that may be the case with a good few people lately, Willow xx
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I wonder why I do get annoyed when that happens, hopefully WP will stop interfering. 🙃😒
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It bugs me too… especially when they unfollow you from everyone!
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Yes and you don’t know until suddenly you think not seen anything from whoever for ages!
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Yep… very annoying.
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Great stories as ever 💜💜
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Aren’t they? ❤
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Yes indeed 💜
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Lovely poem, Sue, and what an unusual stone. Your mention of the circles in the area is particularly intriguing to me.
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We were up there recently again, and I will get around to sharing the circles on here…once I’ve done with the Cornish trip 🙂
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Wonderful history of the stone! So many great entries! 😊
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It is a really interesting stretch of moor, Dorinda. 🙂
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I would love to visit one day, but I don’t fly…maybe I should start swimming? 😉
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I’ll have a towel and a pot of tea waiting 😉
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That’s great! An incentive! 😀
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🙂
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The spirit of earth…that’s exactly it. (K)
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Yep.
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Some lovely responses, Sue.
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As always, Robbie 🙂
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