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The land remembers
Abandoned bones bleached by time
Seeing the future
Greed and need ignore the signs
The earth weeps for her children
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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken at Barbrook III stone circle, one of the most difficult circles we have managed to locate. We had walked miles in search of it, and would have missed it yet again, had the bleached bones of a skull not marked its centre.
Barbrook is a very special site, and it is not limited to this discrete circle, but is spread across a wide swathe of moorland, just above the city of Sheffield. The site consists of a necropolis of over fifty cairns, one of which has been partially reconstructed, two true stone circles… Barbrook I and Barbrook III, where the prompt photo was taken, and the enigmatic Barbrook II, which seems to contain all the elements of cairn and burial place, the small standing stones of a circle and the form of a roundhouse. There are earthworks, alignments both geographical and stellar, and an ancient settlement across the stream that separates the lands of the living from the realm of the ancestors.
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Thank you so much to everyone who took part this week! Once again, there were too many reblog all of the posts, but they are all 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!
Pingbacks do not always come through… and I can miss things too, so 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.
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.
As there are usually too many contributions to reblog all of them every week, and so that we can get to know their writers, I would like to invite all writephoto regulars to come and introduce themselves on the blog as my guest!
Come and join in!
Many thanks to this weeks contributors:
Lilly at In the Silence of the Day
Kelley Farrell at authoranonblog
Anurag Bakhshi at Jagahdilmein
Jan Malique at Strange Goings on in the Shed
Eric Pone at Backyard Knowledge
Roberta Eaton at Roberta Writes
Anita from Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie
Kim M. Russell at Writing in North Norfolk
Hélène Vaillant at Willow Poetry
Dorinda Duclos at Night Owl Poetry
Christine Bolton at Poetry for Healing
Bladud Fleas at The Moon is Rising
Debbie Roth at Forgiving Connects
Marilyn Armstrong at Serendipity
Fandango at This, That and the Other
Hayley R. Hardman at The Story Files
Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway
Sisyphus at Of Glass and Paper
Trent P. McDonald at Trent’s World
James Pyles at Powered by Robots
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Sadly Sue, I think you missed this one https://wordpress.com/post/bobfairfield.org/4457
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Sorry, Bob, I don’t seem to have had a link through for this. I’ll add it to the round up.
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Ah, I see the problem, Bobby… the link leads to the admin rather than the post. 🙂 Found it though.
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Wonderful! 😍
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🙂
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Another bountyful crop of entries Sue! I love your Tanka especially the penultimate and ultimate lines “Greed and need ignore the signs
The earth weeps for her children” truer words never written 💜💝
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A sad state of affairs…
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So when the skull marked the spot in my story, I wasn’t too far off of the mark…. Sounds like an interesting spot.
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No, you were very close again, Trent…
It is a fascinating bit of moorland, with a great deal going on there within a wider network of important sites.
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Sometimes I think your photos plant their own synapses into my subconscious. It’s very eerie how my work this week reflected the actual space. I’ll be pondering that for awhile…(K)
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Yes, I was struck by the aptness of your work for that particular location…
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Sue, I can NEVER find the new one of these. For some reason, they don’t seem to show up in my email or reader. Can you send me a link? It gets very frustrating. I only found last weeks by backtracking on other people’s contributions and I figure there’s got to be an easier way!
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It is always the next post from the previous round-up, published two hours later. Odd that it doesn’t show up! This week’s is here: https://scvincent.com/2018/10/18/thursday-photo-prompt-glimmer-writephoto/
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I never get that post. Literally NEVER. I have to find someone else’s post and hope they have a link I can use to find the original. Not everyone’s links are equally linkable!
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How strange. I’ll have a look into that.
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There are a couple of others posts which either don’t show up at all or show up very late, a day or two late sometimes. But not ALL their posts — only ones that seem to be going out to a lot of people at the same time. So basically, prompts. It may be gmail … but it also could be Word Press. A lot of people are having a lot more serious problems than this and WordPress is promising a MAJOR revamp of its format … and you just know that’s going to mean T-R-O-U-B-L-E. They have never had a major software release which didn’t make a giant mess for all of us.
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I know, and I am not looking forward to the new editor at all…
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I’m scared we won’t be able to get back to the old editor this time. It sounds like a major change.
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I have been getting that impression too… and won’t be happy if I can’t. But we are adaptable creatures…
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So far, so good.
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So far…
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Thank you for the prompt. Just realized my pingback didn’t work. Here is my offering for bones :https://inthesilenceoftheday.wordpress.com/2018/10/11/imagination
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Thanks, I’ll add it to the round up 🙂
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Thank you😁
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🙂
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