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Forward or backward
Linear thought makes a choice
Seek another way
Accept the path less travelled
Or forge a path yet untrod
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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken on the Ridgeway, halfway between the White Horse at Uffington and the ancient tomb known as Waylands Smithy. It is the place where our adventures began, leading to the publication of The Initiate and all the books that followed… and the path we found there is one we still follow.
The Ridgeway is a prehistoric track, at lest five thousand years old, and still in use today. It used to run from the coast in Dorset, to the Wash in Norfolk, right across the country. Today there are still almost ninety miles of trackway left to explore, and following its route, many sites of ancient sanctity, from barrows to earthworks, circles to early churches…and the hill figures, like the White Horse.
I admit that I altered the photograph, erasing the words on the sign to give our storytellers a little more leeway… and to open the symbolism of the unmarked waymarker.
My thanks, as always, to all those who took part…over fifty of you this week!
I wish I could reblog all 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.
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… 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 Reminder and an invitation
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! ‘Regulars’ does not mean you have to take part every week… Click here for details
Come and join in!
Please leave your comments for the contributors on their blogs.
Hayley R. Hardman at The Story Files
Jen Goldie at Starlight and Moon Beams
Hélène Vaillant at Willow Poetry
Daisybala at freshdaisiesdotme
Ashwini Nawathe at Kaleidoscope of my Life
Ennle Madresan at Abandoned Amenities
Michele Jones at Out of the Shadows
Anita from Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie
Christine Bolton at Poetry for Healing
Janette Bendle at What She Wrote
Melanie B Cee from Sparks from a Combustible Mind
Jordis Fasheh from Jordy’s Streamings
Roberta Eaton at Roberta Writes
Bladud Fleas at The Moon is Rising
Dorinda Duclos at Night Owl Poetry
Kerfe Roig at methodtwomadness
M. Brazfield at Words Less Spoken
Deborah at A Wise Woman’s Journey
Fandango at This, That and the Other
Sisyphus at Of Glass and Paper
Teresa Smeigh at Tessa can do it
Trent P. McDonald at Trent’s World
Anjali Sharma at Positive Side Of The Coin
Rupali S Banerjee at Reflections of Life
Great amount of entries again Sue!
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I know… it’s fabulous! 🙂
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Over Fifty entries how amazing is that . Mind you the the symbolism of the signpost is one we all can relate to. Your poem sums it up perfectly 💜
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Thanks, Willow. I am gobsmacked every week 🙂
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It just gets bigger and better 💜
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❤
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Linear thought does box us in. (K)
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It does.
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Thanks Sue. Great prompts get great turn outs! 🙂🌼
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This one seems to have gone down well 🙂
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Thank you for the information on the sign. What a history it is.
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The Ridgeway is an amazing survival.
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