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In the darkest hour

Open hearts reach up in hope

Light fills the chalice

Shapes itself to the vessel

Giving itself to the need

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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken one wintery evening in Derbyshire, looking over the moors towards the stone circles and cairns of Barbrook. As the bare branches seemed to reach for the sky, the light streamed down to meet them.

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My apologies for the erratic nature of reblogs this week and the delayed and sparse comments; I am still catching up after from the weekend workshop in Derbyshire. Thank you so much to everyone who took part this week and to everyone who reblogged the prompt, round up and the individual responses! A new prompt will be published later today. As always, 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 next Thursday.

All the posts are listed below, so please click on the links below to read them and leave a comment for the author!

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.

An invitation to writephoto writers…

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 writers to come and introduce themselves on the blog as my guest! Click here for details.

Come and join in!

Many thanks to this week’s contributors:

Kerfe Roig shared a response to an old prompt

M. Brazfield at Words Less Spoken

Chris Hewitt at I.Mused

Phillip Knight Scott at Reverie in Reverse

Jen Goldie

Rebecca Cutler at Beckie’s Mental Mess

Sadje at Keep it Alive

Teresa Smeigh at Tessa can do it

Kerfe Roig at K- Lines that Aim to Be

Fandango at This, That and the Other

Anita from Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie

Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway

Di at pensitivity101

Joe M at Does Writing Excuse Watching?

Deborah at A Wise Woman’s Journey

Na’ama Yehuda

Jane Dougherty Writes

Trent P. McDonald at Trent’s World

Reena Saxena

Christine Bolton at Poetry for Healing

Paula Light at Light Motifs II

Sisyphus at Of Glass and Paper

Carol Anne at Therapy Bits

Anjali Sharma at Positive Side Of The Coin

Sitharaam Jayakumar at Jai’s Jottings

Hayley R. Hardman at The Story Files

Geoff Le Pard at TanGental

Neha at Forgotten Meadows

Diana Wallace Peach at Myths of the Mirror

Daisybala at freshdaisiesdotme

Eluminora Creations

Antonia Sara Zenkevitch