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Even stone is moved
Shaped by a fluid caress
Fulfilling purpose
Stasis balanced by motion
Perfect partners in the dance
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Distant horizons
Siren call to greater life
Being in stillness
Deep within the shadowed darkness
Tides of hope and courage rise
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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken on the little isle of Portland off the south coast of England. I was there several years ago as part of a trip to Dorset, in the days before we posted much about our journeys on the blog, though this picture was taken on an earlier trip, when my eldest son was still living in Weymouth in an appartment that looked out onto the sea. Life was very different for him then, before the attack that left him for dead in an alley. But even such trauma cannot touch the core of stillness where inner strength resides.
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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.
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Come and join in!
Many thanks to this week’s contributors:
M. Brazfield at Words Less Spoken
Roberta Eaton at Roberta Writes
with a stand-alone part two of a story… part one is here.
and a second piece from Jen
Kerfe Roig at K- Lines that Aim to Be
Rebecca Cutler at Beckie’s Mental Mess
Deborah at A Wise Woman’s Journey
Teresa Smeigh at Tessa can do it
Christine Bolton at Poetry for Healing
Anita from Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie
Bobby Fairfield at When the pen takes control
Phillip Knight Scott at Reverie in Reverse
Jan Malique at Strange Goings on in the Shed
Joe M at Does Writing Excuse Watching?
Leanne Lieu at Read and Write Here
Honoré Dupuis at Of Glass and Paper
Anjali Sharma at Positive Side Of The Coin
Alethea Kehas at The Light Behind the Story
Hayley R. Hardman at The Story Files with a late entry for last week’s prompt.
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Sue, your poem is amazing. You mentioned your older son. Everything happens for s reason doesn’t it? Even the most horrendous occurances are not without reason. They say God or fate never hands us more than we can cope with 💜
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Even the worst things can hold light ) x
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Thanks Sue
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