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Veiled in morning mist
Echoes of an ancient past
Enchant the watchers
Drawn as one into the Dance
A dance of light unbroken
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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken in Cornwall at the Merry Maidens stone circle, known in Cornish as Dans Maen the Stone Dance. Legend says that a circle of maidens were turned to stone for dancing on the sabbath to the music of the Pipers… who were also petrified and now stand, a pair of monoliths some ten feet tall, a short distance away.
The legend is obviously a relatively modern one, as the maidens were punished for dancing on a day that is sacred in Christianity. But it may hold a clue to the rites once celebrated here when it was first built, between three and a half and four and a half thousand years ago.
The circle is part of a wider ceremonial landscape, with a barrow cemetery and at least one other stone circle, now destroyed, close by. There is also the remains of a passage grave close to the field entrance where the stones now dance.
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Thank you to everyone who took part, visited or reblogged the posts or left comments for their authors.
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!
Thank you to all Contributors!
Christine Bialczak at Stine Writing
Amanda J. Smith at In the Wright
Christine Bolton at Poetry for Healing
Daisybala at freshdaisiesdotme
Janette Bendle at What She Wrote Next
Nascent Ederren at The Ederren
Nima Mohan at The Tenth Zodiac
Aseem Rastogi at Transition of Thoughts
Annette Kalandros at Hearing The Mermaids Sing
Balroop Singh at Emotional Shadows
Honoré Dupuis at Of Glass and Paper
Anita from Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie
Kerfe Roig at K- Lines that Aim to Be
and also a post linked to a previous prompt
Anjali Sharma at Positive Side Of The Coin
Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway
Brian F. Kirkham at The Inkwell
Goff James at Art, Photography and Poetry
Dr. Crystal Grimes at Mystical Strings
Alethea Kehas at The Light Behind the Story
Trent P. McDonald at Trent’s World
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
I’m in awe of the effort you put into this, Sue! Good work!
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I love seeing how varied the imagination is with all the responses 🙂
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Wow there are really many wonderful writers who joined in..thanks Sue.
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We tend to get a wonderful bunch of responses every week 🙂
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Reblogged this on Art, Photography and Poetry.
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Thanks for sharing the round-up, Goff.
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My pleasure. Another glorious day here; a lot fresher after night’s noisy rain.
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No rain here yet… I live in hopes 😉
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I watered the garden after dinner last night. It then poured down all night!!
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Maybe I should water mine then…after I mow the lawn 😉
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Maybe you’ll be lucky. Stormy weather forecast!!
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Not here… seems we are in for anothr ten days of sunshine… unless they change their minds 😉
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Wow!
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Thanks Sue
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Always a pleasure, Di.
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🙂
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Reblogged this on Open Your Eyes Too! and commented:
Another awesome week of talented writers for Sue Vincen’ts #WritePhoto.
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“…A dance of light unbroken”
I think a poetic way of saying hope is eternal.
Than you for the his/herstory of the place.
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🙂
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Reblogged this on Campbells World.
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Thanks for sharing the round-up, Patty.
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