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Photo prompt round-up – Magic – #writephoto

Posted on December 7, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Magic * Pale snow shrouds the world Moments of perfect silence Counted by heartbeats * In childlike wonder Magical reality Dreamed into being * Fragile as snowflakes The veils between worlds waver Enchanting the land * The photo for this … Continue reading →

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Stones of the Night II… Stuart France

Posted on December 7, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* …As the ferns thin you spy a wooden stile up ahead and descend the grassy-knoll rather too quickly for the conditions underfoot, trotting to the stile side, precariously, and resting awhile to catch your breath. A road runs to … Continue reading →

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Stones of the Night… Stuart France

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* You are a passenger… You stay under glass… You are driven through the city’s ripped back-sides. You leave the city’s ripped back-sides on a road which snakes through low, rough, foothills. Far on the horizon a solitary fin-shaped peak … Continue reading →

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Striding out… Stuart France

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* If all goes well You’ll be setting out… * * For a landscape of old About which legends are told… * * Where hermits habitually stay And giant figures still play. * Source: Stuart France

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Baecca’s Well… Stuart France

Posted on December 4, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* From Baecca’s Well Via All Saint’s Spire * * To a rocky height That holds initiatory fire… * Source: Stuart France

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Adoration of the One? II… Stuart France

Posted on December 2, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “Another curiosity, found in the Chain of Being, held that each class possessed a ‘primate’.” * * “The eagle among birds, the lion among beasts, the king or emperor among men.” * * “Other primacies were the sun among … Continue reading →

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Adoration of the One?… Stuart France

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “It is a curious attribute of the Chain of Being, that it allowed every class to excel, ‘after its own heart’.” * * “Stones may be considered ‘lowly’ but they ‘trump’ the class above them, plants, in both strength … Continue reading →

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Thursday photo prompt – Magic – #writephoto

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Every Thursday at noon GMT, I publish one of my photos as a writing prompt. This week, I have chosen a magical winter scene. If you know where the photo was taken, please keep it to yourself until the challenge … Continue reading →

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Photo prompt round-up – Bleak – #writephoto

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Bleak * Ghosts of war and peace To sit with both and wonder Why there is a choice Waves wash the shore regardless Eternity in motion * Defence and offence Wreaking grief and destruction A horror story Memory denies itself … Continue reading →

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Circle of Heaven… Stuart France

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* To find a Black-Bird’s Stone Laid-by the Snake of Steel City, Before the Lowly-Ladies House, Beyond a Blood-Baked Bridge. O’er stile and up, a rise Which leads out-the-wood High, upon a ridge… Continue reading at Stuart France

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