Tag Archives: symbolism

Photo prompt round up – The tunnel #writephoto

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Sue Vincent

“The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.” … Continue reading →

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Strength

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Petals that tremble in the slightest breeze did not even stir. Liveried in black and gold, summer’s messenger walked lightly upon the rose. Which, I wondered, was the strongest? When we walk lightly upon the earth, marvelling at her wonders, … Continue reading →

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Thursday photo prompt – The tunnel – #writephoto

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Use the image below to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… light or dark, whatever you choose, by noon (GMT)  Wednesday 28th June and link back to this post with a pingback. Please make sure that … Continue reading →

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Photo prompt round up – Twilight #writephoto

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Sue Vincent

The photo for this week’s prompt was taken just before dawn on my way home from a trip to the north. The mist lay as a heavy pall over the landscape as the first flush of reflected pink touched the … Continue reading →

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Thursday photo prompt – Twilight – #writephoto

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Use the image below to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… light or dark, whatever you choose, by noon (GMT)  Wednesday 21st June and link back to this post with a pingback. Please make sure that … Continue reading →

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Photo prompt round up – Wings #writephoto

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Sue Vincent

The photo for this week’s prompt was taken from my back doorstep. The multitude of bids came over, wheeling and calling… a black and vociferous crowd that stayed overhead for a good ten minutes. There were far too many to … Continue reading →

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Thursday photo prompt – Wings #writephoto

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Use the image below to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… light or dark, whatever you choose, by noon (GMT)  Wednesday 14th June and link back to this post with a pingback. Please make sure that … Continue reading →

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Photo prompt round up – Knock #writephoto

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Sue Vincent

The photo for this week’s prompt was taken in Cerne Abbas, Dorset, at a time when I did not document our travels as carefully as I do now, at least outside the pages of our books. The adventures of Dorset … Continue reading →

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Divination by the book

Posted on June 4, 2017 by Sue Vincent

There is an ancient art of divination knows as bibliomancy…divination by books. It has been around a long time…the I Ching, the Chinese Book of Changes, has been in use for at least three thousand years, and who knows how … Continue reading →

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Tell-Tale Signs III… Stuart France

Posted on June 4, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* ‘Brown, Black, Grey and Red, All men and women end up dead.’ It seems to me that this rather macabre Fionn tale, adapted from a collection made by Jeremiah Curtin and first published under the title, ‘Myths and Folk-Lore … Continue reading →

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