Pic and a Word Challenge
Each week Patrick Jennings provides a photograph of his along with a single word. The challenge? Use the pic and/or word as points of inspiration to create something — a photograph, a painting, prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, longread or just a few words.
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The Purest Gold
The clouds always part
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See the Sea
When will I see the sea for what it is and what it will always be?
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transition
wisps of potential precipitation occlude the sun’s rays, goosebumping my flesh which was recently warm.
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Further from Progress?
We find ourselves becalmed.
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Between the Cadences
There, we have choices that make all the difference Between the cadences.
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Obscured
I see you… Rising above the cloudswhich obscurewhere your building began. You continue to riseIn spite of the clouds, And clouds don’t last forever. One day… You will standstrongand proud, And I will see you fully,toptobottom, Illuminatedby a never-ending sun. The Pic and a Word Challenge is (usually) a weekly creativity prompt offered Mondays. Photo Credit:Patrick Jennings…
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Trapped in Amber
Trapped in Amber, Some things remain Intact For Millenia.
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Divine
I used to think Divinity hid behind clouds,
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Brightening
I swear I’ve been here before
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On Advent – I: Love Has Freed Us All
Life finds a way / Love finds a way / Amor nos omnes liberavit
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A peaceful path perchance yet stranger
The road from here is rocky danger / And when we reach the end – who knows? / A peaceful path perchance yet stranger
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Beginnings
Soon it will be light
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beyond the churn
The chance to look backward is all bittersweet
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A Wake in the Night
Even in darkness / The traveled path / Is marked.
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Undulation
a cosmic interplay of divine wind peacefully undulates over creation and seeks to ignite the fire from within. As it moves,it stirs the embersof the souland pushes the sailseverforward,filled with flamesof passion. The Pic and a Word Challenge is (usually) a weekly creativity prompt offered Mondays. Photo Credit:Patrick JenningsThe Inner Grassland SeaMerrittBritish Columbia, Canada On location, 2021
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lighten up and splash a little
Sometimes we dance on the sand and wayward waves tickle our toes with cooling licks.
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Fish-Eye Blind
On and on, up the food chain…
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in a previous light
in the layers of life / it’s darkest in the middle / right where the eye wants to fall.
defying atrophy 