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Category: 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.

The Purest Gold

The clouds always part

#pixtowords, #tanka, tanka

See the Sea

When will I see the sea
for what it is
and what it will always be?

cycles, lunar cycles, predictability, tides

transition

wisps of potential
precipitation
occlude
the sun’s rays,
goosebumping
my flesh
which was recently warm.

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords

Further from Progress?

We find ourselves
becalmed.

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords

It Was Very Good

We’ve nearly done it.

Between the Cadences

There,
we have choices
that make all the difference

Between the cadences.

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords

Obscured

I see you… Rising above the cloudswhich obscurewhere your building began. You continue to riseIn spite of the clouds, And … More

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords

Trapped in Amber

Trapped in
Amber,
Some things remain
Intact
For
Millenia.

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords

Divine

I used to think
Divinity hid
behind clouds,

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords

Brightening

I swear I’ve been here
before

On Advent – I: Love Has Freed Us All

Life finds a way / Love finds a way / Amor nos omnes liberavit

#pixtowords, advent, deconstruct, universalism

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

control, difficult, easy, fate, villanelle

Beginnings

Soon it will be light

#haiku, haiku

beyond the churn

The chance to look backward is all bittersweet

Irony Unlimited

Iron Sharpens Iron?

irony

A Wake in the Night

Even in darkness / The traveled path / Is marked.

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords

Undulation

a cosmic interplay of divine wind peacefully undulates over creation and seeks to ignite the fire from within. As it … More

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords

lighten up and splash a little

Sometimes we dance on the sand and wayward waves tickle our toes with cooling licks.

beach, cliff, sand, waves

Fish-Eye Blind

On and on, up the food chain…

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords

in a previous light

in the layers of life / it’s darkest in the middle / right where the eye wants to fall.

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, Patience, perspective

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