It’s Thursday, so I normally post a door as part of Norm 2.0’s Thursday Doors Challenge (and I may yet still, it’s Thursday for a little while longer yet). But Sue Vincent over at The Daily Echo posted a writing prompt based on this picture she took of a mysterious door in a stone wall, and it inspired me to do something a little different.
Sue asked that we use a hundred words or less to describe what we think lies beyond the door. I started writing a poem, for some reason – it arrived quite quickly and so, here it is:
Beyond the door the pathway waits,
Through trees and tiny fairy gates,
Lined with velvet petals sweet
Mosses soft beneath your feet
Branches whisper as you pass
Trailing fingers through long grass
Singing sigh of leaves that fall
As you approach the elven hall
Twigs like fingers pull your hair
Vines appearing from thin air
To wrap you in a green embrace
Leaves to cover up your face
Music lulls you deeper still
Pulled into the fairy hill
There to spend your final hours
Bound amongst the scattered flowers
So take the pathway if you dare
You know not what you’ll find in there…
Hmmm. Well, it started off very sweetly but got a bit darker towards the end. Plus it is slightly over 100 words – I hope you don’t mind, Sue!
If you’re feeling inspired, head over to Sue’s blog and add your own response to her photo – the challenge is open until March 1st.
Helen Glynn Jones 
Thank you so much for joining in, Helen… I knew there was magic in that door 🙂
Thank you Sue, it felt magical as soon as I saw the photo – what a great shot 🙂
I drive past it often and wish I could investigate.. but then, not knowing means there are all these possibilities…
I know! I’m looking forward to reading some others 🙂
I hope a good few will join in 🙂
Gorgeous, Helen! I’d go through on that basis…
Thanks, Ali – it is rather tempting, even when you know it won’t end so well… 🙂
You know what? I suspect it would be worth it. 😊
It would be beautiful, that’s for sure 🙂
Oh, I love it, especially for that dark twist. It reminds me of all those fairy stories in which the Fae are far more dangerous than Disney lets on.
Thanks Allie 🙂 Yes, I’ve always thought the Fae far more dangerous than they are usually portrayed. Though I didn’t quite plan the ending on this, it just came out that way 😀
Wow, beautiful poem, Helen. It gave me chills. That image of snaring vines keeps showing up in various ways for me- and now it’s here again. I love your imagery, I saw it all in my mind’s eye very clearly.
Thank Eilis, that’s a lovely compliment, especially from such a talented poet as yourself.
And the snaring vines keep showing up? Someone’s trying to tell you something…
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Wow! That is beautiful!
Thank you 🙂
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What a fantastic post! You captured the magical world and fairy path well, so intriguing, I like that it got a bit darker at the end too it worked well with that little twist. KL ❤
Thank you! I’m really pleased you enjoyed it, especially the ending bit – that was a surprise for me as well, as I wasn’t sure where the poem was going when I started it 🙂
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