Sue Vincent’s weekly #writephoto challenge is one of my favourite writing prompts. Her photos are always evocative and inspire a wide range of responses, as though she’s captured a little piece of storytelling magic in each image. Perhaps she has…
Here is my response to this week’s photo:
Swansong
They call it a swansong
Our last brave moments
Like a song sung
on a dying breath, beautiful
Haunting notes across the water
A requiem
To me it is sadness
A lament for the end
A wish for things to stay
as they always were, golden
Sunlit glimmers on the water
Don’t leave me
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That is heartrending, Helen, Beautiful. x
Thanks so much, Sue. Not sure where it came from. Your photos really do have magic in them 🙂
I try and find something in the files that have a story or two seething away in there 🙂
It was your last line that did it. x
Thanks, Sue. It got me too, when I wrote it x
I can imagine. x
When I saw the title of your post, I was expecting some sort of Ode to Supernatural Season 5, but I got this gorgeous poem instead! You really exceeded my expectations, and your photo is absolutely magical.
Thank you so much! I can’t take credit for the photo, as that came from Sue Vincent, but I’m so glad you enjoyed the poem 🙂
Your poem is gold just like the photo.👏
Thanks so much, Bernadette 🙂
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All things must pass. ❤
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Lovely and magical.
Thanks so much 🙂