#writephoto – To The Seven

Another lovely #writephoto prompt from Sue Vincent. If you’d like to participate, you have until Wednesday next week to respond to the prompt. Here is my response:

They say I had a glass casket. That I was surrounded by flowers, a wonder of the woods.

But the truth is far simpler than that.

After all, they were woodsmen, miners, the seven who cared for me. Men short in stature and in funds. Where would they have found the glass to make it, the gold to bind me?

Instead they made me a bed from what they knew. Timber, gift from the forest that sheltered us, carved with their axes, shaped with love. And they laid me there, sheltered by branches, leaves my coverlet, flowers my crown.

I was a princess. My rescuer, a prince. But I’d been saved long before he came along, with his lips red as the apple that had laid me low.

And so my bed of wood remains, a memorial to love and friendship.

To the seven.

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36 thoughts on “#writephoto – To The Seven”

I love this perspective, Helen. x

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Helen Jones on July 6, 2017 at 7:47 pm said:

Thanks, Sue 🙂 x

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Wonderful Helen!! I really liked that!!! We did indeed think upon the same lines!

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Helen Jones on July 6, 2017 at 8:16 pm said:

Thanks, Ritu 🙂

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Nice one.

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Helen Jones on July 6, 2017 at 9:33 pm said:

Thanks, Craig 🙂

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Love this!!

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Helen Jones on July 7, 2017 at 6:25 am said:

Thanks, Jessica! 🙂

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Nice remembrance of what those seven dwarfs contributed to the story.

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Helen Jones on July 7, 2017 at 6:25 am said:

Thanks, Frank 🙂

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Great response Helen, I see it was a well occupied bed….

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Helen Jones on July 7, 2017 at 7:43 am said:

Thanks, Michael 🙂 I guess it was!

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Awww, that’s lovely. I can actually picture Snow White saying that.

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Helen Jones on July 7, 2017 at 6:12 pm said:

Thanks, Allie 🙂

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Aw, Snow White. I saw this photo and thought it was such a real life fairy tale. So much magic. This is beautifully written. Love it. ❤

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Helen Jones on July 8, 2017 at 7:31 am said:

Thanks so much, Sarah – it was the first thing that came to me. 🙂

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This is LEGIT! Please expand!! ❤ 😉

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Helen Jones on July 8, 2017 at 7:31 am said:

Ooh, thank you. I might, you know. I realised the other day I have quite a few story fragments kicking around now after all the prompts I’ve done 🙂

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- Kristin on July 9, 2017 at 4:33 pm said:
  
  I’ve gotten some of my best work from prompts!
- Helen Jones on July 9, 2017 at 9:18 pm said:
  
  Me too! Current WIP came from a prompt… 🙂 Hope you’re still writing x
- Kristin on July 12, 2017 at 8:47 pm said:
  
  I haven’t been writing for a bunch of reasons but I should get back to it! Encouragement from wonderful writers like you really makes me think about it!
- Helen Jones on July 12, 2017 at 9:57 pm said:
  
  I hope you do get back to it – if it’s calling to you, do it! 🙂 xx
- Kristin on July 14, 2017 at 2:23 am said:
  
  I’m glad you think so! It hasn’t been calling but i should be productive and do it!
- Helen Jones on July 14, 2017 at 6:24 pm said:
  
  Well, if you’re feeling it, get writing! 🙂