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The Sunday Whirl presents twelve words for us to use in a creative writing piece.
This weeks words are:
earth, herbs, cobbled, vines, thread, spark, heart, whispers, witches, shifts, pearls, words
The Laneway
“It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Life is like a winding cobbled laneway,
Bumpy, twisted, and somewhat random.
Aromatic herbs grow in corners, in cracks,
Where earth has gathered over ages.
Vines twist and thread their way up fences,
Some houses present their faces to the path
Opening their heart and hearth to the traveller,
Others present their back—not wrong, just different.
Coloured gateways, fences of all sorts,
Line the traveller’s path, guiding and repelling.
Whispers, words heard behind these walls
Indistinct but emphatic, spark thoughts
That, like the laneway, weave and shift.
The mind of the walker of this cobbled path
Hears the gems, the pearls, but also the doubting
Thoughts of the witches, demons and goblins
Perched on fences, chattering, incanting, laughing…
“Turn back, Dick Wittington! Turn back!”
But there is no turning back.
The laneway closes behind you.
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