1344 - The Laneway

 

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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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