Thursday photo prompt: Causeway #writephoto
This week’s prompt ~ Causeway
For visually challenged writers, the image shows a calm seascape in half-light, with a pathway of stone leading through the waters towards the horizon.
Beyond the horizon
I stand barefoot on the wet sand
beside the ragged rocks
Of a long-forgotten causeway
Beneath a soft blue sky
with the straight-line horizon before me
I await for evening
As I have for the past 72 years
To stand beneath the blood moon
Once every ten years
When the Isle of Lenora can be seen
whitewashed walls gleaming under the red moon.
The first time I stood here I was twelve
My father told me the story
Never believed I had seen the shining city,
I think he was disappointed at never having seen it himself
After so many years, time passed,
I believed my father when he said I had imagined it
Now I wait on wet sand, wondering how I can reach
Beyond the horizon to enter the white walls of Lenora…
©anitadawes 2020
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