#Writephoto ~ Causeway #Poetry

Thursday photo prompt: Causeway #writephoto

 

This week’s prompt ~ Causeway

Image by scvincent.com

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.

 

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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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  1. Lisa Coleman Avatar

    If you get beyond the horizon, will you be able to return? Or maybe it is such a glorious place, you may never want to return. Sounds like heaven to me. Excellent writing!

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    1. jenanita01 Avatar

      Sue’s images are always so inspiring…

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      1. Lisa Coleman Avatar

        Yes they are. This one got me going. 😊

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  2. balroop2013 Avatar

    I love your thought-provoking poetry Anita, profound and meaningful.

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    1. jenanita01 Avatar

      Thank you, Balroop…

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  4. Darlene Avatar

    A lovely lyrical poem. Thanks. xo

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  5. judeitakali Avatar

    Beautiful 🌼, I’d like to know more about Lenora.

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  6. jonicaggiano Avatar

    Very beautiful Anita, such a lovely visual poem and the picture is also so gorgeous. Love Joni

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    1. jenanita01 Avatar

      Thank you, Joni…

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      1. jonicaggiano Avatar

        🌸😘🌺❤️

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  7. D. Wallace Peach Avatar

    Beautiful poem, Anita. I hope you recover the magical vision of childhood. <3

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    1. jenanita01 Avatar

      Thank you, Diana…

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  8. Sue Vincent Avatar

    There are many mystical islands off the coast of our own…
    A wonderful telling, Anita.

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    1. jenanita01 Avatar

      Glad you liked it, Sue…

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