Thursday photo prompt: Causeway #writephoto
This week’s prompt ~ Causeway

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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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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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Sue’s images are always so inspiring…
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Yes they are. This one got me going. 😊
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I love your thought-provoking poetry Anita, profound and meaningful.
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Thank you, Balroop…
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A lovely lyrical poem. Thanks. xo
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Beautiful 🌼, I’d like to know more about Lenora.
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Very beautiful Anita, such a lovely visual poem and the picture is also so gorgeous. Love Joni
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Thank you, Joni…
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🌸😘🌺❤️
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Beautiful poem, Anita. I hope you recover the magical vision of childhood. ❤
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Thank you, Diana…
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There are many mystical islands off the coast of our own…
A wonderful telling, Anita.
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Glad you liked it, Sue…
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