Ever higher
To catch the wind
To touch the sky
To vouch for god
Never leaving the earth
But detached from it
Gone from ground
I reach
Beyond myself
Flutter in the wind
Adrift in the sky
Lost to god
Now seeing the earth
Connect to it
Become the ground
I reach
Into myself
Breathe: To still the wind
Mind: Empty as the sky
Centre: On the godhead within
From Jericho Beach
Vancouver
British Columbia, Canada, 2017
The Pic and a Word Challenge is a weekly creativity prompt offered Sundays.
Each week I provide a photograph of mine along with a single word. The challenge? Use the pic and/or word as points of inspiration to create something — a photograph, a painting, prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, longread or just a few words. You are welcome to use these two elements (photograph and word) literally, thematically or metaphorically. If you create both images and words, all the better.
To participate:
- Use any title you like
- Your response can be words and/or an image
- You may use my image in your post, or any image you have created
- Place the challenge’s Pic (if you use it for inspiration) and Word prominently in your post
- Mention that you are responding to the Pic and a Word Challenge
- Add a link to this post in your response
To help us find your response — whether on WordPress, Instagram, Flicker, Tumblr, etc. — you can also:
- Add a comment on this post to announce your response
- Apply the tag/hashtag “Pic and a Word Challenge” or “#picandawordchallenge” to your post
Each week, I’ll list the previous week’s responses at the end of the new challenge. I may also share some on my social media: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, etc.
![Built for Speed, Corvette Stingray, The Glancy Motor Hotel, Route 66, Clinton, Oklahoma, United States of America](https://pixtowords.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/built-for-speed-corvette-stingray-the-glancy-motor-hotel-route-66-clinton-oklahoma-united-states-of-america-copy.jpg?w=300&h=280)
The word for last week’s Pic and a Word Challenge #138 was Speed, along with this photograph of a Corvette Stingray parked on Route 66 in front of the Glancy Motor Hotel in Clinton, Oklahoma, USA.
Six bloggers went for Speed this week. Thanks everyone!
- Not So Fast, by Dancing Echoes
- [speed], by Twenty Four
- Speed, by WoollyMuses
- If We Could, Would We, by Inky Tavern
- Wind, by Being in Nature
- Speed of Light, by Stuff and what if…
View all the Pic and a Word Challenges, including the current challenge, on the Pic and a Word Challenge tag page.