To cross the gap
Or tear it down
No going back
Below the deck
A roiling rift
Divides our world
Apart, we drift
But let us take
A moment, slow
To contemplate
Terrain below
I’m sure we’ll find
On valley floor
Our common ground
Then peace restored
Athabasca River
Jasper National Park
Alberta, Canada
Taken during travels, 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 images
- You may use my image in your post, or any image you have created
- 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.

Twelve bloggers felt the Stillness this week. Thank you, everyone! ❤
- Solstice, by Dancing Echoes
- Stillness, by Woolly Muses
- After – A Quadrille, by I Do Run
- Ruckus in the still of the morning, by Mexi Movie the Third
- Fluid Stillness, by Stuff and what if…
- On the Edge, by Heaven’s Sunshine
- That moment in time…, by Pen to Paper & Camera to Beauty
- Stillness, by Ladyleemanila
- Twas The Night, by Proscenium
- Watching in silence, by THE59CLUB
- Awash in Stillness, by Padre’s Ramblings
- Bespoke dawn, by A Shared Space
View all the Pic and a Word Challenges, including the current challenge, on the Pic and a Word Challenge tag page.
Happy Creating!