Beacons ~ Pic and a Word #198

Beacons, Amphitrite Point Lighthouse, Ucluelet, British Columbia, Canada
We stumble over the blackened terrain
The dim beacon of possibility our guide
A brilliant luminescence promised
Just a few steps beyond our vision

These are the affirmations
With which we keep hope alive
And find in ourselves
The tenacity to persevere

This is how we establish
Purpose and meaning
Our reason for being
No matter the undertaking

These beacons
Were not set by fate
Nor any divine intervention
But by our own dreams

A life without dreams
Is a life of darkness
A blackened terrain
Unmarked by beacons

Dreams create hope
Hope creates purpose
Purpose creates meaning
Meaning lights the beacons

Beacons
Amphitrite Point Lighthouse
Ucluelet
British Columbia, Canada

Taken during travels, 2018

Last week we retreated to our Fathers. This week, let’s find guidance in Beacons, or find something else to inspire you in this sunset photograph of a couple rounding the lighthouse at Amphitrite Point in Ucluelet, British Columbia, Canada.

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:

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Last week’s challenge: Fathers
Tyaughton Caonoeing, Tyaughton Lake, Chilkotin Mountain Range, British Columbia, Canada
Challenge #197 ~ Fathers
]The word for last week’s Pic and a Word Challenge #197 was Fathers, along with this photograph of a canoe On Tyaughton Lake in the Chilkotins of British Columbia, Canada.

Six bloggers visited with Fathers this week. =) Thank you, everyone! ❤

View all the Pic and a Word Challenges, including the current challenge, on the Pic and a Word Challenge tag page.

Happy Creating!