Day’s end
A gentle paddle
On glassy seas
My body
At peace
With my mind
With the land
With the water
With the sky
My spirit rises
To the surface
Of my being
My consciousness
Swirls in the essence
Of all that is
Like eddies
Hugging a paddle
In a vast
Bottomless
Sea
Porteau Cove Provincial Park
Howe Sound
British Columbia, Canada
Pictures from home, 2021
Pic and a Word Challenge
Last week we tested our ability to Construct. This week let’s take a leisurely Paddle, or seek something else to inspire you in this fish-eye photograph of to stand-up paddle boarders at Porteau Cove on Howe Sound, British Columbia, Canada.
The Pic and a Word Challenge is (usually) a weekly creativity prompt offered (also, usually) Mondays.
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 to illustrate your post, or any images 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.
The previous challenge was: Construct

The word for last week’s Pic and a Word Challenge #280 was Construct, along with this fish-eye photograph of a cyclist riding through Creekside Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- faux foodstuff, by Defying Atrophy
- Construct, by WoollyMuses
- Construct, by Mapping Uncertainty
- Legs are a Bad Construct, by Manja Mexi Mexcessive
View all the Pic and a Word Challenges, including the current challenge, on the Pic and a Word Challenge tag page.
Happy Creating!