Rishikesh to Delhi
World in flight
Through a bus window
At 80 kph
A flurry of images
In unknown tongues
Gone too quickly to understand
Collected in 1/680th time
A moment stopped for further consideration
On a later date, today
Bold art, like old propaganda…
To announce a new hydroelectric dam?
Drag the photo into translate
“Great Compressive Strength”
Ah, just an ad for concrete
I wonder again
At how unfathomable
The wide world could be
Before Google
…and yet, remains still
Great Compressive Strength
Abuja Cement Advertisement
Rishikesh -> Delhi bus
Uttarakhand, India< /p>
Taken during travels, 2017
Pic and a Word Challenge
Last week we sought joy in Vivid colour.
This week let’s find our Strength. Or seek something else to inspire you in this photograph of an Abuja Cement advertisement painted on a roadside building, taken from a moving bus on the road from Rishikesh to Delhi, Uttarakhand, India.
The Pic and a Word Challenge is a weekly creativity prompt offered Mondays.
With each challenge I provide a photograph of mine along with a single word. The challenge? Use the pic and/or word as inspiration to create something — a photograph, a painting, video, podcast, 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 challenge’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: Vivid
The word for last time’s Pic and a Word Challenge #358 was Vivid, along with this photograph of vividly coloured homes on Green Point’s gloomy foreshore in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, Canada.
Four bloggers found Vivid this week. Thanks, everyone! 🙂
- Vivid, by Woolly Muses
- Mythic Past, by Mellow Curmudgeon
- Vivid, by Dancing Echoes
- Vivid, by The New 3 Rs: Retire, Recharge, Reconnect
View all the Pic and a Word Challenges, including the current challenge, on the Pic and a Word Challenge tag page.
Happy Creating! ❤