Pigeons in a hot sky
Morning comes
Molten sun
Casts sepia silhouettes
Surreal beauty
Wrought by an atmosphere
Fraught with death
Home in a couple of days
Where battered lungs
Complain for another week
Pigeons in a Hot Sky
From the Rooftop of Tara Palace Hotel
Red Fort in the distance
Chandni Chowk (Old Delhi)
New Delhi, India
Taken during travels, 2017
Pic and a Word Challenge
Last week we set ourselves in Motion.
This week, let’s get backlit with Silhouette. Or seek something else to inspire you in this sunrise photograph of Red Fort from a hotel rooftop in New Delhi’s Chandni Chowk district, 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, podcast, video, 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: Motion
The word for last week’s Pic and a Word Challenge #361 was Motion, along with this photograph of a passenger jet wing at dusk somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.
- Motion, by WoollyMuses
- Motion, by Blog of Hammad Rais
- Motion, by For the Love of
- Pottery in Motion, by The New 3 Rs: Retire, Recharge, Reconnect
- Turning toward Sounds of Motion, by Mellow Curmudgeon
- Motion, by Frost on the Moose Dung
View all the Pic and a Word Challenges, including the current challenge, on the Pic and a Word Challenge tag page.
Happy Creating! ❤