Silhouette ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #362

Pigeons in a Hot Sky, Red Fort, from Tara Palace Hotel, Chandni Chowk, New Delhi, India

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

China Southern Airlines CZ329, on approach to Vancouver International Airport, British Columbia, Canada
Challenge #361 ~ 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.

Six bloggers were in Motion this week; Thanks everyone!