For some time, I’ve wanted to share images I’ve captured around the world with other writers as a tool for inspiration…
Without further ado, I announce “Where in the World Wednesdays?”
The format is this:
1) Check in on Wednesday to the “where in the world Wednesday?” link, right here on Word Traveling
2. Grab a guess at where (or what) the image is…
3. WRITE. WRITE. WRITE. Poems, thoughts, inspirations, stories…. wherever the words take you.
Post your words in the comments below! Homeschoolers and poets are WELCOME and encouraged to participate!
4. Enter your email at right to follow my blog. LIKE us on Facebook. Link your words and my contest to your site!
5. Come back the the following Wednesday, I’ll announce the winner of the signed, matted 5×7 image which inspired the winning words!
6. Write again. There will be a new image to inspire words! The instructions will remain, but the image will change! Scroll through past comments to see other entires as they take flight!
- I see things differently.
“A photograph takes the mind hostage in its quest to free the soul” ~ quoted from my new Blog template site.
Where will photos take you?
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11 responses to “Where in the wor(d) Wednesdays?”
SIENNA’S DUOMO? OR MAYBE NOT…
There are churches, cathedrals too
Places all over the world where worship
Is practised, spaces where the devout go
To be at their most holy when they
Feel the most exalted, or the most troubled
But nowhere is religion observed
More spectacularly – at least not Christianity
Than in the Duomos of Italy – from the gothic
Many-spired fairy-tale beauty of Milan’s
To the unexpected sequestered opulent
Grandeur that is Pompeii’s main street find
One cannot go anywhere without literally
Tripping over homage to God so elaborate
One’s breath is snatched away by the sheer
Audacity, the amount of excellence artists
Have poured out to honour their faith…
S.E.Ingraham©
Love it!
Thanks for playing along as the journey begins!
Peace-
Jen
Hi… You WON- “like” us and then connect with me via facebook or email and I’ll mail your prize! Please keep playing along on Wednesdays!
Be blessed!
Building
He sprawls on the floor,
surrounded by plastic bricks
that carry him to a world
without wall-to-wall carpeting
or time outs or taller people
leaning down to speak
into his upturned face.
Instead, he bends the walls
and paints with sweeping
strokes in limitless patterns
of anything goes.
Oh, to have that perspective again! Thanks, Catherine-
any guess as to where?
Be blessed-
Jen
Umm, Vezelay Abbey?
Catherine- You WON! 🙂 Ok, all three of you did as it was the first week and I’m feeling generous:)
But, seriously- LOVED your analogy of the lego bricks!
Like Word Traveling,sign up for the email, and then Contact me via FB with your address for your prize! And, please play along again this week! Cheers!
Jen
Cathedrals
We build these crazy things
one
brick
at
a
time,
knowing we may never see
the beauty we’ve created
amid all this rubble. For every
brick we fight, and we
sing and wait for the acoustics
to kick in just right, carry our
voices high, and when we look
up to watch them go, we gasp
oh
feel the light
and realize it’s all
worth it.
.
I have no idea where this might be, you well-traveled girl, you. 😉 Somewhere in Italy, perhaps?
The Duomo in Pisa, read all about it today! And, you (ok- everyone) WON! xxoo
Excellent photo, thanks for the prompt. Poem at the link.
Thanks, Mark! Inspiring words- yes- His majesty is more than the building. Check out week two for the new prompt and “where” it was!
PS- Your comment was in SPAM- but as it was my inaugural week, you too are a winner! Message me offline with your mailing address!