Welcome to the Picture it & Write creative writing exercise. I invite people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (please provide a translation). Anyone who wants to join in, is welcome. This photograph will be reblogged under Ermisenda on tumblr and added to the Picture it & Write gallery on Facebook and Pinterest.
Please continue to write however you’re inspired, but add a tag to the beginning of your post if there’s mature content in order to keep Picture it & Write an engaging event for all of our followers.
Is there a man in the moon or is it made of cheese? Does the man cry? Would the moon melt into a fondue pot if it got too close to the sun? Surely it is neither man nor woman, for it is consistent. It waxes and wanes. Us lesser mortals strive for it. “Reach for the moon. If you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” That was all well and good until the movie Gravity came out. I want to keep two feel on Earth at all times, save for roller coasters, airplanes, and the like. That doesn’t keep me from dreaming though. Like the North Star, the moon is something I can rely on. It rises and sets. It reminds me that though the world often feels large and lonely, that we call look up at the same moon. We all sleep under a similar blanket of stars.
–Eliabeth Hawthorne
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Love this one, beautiful and inspiring 🙂
http://oreshmemoirs.com/?p=200
I couldn’t comment on your blog. But it was a very good piece. The idea of change and the issue of missing the past and what was lost was very powerful here. Nicely done.
Thank you, Joe!!
During my more than fifty years, I have speculated on why we are here, why we suffer. Your piece was the sort that makes me think of such things.
For me, neither religion nor materialism holds the answer.
Fiction holds the answer to everything!
Hauntingly beautiful.
that is ONE beautiful-inspiring picture !
Glad you liked it Shandra! We try to find inspiring pictures every week.
One of those nights when the moon plays who’s-got-the-button with the river
to the point where you’d swear they’d changed hats, coats, heads, language
and if you dipped your tongue in the water you’d taste silver as soon as fish-
skin, or put your head back and lean into the breezes and wind up drenched.
Interesting take on the prompt. It would be very confusing I’d imagine.
That’s what I do. 🙂
What is who’s-got-the-button?
One of these things where you all hold something behind your back and someone has to guess who has it and in which hand. I think.
Cool thoughts! Sometimes when the moon is just rising, it does seem that close.
Haha, I can’t reply right, but that sounds like a fun game. A fragment of Austen-esque proportion, M… I like the changing hats.
http://shandraharris.com/2014/05/24//19135/
I enjoyed it, thank you for sharing your writing with us this week. I also enjoyed the inclusion of a song; I have a song in mind to use the idea one week if I find the right image to go with it. Rather obsessed with Lindsey Sterling recently.
Oh I love her energy and creativity. Looking forward ro reading your inspiration next time. Thanks for hosting Picture it & Write.
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Good piece on the commonality of man. I like it. Here mine for this week http://joe2stories.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/the-worlds-edge/ enjoy.
As I said on your blog, loved it! The twist in the tale (tail) is sublime.
The moon is leaking
A river of silver flows
And washes away
Beautiful haiku.
Many thanks 🙂 Beautiful writing prompt!
Good one!
Thanks 🙂
Lovely!
Aww, thanks 🙂
molten invisible fire
shaped her inner desire
she tipped her haiku
silver poured through
for the rest of us to admire
Beautiful!!!
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This is my bit from the Netherworld blog. http://dothedead.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/netherworld-youth-sonny-day/
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Hi Ermilia and friends~I enjoyed this flight of the imagination~Here is my effort~
I absolutely love LOVE ♥♥ the moon-cheese fondue!
Helps if I add the link: Crucible.
Here goes my entry 🙂
http://livinglifegreenspeck.blogspot.in/2014/05/now-this-is-what-i-call-moon.html
The girl dipped her fingers into the river, liquid moon was the missing ingredient for the health potion for her grandma, she was getting sicker by the day. Liquid moon could only be gathered on the first night of a full moon. She gathered a bowl full and started walking the long way back to her village.
At her village she mixed the liquid moon with cherry blossom leaves, ground dung beetle and llama milk. Once the potion was ready, she went over to the tent where her grandma was on her death bed. She gave her grandma two spoonfuls, waited exactly five minutes and gave her two more. Ten minutes later her gran woke up and told her beloved granddaughter ” Tonight is the night they die”
Hehe, I might be inclined to kill my granddaughter if she fed me dung beetle! I wonder why her first resolve in renewed life is murderous? Hints of Pet Sematary?
Thank you, I did not get that far, I like the picture and writes, it really makes me think. Thank you for reading my story 🙂
I tried to click on your site and it says it’s been deleted??
That’s strange, it’s wrking for me. There’s a direst link http://bookgeeking.wordpress.com/
Thanks for sharing it!
Well that was an ending! Don’t mess with Grandma.
Thank you very much 🙂
Oh yeah, you go Grandma 🙂 I’m sure the cherry blossoms cancel out the dung beetle 🙂
Ye that was what I thought, medicine usually tastes nasty so I had to get something yucky in. lol 🙂