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I hate running on a treadmill. My ankles give out well before I’m ready to stop. The mechanical drone interrupts the music being pumped into my ears unless I turn the volume up so high I risk damaging my eardrums. Like a hamster on a wheel, I don’t care if I “run” a mile or a 15k, I don’t feel like I’m going anywhere. Even when there’s a TV show to watch, nothing compares to jogging on a trail first thing in the morning. The only problem with that… well have you seen the news lately? Morning joggers are the ones who find the dead bodies.
-Eliabeth Hawthorne
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Ermilia 
Well, the conservatory is a fine place to end up. Sitting and watching the seasons roll by overhead. Somehow I always felt I would end up in a museum, admired from afar and kept under lock and key. Such illusions are really only for the living. Once the body is gone all that remains is a small piece of will, a tiny seed of remembering. Egypt has gone now, long gone in dark times and even darker tombs. I, Cleopatra, have been moved from place to place, never kept for long.
Ugh, moths, I’m not fond of moths even now. It is better than rats, far better than dogs and eternally better than a wet Roman sewer.
Now I will watch the seasons flow past and remember until I fade into nothingness.
Gorgeous! I love that it was written from the perspective of the skull.
That was very clever.. I agree with Ermilia… gorgeous..!
Ack! One order of cremation please! Illusions are only for the living. I like that.
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This is my contribution to the challenge:
http://memyselfandela.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/to-be-or-not-to-be/
Ela 🙂
I was a little confused by the parenthesis in the middle of the writing, but otherwise I liked it.
The parenthesis was meant to give more meanings to the poem (if you read the word without the letters in the parenthesis it’s a different word. It was just an idea of giving it multiple meaning.
Many thanks Ermilia. 🙂
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Well, I guess I am glad I don’t jog! Nicely done. Here is mine.
http://musingsfromtheturnippatch.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/picture-it-write-4613/
Off to read the others.
Hi Jane, have you been watching Face Off too? There was a makeup this week of a stone venus flytrap that “the painting of a woman with teeth in her forehead,” brought to mind.
that’s a really cool photo. i jog in the morning and i shudder to think of discovering dead bodies. ick. horrible way to start a day.
I jog at night, which is probably just as bad. You’ll come across the dead body in the morning, I’ll come across it when it’s happening!
lol i’ll stick to my morning schedule then
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my story this week 🙂 http://theeclecticeccentricshopaholic.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/picture-it-write-xvii/
Oh limbo, what an awful place to exist. I found it interesting that she would have preferred even Hell over her current state of being. At least she retains her imagination.
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Here is my contribution: http://edgarsroad.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/awaken/
I borrowed the logo for picture it & write and made the link to your site. Thanks 🙂
Interesting how the mind works. I also liked the coma idea, thanks for contributing and glad you like our little graphic.
thank you for the opportunity.. 🙂
Hi, this is a 5 minute thing I contributed. Please take a look 🙂
http://hidingbehindbooks.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/museum/
I can see the speaker in two different ways. In the first, the speaker is a loved one trying to honor a recently diseased loved one. They want to put a filter on their friend or family member so that only the good parts of his or her life is remembered. In the second, the speaker is a museum curator, trying to get the most out of an exhibit regardless of the truth. Instead of a random mummified child, they fabricate a story.
Wow – brilliant image, it’s way too early to write (just after 7:30 on a Sunday morning!
I will carry my thoughts in my head for a while and come back to post and read later.
Yay, scary thoughts to start a day!
Great writing 🙂
Haha, since I write it ahead of time, I didn’t think about someone waking up on Sunday to that image.
Great picture – thank you! Here’s my contribution:
http://kingsleycw13.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/picture-it-and-write-8-the-skull-muah-ha-haaa/
Beautiful descriptions. “The darkness of the room was broken only by the gentle morse-code of velvet wings beating unfathomable thoughts through the evenings’ early light.” Interesting ending!
Teammate Adam at the Undead in the Netherworld blog created this contribution using your prompt. He’s been a busy bee this morning, I must say!
That is a very impressive image.
This was fun. Here’s my take:
http://writingsbycharleen.blogspot.com/2013/04/image-from-httplikescommiscamazing.html
Haha great tie in at the end!
Here is my entry 🙂
http://gotmeghan.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/picture-it-write-death-of-me/
I like the hamster on the wheel and I like how unexpected the running and the treadmill were, but then it totally made sense at the end. Sometimes the morning joggers are the bodies too, huh?
I’ve been feeling mortality a lot lately, so here’s …And Then I Died.
Tell me a story
Sing me a song
Birds with no feathers
Moths six feet long
I’ll write you a poem
I’ll draw you a map
I’ll give you a skull
As a place for your hat
The flesh of your bones
Will melt when I tell
Of witches and demons
And bats out of hell
My tale may be gruesome,
A story of pain
But at least it’s your choice
To go down that old lane
So pull up a chair
Or sit tight in your bed
Snuggle down in your blankets
Perhaps hide your sweet head
But fear not my dear child
Each tale ends in laughter
With princes and crowns
And happily ever after
Haha; that was very sweet… 🙂
I agree. Very sweet. I nice bedtime rhyme.
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My goodness, I thought I’d be one of the the first to post this week’s Pi&w; how wrong I was…! 😉
Loved yours, Eliabeth. Better to stay on that treadmill, me thinks.. 😉
And here’s mine:
http://abcofspiritalk.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/picture-it-write-favourite-treasures/
Here, where it began.
Life, has forever been touched
By the wings of death.
Something simple this week! I started to write these lines and then realized they were perfect as they are and decided not to try to drag it out!
Simple is perfect!
Loved the haunting pic! So many different versions to read! here is my entry http://wp.me/1Zs7k
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Anglers on the rivers find dead bodies too. It happened to a friend of my dad. Not a good thing.
Here’s mine for this week
http://joe2stories.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/picture-it-and-write-gustav/
Joe
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Here’s my submission:
http://ericmvogt.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/for-love-of-lazarus/
A captivating picture and a very good write-up. Do find my take here:
http://call2read.com/2013/04/09/picture-it-write-5/
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Here we go – a pirate’s life for me….
http://thewritersvillage.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/the-skull-and-butterfl-eye-picture-it-and-write/
I had fun with this one, ye water-soaked galley-eyed, daughter of an empty clam shell… read on if ye dare!
Randy
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Love the image! Here is my entry:
http://donettas.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/who-i-was/
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Now i will be scared to look around in my morning walk 🙂 You captured the feeling quite naturally.
Here’s my contribution
http://scraps-from-life.blogspot.in/2013/04/just-call.html
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Didn’t know where this was going. but well here is my contribution: http://evilnymphstuff.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/a-message-from-death/
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I posted mine on a shared blog… ‘Poet’s Corner’. the link is http://poetscornerblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/site-for-sight/#more-10514. Please read it. 🙂
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