Perhaps life isn’t so straightforward and plans change or changed for you but you’re nudged nonetheless towards something nameless but necessary and so you follow, sometimes willingly, or perhaps not, and if so life will always return you to this fated place until all the fruit’s picked and the field grows fallow and only then can you leave for other spaces.
Posted in Response to the Daily Prompt: Places
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When the Door Closes 
March 17, 2015 at 9:33 pm
Love the photo, and the words go so well with it :)…. I suppose it is meant to be the other way around, but its the photographer in me that see it this way 🙂
March 17, 2015 at 9:57 pm
Aw, thank you, Lynne! I understand what you mean, though! Many times my poems are inspired by the photographs I’ve taken. 🙂
March 17, 2015 at 10:01 pm
I thought you would understand 🙂
March 18, 2015 at 6:41 pm
I love your photograph. The lines of the steps and the hand rail draw the eye in to the mystery of the place. The texture of the stones is accentuated by the b&w. The poem seems sad to me. There is an emptiness about leaving behind less than you give to a place. You’ve got me thinking!
March 18, 2015 at 7:27 pm
Thank you, Safar! 🙂 I debated between color and b&w, but I thought the latter was more powerful. I’m glad it resonated!
That’s an interesting perspective on my poem! I never even considered that aspect, as I meant it to be a reassurance that when life takes us to an unexpected place, it’s for a beneficial purpose (for our souls) – and we’re kept in that space until we learn whatever lesson we’re supposed to learn. I’m just optimistically-inclined and hope the lesson makes us better/kinder humans. But, you’re right, it could be read as selfish. Eeps!
March 19, 2015 at 7:44 am
I can see your intent quite clearly. It’s interesting though, how individual perspective and bias can colour interpretation. I am on a particular line of thought at the moment, which did affect my reading. I do like the poem by the way, it goes well with the photo.
March 19, 2015 at 6:33 pm
I took it as a compliment that my words affected you. 🙂 I used to feel art was sub-par to science (you know, it’s JUST art) – and perhaps that’s why I stopped creating for a while – but I recently realized that art is as important, a yin to the science yang, and a soulful way to connect us to ourselves (and our place in the scheme of things), to each other and to the natural world.
Anyway, sorry for the dissertation. And thank you again for not only visiting but starting such an awesome conversation! 🙂
March 20, 2015 at 5:00 pm
Oh, am I so in agreement. The two, I believe, are inextricably linked. The development of one at the expense of the other is an imbalance greatly needing to be redressed, just as yin and yang out of kilter creates all manner of ailments.
Science is only one means to attain knowledge and how bereft we are in neglecting other approaches? Science itself has demonstrated how magical and beautiful is the world and universe within which we live. … I can feel my own dissertation developing, Thank you too, V. Blogging is such great stimulus for thought.
March 20, 2015 at 5:08 pm
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