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Photo Challenge: Danger

The danger of horses is not their strength and power, thrusting forward with a brilliant heart, ribboned with intelligence, clean...
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Photo Challenge: Wanderlust

It’s the irresistible call to scout hidden ravines and gaze along the elevated vistas behind the shade of an eyelash,...
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Photo Challenge: Earth

Earthling, born of indelible green, translucent waters, boundless clouds and sky, and tasked in each small life to be curious...
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Photo Challenge: Surprise

Dawdling through chores, then a dousing in the shower And rushing to a book event, I checked the visor-mirror for...
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Photo Challenge: Security

The feel of home. You tuck it safe in some tidy place, half-way between fresh dreams and dear memories. If...
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Photo Challenge: Dense

Stupid. Dense. Stubborn. Lazy. Until we stop seeing others in our own worst self-image, these words will describe us. .......
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Photo Challenge: Easy Being Green

  I’ll take this gray rain to wet a controlled burn in my lungs that’s taken my air and dropped...
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Photo Challenge: Atop

  It's an inherited seat; elders and babies ride loose in time, strong and vulnerable and not quite domesticated. Sky-tall and exquisitely...
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Photo Challenge: Wish

We felt them close before we had skin; from an infinite prairie the vibration began. A slow rolling nicker rumbled,...
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Photo Challenge: The Road Taken.

  Dreams are only transparent. On this routine day, let my eyes close in simple praise for ordinary moments of...
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Photo Challenge: A Good Match

A contrarian and a curmudgeon; fairy tale non-believers with parallel differences, kindly melding the gaps. Together. Separately. .... Anna Blake at Infinity...
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Photo Challenge: Against the Odds

Roused by a whisper from a lost distance, through cold glass windows in deserted basements, down wet alleys, past dumpsters...
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Photo Challenge: Shadow

I mean to blur the edge, a half-stop between dark and light, of the distance between us. He's walked on from this...
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Photo Challenge: Solitude

    Out on the fringe of wrong, and late, and forgotten, and just not being a match, hold and...
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Photo Challenge: Repurpose

All of us here, we used to be someone else. We each had a plan; it was meant to go...
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Photo Challenge: Grace-ful

It's an intimate moment, a recognition of soul, held and acknowledged, then returned in kind. Softly now, abide. .... Anna Blake at...
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Photo Challenge: Ambience

It’s the pastel light, the thin clear air, and a shared breath so deep and sweet: Even as I travel...
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Photo Challenge: Names

Hold clean intention in the word chosen to label a life given to your care; words are prayers that illuminate...
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