On Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word; BEND. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here . The poem below does have the word ‘Bend’ in it, and that’ll be close enough for me …
Featured Image: Another marvelous photo by, Derrick Knight >> https://derrickjknight.com
The World’s Fractured Mirror
At the close of day
Sunset’s empty Amphitheatre
Descends across a bend in the twilight zone
And semidarkness
Oppresses the horizon’s
Endangered vanishing point
What loiters beyond
The skylines diminishing aurora?
Will the night-fires of war
Continue to be entrapped
For ever and ever, inside
The world’s fractured mirror


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A powerful image, Ivor
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Thank you Derrick
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Your poetic thoughts are fascinating Ivor. 🙂
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Thank you Sue … a little bit jumbled, but intriguing 🤔🌏
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Very powerful
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Thank you Beth 🤗🌏🌌
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powerful sad expression as I look so naively at the sky Ivor!💗
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Thank you Cindy… oh .. my words are just a perception/an Ekphrastic interpretation of Derrick’s magnificent photo, and again I am trying to emphasise how the “war” unbalances the World 🌍🌏🤗💕
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You’re so welcome Ivor. It was a perfect match! It sure does.. 🥲
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Yeah … hopefully our wonderful sky is not falling down yet 🤗🌏💕🌌
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I should hope not! 💗
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Unfortunately, those ‘night-fires of war’ do seem persistent 😦
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Thanks Ingrid … yes … my Ekphrastic interpretation of Derrick’s intriguing photo 🌌🤗
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A stunning interpretation of Derrick’s photo, Ivor!
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Thank you kindly Eugenia, and Derrick’s was stunning 😍
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Brilliant!
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Thank you 😊
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Let’s hope peace on earth becomes a reality in our lifetime. 🙂
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That would something to celebrate Suzanne 🤗🌏🌻🇺🇦
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it’s hard to like let alone love what we see happening in the world today, the mirror reflects humankind’s own selfish choices more and more starkly each day – powerful poetry Ivor
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Thank you kindly Gina, … and I just wonder where we are heading, … we seem to be losing balance with our naturalsurroundins …
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i agree Ivor so much destruction and not enough thought to the future ….sigh…the next generation will have it even harder
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It’s a tough subject to writer about … my words are only conjection, and I have lots of questions with no answers …
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don’t fret Ivor your words bring the awareness we don’t have to have all the answers
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Lol … I want our world to do betterer …
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One word at a time right Ivor!
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Right I write….
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