A new blog to contain answers to prompts |
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Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas " |
| Prompt: Have fun with these ten words: wording, leash, soak, stock, platform, grandmother, plane, eternal, inspector, and February. ---------- Further Than Departure My *grandmother sat beside me, her house-dress smelling faintly of lavender and love. “Travel,” she said, “and let the world *soak into you. Don’t just pass through it.” So, on a gray morning, one *February, I stood on the *platform, my ticket folded like a secret in my glove, and the loudspeaker’s *wording blurred into the crowd, his each syllable trailing off, as if loose cash in careless hands. A distant *plane carved a silver line through the pale, uncertain sky, while below, the newsstand displayed its *stock of headlines and heartbreak, while an *inspector paced the edge of the yellow line, measuring time with polished shoes and a narrowed gaze. I felt something *eternal stirring, not in the engines’ roar or in the timetable’s strict command, but in my grandmother's steady soul having my back, her words though so far away now, guiding me forward without a *leash, trusting that I would come up with truths to have them *soak into people better than tears with their *wording further than departure, and love no inspector could tally, and no grief could freeze. |