Waiting for the bus:
stupid is as stupid does
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Travel theme: Laughter
Category: TRAVEL THEME
“Where’s my backpack?’s” challenge
Travel theme: Slow
no one in sight – Not a whole lot of reasons to move fast
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Travel theme: Above
modern ivory towers
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Travel theme: Above
Travel theme: Colourful
I still want an all white house
because there is enough colour
in my head
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Be bright and bold in the entries of Where’s my backpack?’s challenge
Travel theme: Colourful.
Travel Theme: Belonging
If I were five
I would wonder why
someone would give up
something loved
so long
so easily
but the years
are exponential multiplied
and the answer
to questions of possession
still manages
to break my heart
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Find a sense of place in the entries in Where’s my backpack?’s challenge
Travel Theme: Belonging.
Travel Theme: Arches
sometimes it is hard to look up
when all of heaven
seems as cracked and weary
as the parched earth
we walk upon
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Travel Theme: Arches.
Travel Theme: Endearing
that face
rescues me
when all hope
has been abandoned
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Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Endearing.
Travel Theme: Simplify
sand, sea, sky, sun
simple
∞
Get down to the basics in the entries of
Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Simplify.
Travel Theme: Meeting Places
north, south, east, west
coming from
or going to
we are usually on our way
to meet someone
do something
be somewhere
sometime
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Make contact in the entries of Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Meeting Places.
Travel Theme: Purple
clematis dream of dark midnight
where stars hushed voyage
is the only sound
to climb towards
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Put on a mauve mood with the entries of
Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Purple.
Travel Theme: Decoration
last christmas santa’s elves took label embellishment to a whole new level:
you don’t even want to know how they trimmed our tree…
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Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Decoration.
Travel Theme: Twist
silica twist in a soda ash dance
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Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Twist.
Travel Theme: Shine
so glad we don’t have to clean this one
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Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Shine.
Travel Theme: Fresh
vegetarian sushi – way better when made by the pros
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Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Fresh.
Travel Theme: Unexpected
black beer and pretzel artisanal donut
sweet, salty, superb
and an unexpected delight
from foodtruck friday
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Be surprised by the entries in
Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Unexpected.
Travel Theme: Cities
monuments in the old port attract tourists on even the greyest days
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Discover a new part of town in the entries of
Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Cities.
Travel Theme: Metal
steel jerry-rigging in the underpasses don’t exactly inspire confidence
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Get close to the elements in the entries of
Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Metal.
Travel Theme: Blossom
nature’s reminder
to slow down
and enjoy the moment
for too soon
it is gone
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Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Blossom.
Travel Theme: Rivers
will you remember
this moment
picture postcard perfect?
♒︎
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Travel Theme: Close-up
it is the small things
that make it all worthwhile
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See the detail in Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Close-up.
Travel Theme: Round & Glow
in a coffeehouse for sweet relief
the friendly giant whispered to me
from the dark and distant past:
look up, look way up
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Go around in circles with the brilliant entries
in Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Round and Glow.
Travel Theme: Clean
all things being equal, it could be worse
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Travel Theme: Misty & Tagged “M”
M is for Memory
a soft Mist that caresses
Mutters sweet nothings
in our ears
Makes Music of the days
or chills Mind
numbs the Mutiny
of Marauding thought
rolls over the Minefield
of the past
until its Metamorphosis
into Myth
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& Flickr Comments Tagged “M”
Travel Theme: Pink
is it possible to will the spring
dream away the snow
desire the sun
like a lost love?
i sigh for soft pink blooms
that sleep still
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Revel in the rosy entries of Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Pink.
Travel Theme: Gardens
I shall dig up my beauties
by the light of the moon
if i have to
for they will only thrive
under my hand
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Find the fragrant in the entries in Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Gardens.
Travel Theme: Tempting
Not so sweet
as the fragrant bounty of summer
but they still tempt
our winter-weary tastebuds
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Travel Theme: Romance
the only toy this mutt has not gutted
probably because it was found
and not given
♡
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Travel Theme: Yellow
Will I find these this spring?
The flowers here still sleep soundly beneath the snow while in other parts of the world
their cousins flaunt glorious petals under bright sun
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Travel Theme: Dry
like much else, these come in varying qualities of usefulness
BLAM – there it was right within arm’s reach. Hotel or home, plush or twist, crazy colours or bright white, there’s nothing like wrapping up in a really big towel to make you feel
like a little kid again…
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Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Dry.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Walk 100 Steps & Travel Theme: Wood
when knowledge stares us in the face every day
and events conspire,
they bring about the most fortuitous double posts
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Walk 100 Steps or less and take new photos
and then build up to the entries in
Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Wood
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