solid underfoot
top class ascent to darkness
into the unknown
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Our 52 Week Photo Challenge prompt this week is SOLID
The photo was taken on my trip to Japan in November. Oh how I loved those gardens, so calming and perfectly pruned. The rocks – solidity! And the bushes clipped to make the bushes look like a solid form.
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Ronovan’s Haiku Prompt words are: CLASS and FIRM
the two sentences work like this:
solid underfoot, top class ascent to darkness
top class ascent to darkness, into the unknown
As I understand it Japanese gardens are full of symbolism and often depict aspects of a journey through life. This path could represent a journey to ‘heaven’ or the end of this life ready to be reincarnated into the next.
I have made an attempt at the two opposing concepts of something being known, solid or firm and then in the second sentence,’ unknown’, no longer solid and known. Do you think it works?
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Next week’s Photo Challenge Prompt is OUTLINE
Ravelry
Wild Daffodil 
Love the photo and the hint of a coming journey into the mystery of life. 🙂
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Thank you Olga, it certainly adds another dimension to walking through a garden when all is metaphor.
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I love your poem and your picture of the footpath is just beautiful and inviting. Also, I gave a try at your photo challenge which is also a part of a haiku challenge and here is the link if you would like to take a look: http://beckygblog.com/2016/03/13/beckys-haiku-class-and-firm/
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Hurray! Lovely to have you join us, and the haiku as well! 💜 Brilliant!
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Just beautiful and so inviting. If told to picture shrubs and steps one would hardly visualize such curves, yet there they are. All looks well cared for. Perfectly solid. And yes, your opposites work as I read it.
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I hadn’t thought of it like that Melissa. It really is the curves on the rocks echoed in the curves of the shrubs that give such a pleasing serene scene. I am glad I got the opposing thoughts in this week. I wonder what Ron gas in store for us tomorrow.
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I dithered for days with mine but finished up with my original thoughts which you can see at https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2016/03/12/an-old-gate-post/
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Sometimes those initial thoughts just won’t let go! So good to have your entry – already in the draft round-up this week!
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Those steps in Japan are so beautiful and as you point out the clipped hedges enhance the scene. I have found a good solid garden wall. Take a look at https://digwithdorris.worpress.com/2016/03/12
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Good solid wall Dorris, with a great pattern too.
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Worth all the effort Sandra! Works well. 💚💜💛❤️💙
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Thank you so much Roz. I keep at it to get there, but sometimes I run out of time, or my brain aches so much I have to stop and have to say ‘that’ll do’.
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Brain Ache/ Haha! you and me both!!!
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Great combination Sandra. Wonderful memory of Japan also.
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Thank you Denis. I do love going back over those photos of Japan and was pleased to be able to use one for the challenge this week.
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It absolutely works! The photograph is gorgeous, so serene. And although we may not know where it leads, we can be sure it is lovely.
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It surely works!
Really liked the way you have got opposing concepts in the Haiku with an awesome picture to go with it. It just matches perfectly 🙂
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You have made my day! Thank you! 🤗
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A path that looks like it have been there for a long time, and will survive through the ages. Very solid.
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It does look like it could have been there for thousands of years doesn’t it.
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Yes – a definite contrast, and from the light to the dark too, according to your photo. Those clipped bushes look amazingly solid, don’t they?
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Thank you Cathy, I like to give it a go, to get the elements in. I find the opposing ideas the trickiest, glad you think I managed it.
Japanese gardens are micro-managed to get the look, with someone in there clipping and sweeping most of the time, and yet it looks so natural.
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Those slabs cerainly look solid. Great photograph and choice.
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Thank you Rainbow J
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Fantastic footpath and super interpretation of solid.
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Thank you Cathy, I get quite excited to see each interpretation of the theme.
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Great haiku Daffy, who knows where they will lead?! 🙂
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Thank you Eddie. Each day is a leap into the unknown isn’t it! 😉
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Oh yes it really is 🙂
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