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2021

8/27/2020

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Each week, author Suzanne Burke invites readers to use her photo prompt to write a poem or tell a story. Her Fiction in A Flash Challenge! is now in its 15th week. Perhaps you'd like to participate and if so, just click on the link above to go to Suzanne's website for more information. 

This week's prompt is a photo of the interior of a destroyed home -- windows broken, floors ripped up, walls damaged. It's a haunting image, one that is all too familiar right now. As I focused on the home, I saw children running through its rooms and wondered, yes wondered, about 2021. 


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2021
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elections over

we rebuild and gardens bloom

hope is ours again



24 Comments
Harmony Kent link
8/28/2020 04:40:58

A lovely, hopeful take on the prompt, Gwen :)

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Gwen Plano
8/28/2020 08:05:18

Thank you, Harmony. I initially went down a different trail, but then decided next year will surely be better, and wrote about that possibility instead. ♥

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Suzanne Burke link
8/28/2020 13:54:07

Thank you for this moving contribution, Gwen. i have just had the pleasure of sharing it on the challenge site. ❤

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Gwen Plano
8/28/2020 16:34:07

Thank you, dear Soooz. I went down a different road at first, and then changed my mind. 2021 has to be better!

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Mae Clair link
8/28/2020 18:35:41

I look forward to that time, Gwen.
I am so ready for new beginnings in 2021.

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Gwen Plano
8/28/2020 19:48:55

Thank you, Mae. I think we're all quite weary with 2020. Hope your weekend is a peaceful one. ♥

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D.L. Finn
8/29/2020 01:26:30

Your poem offered some peace with a hopeful future. A much needed voice, Gwen xo

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Gwen Plano
8/29/2020 04:17:40

Thank you, Denise. I hope the California fires are far from you and yours. ♥

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Ingalls Karen
8/29/2020 05:04:34

I like how you brought our current social and political situation into the photo prompt.

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Gwen Plano
8/29/2020 08:33:21

Thank you, Karen. ♥ Have a fantastic day.

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John Howell link
8/29/2020 09:15:32

Well done, Gwen. Let's hope it happens.

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Gwen Plano
8/29/2020 14:19:07

Thank you, John. It is my hope for sure!

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Jan Sikes
8/29/2020 10:45:51

We can certainly hope, dear Gwen!

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Gwen Plano
8/29/2020 14:19:49

Thank you, Jan. Yes...we can hope. ♥

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Jacquie Biggar link
8/30/2020 10:31:33

As long as we have hope, we can survive. This is beautiful, Gwen <3

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Gwen Plano
8/30/2020 19:52:11

I'm with you, Jacquie. Hope can guide us through whatever craziness lies ahead of us. ♥

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Staci Troilo link
8/30/2020 11:24:25

I'm so ready for 2020 to be over. Here's to hope blooming.

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Gwen Plano
8/30/2020 19:53:09

We need a magic wand that can help us leap over the next 4 months. ♥

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Joan Hall link
8/30/2020 15:21:32

I'm so ready to put 2020 behind us. Praying for a better 2021.

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Gwen Plano
8/30/2020 19:53:52

I'm with you...praying for our country and the world. Goodness. ♥

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Jill Weatherholt link
8/31/2020 06:49:11

Beautiful, Gwen. Without hope, we are a lost nation.

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Gwen Plano
8/31/2020 08:11:29

Thank you, dear Jill. I agree with you about hope...we need to hold on to it at all cost. ♥

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Vashti Q link
8/31/2020 11:43:09

A lovely and optimistic poem, Gwen. When I first saw this picture it reminded me of hurricanes Andrew and Katrina and all the devastation they caused. I'm hopeful for 2021. <3

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Gwen Plano
8/31/2020 16:28:15

Thank you, Vashti. My first haiku response was a bit dreary, so I decided to look ahead to next year. Surely, life will be easier then! My hope!♥

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