Melancholy Moments
by imagii at pixaby
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hazy mist conceals
dark melancholy moments
hidden dangers lurk
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cloudy perspectives
landscapes shrouded in gray fog
time to look within
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This is my contribution to Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday with the image and Sue Vincent’s haiku as prompt.
#TankaTuesday, #MelancholyMusings
writing to freedom 
Beautiful
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Thank you!
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You’re always welcome
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😃
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👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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I love this image and the accompanying words. We have had quite a bit of mist lately and I love the quietness that come with it. It’s as if the world is taking a nap. Thank you Brad. 🙂
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Exactly Janet. I also love the quiet and mysterious feeling of misty, foggy days. The melancholy was a surprise from the prompt and my muse. 🙃
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Wonderful :)X
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Gorgeous, Brad. Have a lovely day and take good care! HNS 💕
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Thank you Tanya. I will have a wonderful day carrying your blessing with me. HNS! 🥰
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Beautiful poem on Melancholy Moments, Brad and the picture too was perfect. Lovely.
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Thank you dear Kamal. May we embrace the mysteries of life.
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You are welcome Brad.
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Beautiful, Brad. The prompt was so evocative. I especially like the “looking within.” So often that’s where the lasting clarity and light can be found. Well done, my friend.
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Agreed Diana. I needed the reminder because I still look without too often! It’s good to allow different feelings and ideas to express in my poetry and writing. Maybe one day I’ll work up to short stories or a short book!
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Sometimes I think poems are stories condensed down to their essence. You have the core, so if you ever decide to write a story, you might take that essence, add characters and setting, and bring that seed to life. I love to see what you come up with. ❤
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Wonderful suggestion. Thanks Diana!
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I can just imagine your weather, Brad.
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Thanks Robbie. We didn’t have this weather or mist, although I would welcome it. I simply let my muse play with the image and writing challenge from Colleen and Sue.
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Haunting words and images.
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Thanks Cindy. Thankfully, this is just my muse and imagination. No crisis here! 😋
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Hazy and foggy times urge us to seek clarity, for sure. Beautiful poem, Brad!
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Agreed. Thanks Miriam!
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You’re welcome, Brad!
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Oh Goodness…Sounds like you can use some sunshine Brad….Hope things become more cheerful for you…Great picture btw…Thanks for sharing…VK 🙂
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Thanks VK. I’m fine. My imagination simply went toward melancholy. 😋
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such a mystical, beautiful image and your words reflect perfectly brad! love your creative heart!
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Thank you Tania! 💞
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The words draw me in within …is it the haze itself that creates the meloncholy?
I like the reminder if things get blurry, stay within and trust. Beautiful poetry – it actually brings up the feeling in me.
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I’m grateful that my words can touch and move you Pragalbha. What triggers our feelings is personal and mysterious.
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Beautiful experience created through your words.
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Thank you. 🙏
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The marriage of the visual and the verbiage is perfect to create the feel you were after….awesome and sad. Hope all is well!
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Thanks Kirt. I’m glad you found the mix intriguing. Melancholy doesn’t have to be bad.
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Not at all…introspective is probably a more appropriate word.
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Beautiful work, Brad. The greatest treasures lie within our shadows.
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Thanks Kim. Kudos on your brave and wise reminder.
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Beautifully written, Brad. The mystique of the dense mist/ fog brings you into a quiet mood of
reflection.
Miriam
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Agreed. Thanks Miriam.
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Really enjoyable and meditative even 😀
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Thanks and welcome. 😀
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This is amazing 👌🏾
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Thanks for the visit and kind words.
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You could have been stood outside our home Brad, as this picture depicts the dark dreary misty rainy dull damp days we have had in the UK recently..
Lovely poem…. May your melancholy moments be few and far between.. 🙂 ❤ 🙏💚
Have a wonderful day and weekend Brad…
Stay Blessed and loved my catch up ❤
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Thanks Sue. I actually wasn’t feeling melancholy. That is simply where the prompt took me. I appreciate you and your concern. 🙂 🙏💚
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Glad to hear it ❤
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I love the way you use the view of the landscape as a metaphor for journeying within, where dangers can also reside!
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Exactly! Thank you Andrea.
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Powerful piece, Brad. Matching the photo so well, but also the mood this year has brought us ~ life is so far off track from what it is normal, it makes it easier for us all to stumble into those “dark melancholy moments, hidden dangers lurk”. Well done ~ and wishing you a great final month to 2020, and a super holiday season.
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Thanks Randall. It’s interesting how often an image, mine or others, stirs feelings and inspires me to pen a poem. Yes, lots of stumbling around this year. Thankfully hope seems to be hovering and growing. May this season fill our hearts and inspire a year of love and progress.
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So perfectly penned to match the emotions of the photo, Brad!
What a perfect photo for the topic as well. It’s funny to me how I see black and white and shades of gray during the “down” times…and a kaleidoscope of beautiful colors when “UP!” (It even happens in my dreams!)
Stay well…and I hope that all is going well for you ❤
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Thank you Lorrie. I’m glad my muse awakens periodically to write some poetry or life musings! I experience much the same around colors and my moods, feelings, and attitude. More motivation to live fully! Hugs….❤
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I love when you write poetry! Here’s to seeing wonderfully bright…rainbowesque colors more than you see BW & GRAY!! ❤
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Yay! Nature helps lift my spirits and perspective.
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Brad, eerie to read your haikus as they reflect my inner musings and mood exactly … shrouded so much by darkness, trying to look beyond this. Wonderful poetry and atmospheric photo!
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I’m sorry you’re going through that Annika. Hopefully, not too dark or overwhelming. take care
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It has been at times but much more light in my life again now … thank you. Beautiful writing!
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Thank you. I’m glad to hear there is more light now.
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Beautiful work!
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Thank you Smitha.
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How lovely, just captures the darkness of autumn turning to winter.
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Thanks Cath! I hadn’t thought of it that way, and like your perspective.
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Wonderful tanka, so full of meaningful reflections!
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Thank you Neha!
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I’ve missed the presence here on your blog, Brad! This was a gentle landing post as I had been away a short while. Sometimes the melancholic is so gentle and kinder than we think. Sometimes resting a little while in the fog is welcome. But what I really like is the way you wrote your poem and your exploration with your creativity. 💕
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Thank you for the kind words Ka. And for receiving the beauty of melancholy.
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♥️
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Would make a lovely book cover.
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Thank you and welcome.
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