It's Still Life

10.10: A Thursday Door

red front door, climbing rose, red polka dot boots, house is a blue colour
photo taken at Château de Chenonceau, Loire Valley, France, of double barn doors, red, open showing long hallway through the barn into a green garden area.

stone hushes the wind —
red doors part for shadowed steps
that never looked back.

green waits at the end —
time drips through a stone-lined throat,
measured by the sun.

Linked Senryū poems. Photo was taken at Château de Chenonceau, Loire Valley, France. Bushboy (Brian Dodd) shares photos of doors, but not just any doors. Spectacular doors from his journeys. Dan’s Thursday Doors opened the door on this. I love doors of all sorts. I’ve trawled through my photos and found a few to share.

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15 responses to “10.10: A Thursday Door”

  1. bushboy avatar
    bushboy

    What a lovely scene Misky. I like doors that lead somewhere and to have an arch at the other end is so good 😀

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Thank you so much, Brian!

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  2. Dan Antion avatar
    Dan Antion

    I like looking through the corridor with doors on each end, and your lovely poem guides the way. Very nice, Misky.

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Glad you enjoyed that photo, Dan, and thank you for the lovely compliment.

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  3. Chris Hall avatar
    Chris Hall

    All three are lovely…

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      (big smile) Aaah, thank you, Chris.

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  4. Violet Lentz avatar
    Violet Lentz

    Love this. Infact, I have an idea for a story using this photo- do you mind? also lemme talk to Brian….

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Of course you can use the photo … and thank you for asking. It’s very good of you.

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  5. Mister Bump UK avatar
    Mister Bump UK

    I was just writing about Chenonceau today – a scene in my novel ius set there and I’m partway through the edit.

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      It’s a beautiful place, particularly those tiled floors, and the long gallery over the river. Lovely place.

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        Mister Bump UK

        yep. It’s set in Orleans which allows me to visit all these places.

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  6. Suzette Benjamin avatar
    Suzette Benjamin

    An excellent photo and I love the bit of mystery to where this door might lead.
    Wonderful poetry…brilliant sentiments “the stone bushes the wind…”

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  7. Oddment avatar
    Oddment

    “Shadowed steps that never looked back” — evocative poetry, evocative image. Beautifully crafted.

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Thank you. 🙏

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