Challenge
Vacation destination. Write a piece, poem preferred, but anything is fine, about the ideal vacation destination. There are rules. No naming the destination, no use of the following words: paradise, vacation, holiday, sunny, wet, tropical, fun, beach, hot or cold, sun, snow, swim, tan. Get the idea? Try slightly obscure, nothing too obvious. Show me where you want to go and paint me a picture with your words of what you want to do when you get there. I will try one too. Tag me.
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Where We Used to Walk
Champagne light filters through treetops.
Dew-dropped grass shining like diamonds
Beneath the few meager rays of morning.
I draw the ether deep into my lungs,
Scents of pine and damp tree bark
Dance in the air around me.
Twigs snap beneath my sneakers
As I sprint down the old trail
My grandfather and I once walked.
Slowing ever so slightly,
Planting my hands firmly
On the horizontal corpse of a fallen tree.
Legs swinging smoothly,
Like a gymnast in earth-bound flight,
I vault over the obstacle, feet first
Into a forgotten past.