photo courtesy of Magpie Tales and R.A.D Stainforth

Sad news this week about the death of Hollywood actress Lauren Bacall.  There are many quotes attributed to her and here is one of my favourites,

 'Imagination is the highest kite one can fly'. 

I found the Magpie picture a challenge this week but let my kite of imagination have a little blow in the breeze ....

It was a Sunday.  It was always a Sunday …

‘All aboard and ready to write?’ Captain Tess called.

‘All board and ready to write’, chorused the Magpies.

Several squeezed into the island ferry bound for The Sound of Yell. Many were still struggling with jet lag from the online get-you-there-quickly jet.

Everyone keen and enthusiastic for Magpie’s first ever ‘Words on Water’ tour.

The smug travel coordinator smiled about the commission she would make from this particular trip from the Mainland to the Sound of Yell.

Whose idea was it anyway?

It really didn’t matter,

Word was out

And the Maggie bookings came thick and fast.

The first ever-writing retreat on the water

Competition was intense

Heads down,

No distractions.

Maggie writers scribbled hard and fast

Words in wisdom, words in rhythm,

Words repeated line after line.

Creative juices did ebb and flow

Writers’ block had nowhere to go,

Sharpened pencils and a fountain pen

Words repeated again and again

Laptop writers typed the prose

Questionable poetry, god only knows.

The poets, the scribblers, the dribblers of rhyme

Tut-tutted and longed for time.

Engines slowed and

The foghorn blew

‘Writing stops’

Shouted one of the crew.

The “Words on the Water’ tour must end

To Magpie Tales, my tale I send!

A woeful rhyme, I must confess

But I’ve had some fun, so thank you, Tess.