Hello there! Hannah here with nature’s amazement #4 to cause your muses to be hungry and haunted!
Feast on this…
Hitachi Seaside Park, located in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, next to the Ajigaura Beach, is a flower park and a popular tourist destination. The park covers an area of 3.5 hectares and the flowers are amazing all year round. Each season you will find a different variety of flower blossoming over the “Miharashi No Oka”, a hill commanding a panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean. The park is particularly famous for blue nemophilas. Nemophilas are annual flowers with transparent blue petals. During spring, more than 4.5 million blue nemophilas bloom all over the park. The blooming period is called “Nemophilia Harmony” and attracts many visitors, (Tech and Facts).
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The opening scenes in this short video are strikingly haunting…
Caused me to think of a direction...if one chooses to accept...a challenge, perhaps…
In your poems today let’s try to bring a focal point...if one were to create contrast in a way that this specific scene in this film does...with these tall, dark, powerful trees standing amidst such ethereal, colorful, fragile beauty...so you can choose what your focus will be but try to bring a contrast and climax with your imagery, sensory and otherwise.
You may write about this place in paticular or qualities of it if you wish or if you’re inspired in a different way by these offerings than give that muse free reign to express herself/himself.
Have fun...remember to visit as many blogging peeps as you can, (that’s the fun supportive part), and please write and link only new pieces for this challenge!
Thank you!! :)’s
I enjoyed this one, especially the video. To play it, I had to change browsers and I'm glad I did. The music together with the flower scenes made me feel almost relaxed, which is a very difficult way for me to feel. In 1989 the Sleep Disorders Clinic at the University of British Columbia had me sleep over for two nights, all wired for one thing and another. After that they pronounced that my muscles don't relax when I sleep, but didn't offer any solution. I felt cheated.
ReplyDeleteBut the combination of the video and the music here just mellowed me out.
Thanks, Hannah!
Just beautiful, Hannah.
ReplyDeletethanks, Hannah... very beautiful, evocative, restful.
ReplyDeleteHannah, I always love your imaginative and inspiring prompts and I will definitely be back with a ghost or two - working today, but will be back later.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, Hannah. The music, the flowers...I just took a deep breathe and sighed a long, relaxing sigh.
ReplyDeletebreath, no e, sorry. I think I misunderstood the prompt as to contrast - that's OK, I guess... I have enjoyed the other poets doing it right and beautifully, though!
ReplyDeleteI am in awe, especially of the blue shot. Gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful Hannah. Thanks for sharing it with us.
ReplyDeleteglorious Hannah- thanks! and have a gorgeous day!
ReplyDeleteThank you all so much for taking the time to comment here! I look forward to enjoying each of your poems!
ReplyDeleteAlso...I'm a prime example of one who opted not to write about this place specifically...I chose to approach the "suggested" challenge part of this...really it's all about being moved by your muse and I'm happy to read all that is newly inspired by this post.
Anyway...a disclaimer...haha!
I hope you all have a beautiful weekend. :)
Hannah ... I think I did both - wrote about place and adhered to the challenge... let me know. :) Thanks. This was one of those I initially thought (I've got nothing)
ReplyDeleteSorry Toads - I linked incorrectly here. Can you delete me?
ReplyDeleteNot sure I followed instructions but what I have is finished.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the fun.
Late to the party as usual, Hannah, but I'm up with a bit of silliness fresh from the garden, if not maybe quite exactly this particular garden. ;_) I'll be around to read later after chores.
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