Roberta Writes – d’Verse: A haunting, Thursday Doors & Sunday Stills

d’Verse – A Haunting

Melissa’s challenge is to write a poem for an artwork prompt. You can join in here: https://dversepoets.com/2026/10/20/a-haunting/

Pelting down

in hard, icy bullets

sheets of water

distorting

elongating

shredding fog

transforming tendrils

into shrieking banshees

swooping and circling

forlorn chimney pots

ripping at streaming hair

flowing black rivulets

while beating in anguish

at their broken hearts

***
Cowering behind

buffering door

child stands

ears covered

small, cold hands

blocking sound

holding back fear

desperate not to disturb

mother, who lies

prostrate with fever

oblivious to

devious deceptions

of storm filled night

Thursday Doors

For Dan’s Thursday Doors I’m sharing some of my photographs of doors inside Chateau de Chambord in the Loire Valley in France. You can join in Thursday Doors here: https://nofacilities.com/2026/10/22/more-october-doors/

This first photograph is of Chateau de Chambord on the inside as the photograph was taken inside the courtyard.

The following photographs are doors inside the chateau.

Sunday Stills

Terri is back from her travels and is hosting Sunday Stills. You can join in here: https://secondwindleisure.com/2026/10/18/sunday-stills-monthly-color-challenge-colors-of-lava-and-black/

Terri’s topic this week is colours of lava and black. I am sharing some of my photographs from inside the Sudwala Caves in South Africa.

This is what Wikipedia says about these caves:

The Sudwala Caves in Mpumalanga, South Africa, are set in Precambrian dolomite rock, which was first laid down about 2.8 billion years ago. The caves themselves formed about 240 million years ago. They are one of the oldest caves in the world.