This is my response to the Ragtag Daily Prompt of 11 July 2018 — Dappled.
Immerse yourself in the sun and shade. Paradise or paradise lost?
Kubla Khan
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Read the full poem here.
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Kind Regards
Tracy
Reflections of An Untidy Mind 
Lovely, Tracy. Great use of the poem with the photos!
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Thank you, Steph. I’m struggling with words at the moment. Fortunately, it has all been said before me. 🙂
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Sometimes being able to access another’s words is a useful bridge.
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It’s a beautiful poem isn’t it? Ahhhh!
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It is. Ahhhh! ❤
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Those are properly dappled images!
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Right time, right place, Margaret. Thank you.
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Lovely images Tracy. Sometimes reading others’ words can be a nudge towards writing our own.
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Thank you, Su. I love that cross-fertilisation of ideas. Writing deadlines though, even self-imposed ones ……aagghh! 🙂
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😀 I know. I’ve worked most of my professional life in writing jobs and struggle endlessly with empty pages and a ticking clock.
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Those photos are spectacular. Where are they? Love that poem too
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Thank you, Pauline. I took those photos on my crappy old phone. I couldn’t believe that they turned out so well. Often I can’t see what is on the screen so I tap and hope for the best. 🙂 These were taken in the rain-forest section of the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
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I thought they may have been up north in the rainforests. The phone did very well
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It did. 🙂
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Love the poem and pics. I absolutely love the first photograph!
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Thank you, Dawnbird. I just got lucky with my little phone camera. 🙂
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Pretty impressive for a phone camera.
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