For everything in history
There’s always a hint of mystery
From an engraving in a rock
To an X that marks a spot
X Marks the Spot
18 responses to “X Marks the Spot”
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Ingenious!
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😀 Thanks, Tess!
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Okay. So, this one brought back a very bad memory of my ex-husband. But, that’s okay. MTM already did that to me today with the outfit he selected, so it must be some cosmic today thing. 🙂
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Ah. Oh. Sorry about that, Andra… invoking bad memories is the last thing I want to do, and especially so during your Birthday Month. But as MTM has done it as well, I’m thinking that maybe some kind of message is trying to get through to you… maybe not from the memory itself, but something ‘around’ there? Just thinking aloud here though, so don’t quote me! The Universe works in many strange ways, so this may be the case…
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Did you shoot this picture through the night vision goggles you’ve had lying around the attic in the mansion?
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It does look night-visiony and atticy, LA, but it’s neither. Them’s the hactual colours (alhap maybe a little colour-popped for blogging purposes). I’ve yet to explore the attic… I’ve only been here ten years.
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Hmmm…that’s a very pretty stone, where the X is! And the griffin looks awesome! (that is a griffin right?)
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The X is one of my Rune Stones, Shree… I can’t read them, but just have them just in case! The X represents ‘Gift’, incidentally, with the Old English name being gyfu. The creature on the touchstone is a griffin… although when I photographed it I first thought it to be a phoenix. Then I thought it was a dragon, then a wyvern, before settling on the griffin. It’s coincidental how the gyfu and the griffin found themselves together when I photographed them… which has given me an idea of something further to investigate!
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Cool stones T….You’ve got quite a collection…Did you unearth them when you built the mansion? I wonder what the X rock was marking?Perhaps you should find out! VK
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Thanks VK… no the collection built up over time… I don’t look at them very often, but had the urge to photograph them the other day after snapping the photo of my crystal ball. The X represents gift, the Old English meaning being gyfu. I just found that out for Shree (I didn’t just ‘know’ it or anything! 😉 )
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A concisely excellent verse. Love the slant rhyme ending the second couplet. Your words evoke the wonder that we often associate with childhood, but which is present whenever we allow ourselves to get lost in the pursuit of amazing mysteries in this world.
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Thanks, Gabriel.
This was another of those hastily thrown together pieces as I needed to get my post ready by midnight, only had the photo to work with, and nothing was coming to mind! Hence the very few lines. I love getting lost in the mysteries of the world though…LikeLike
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I love mysteries,… Sir Aquatom, mayhap Mr ‘X’ has misplaced his rock, and someone (not pointing the finger at anyone in particular)… has moved it, thereby… losing the precise location of… TREASURE?… Got my bucket and spade ready… Now…Where precisely did you find said rock?… gulp!! Not near a Gryphon nest?…. You’re on ‘yer’ own!! 😉 xPenx
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The griffin’s the guardian, Lady P… the X marks the gift. But what is the gift? (I’ve just added a further mystery to your mystery!)
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Love the Griffin Tom! 🙂
Maybe X will mark a very interesting spot – now where did I leave my backhoe? 🙂
God Bless my friend! 🙂
Prenin.
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Thanks, Prenin.
I think we may need a map first… 😉LikeLike
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