Waiting

Lost toy, Highgate, London, November 2023
Lost toy, Highgate, London, November 2023

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I’m outside the door

if you’d care to take a look

it’s been a long time

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Rocky

Abandoned rocking horse, Buxton, April 2024
Abandoned rocking horse, Buxton, April 2024

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Bedraggled, unloved

and surplus to requirements

second life awaits

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Unusual find

Cannon, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, March 2019
Cannon, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, March 2019

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Not seen too often

a cannon long forgotten

the decline and fall

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by Scooj

Smurf


.

Smurf lock, Bristol, May 2023
Smurf lock, Bristol, May 2023

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lost or discarded

where are you all coming from?

should be locked away

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by Scooj

  • With apologies for any earworms generated.

Mickey take

Lost Mickey, Bristol, May 2023
Lost Mickey, Bristol, May 2023

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Abandoned or lost

a cheerful disposition

betrays your sadness

.

by Scooj

Lost

Lost toy, Bristol, March 2020
Lost toy, Bristol, March 2020

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Momentary lapse

too distracted to notice

lost and never found

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Unbroken

Abandoned doll, Dean Lane, April 2021
Abandoned doll, Dean Lane, April 2021

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Expression remains

unbroken by broken love

all is not yet lost

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Abandoned

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Good sense of humour

which in the circumstances

could be essential

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by Scooj

Thursday doors – 13 June 2019

Doors 74 – Neglected Bristol doors

A few more doors that have seen better days, or if you’d like to look at them through a different lens, might have been given a second and rather more interesting life.

Abandoned door, Bristol, June 2019
Abandoned door, Bristol, June 2019

Is this the same abandoned door? and can you see the door behind all the posters? Stokes Croft, Bristol, June 2019
Is this the same abandoned door? and can you see the door behind all the posters? Stokes Croft, Bristol, June 2019

Jody door, North Street, Bristol, June 2019
Jody door, North Street, Bristol, June 2019

Archway and door in Leonard Lane, Bristol, March 2019
Archway and door in Leonard Lane, Bristol, March 2019

Character-building? tagged doors in Moon Street, Bristol, June 2019
Character-building? tagged doors in Moon Street, Bristol, June 2019

So there we are for another week.

If you’d like to see more doors take a good look at the Norm 2.0 blog – the orchestrator of Thursday Doors where there are links to yet more doors in the comments section at the end.

 

by Scooj

Done in

 

Completely burned out

and abandoned with no one

left to care for you.

 

by Scooj