Helios rises Animating the landscape A haiku is born
National Poetry Day
Lions on the beach
Reeling into the wind, staggering along the beachlike ancient mariners tossed onto a distant shore,our progress erratic as storm tossed debris.As dark squalls spin across the horizonheads withdraw, sheltering in gore-tex carapaces.Eyes narrowed by reflected diamond lightsalt stinging tears funnell down furrowed cheeks.Cries of wonder are carried beyond the wind,Lions on the beach!Maroon manes tangled […]
National Poetry Day, Outer Hebrides
Waiting for the Tide of Inspiration syllables dancing in the spray,words rolling in grains of sand,antonyms hiding in fronds of kelp,synonyms twisted in shining alginates,will the wind release the rhymes,sonnets to soar above the waves,or leave them tangled in flotsampoetic debris, drowned doggerel?
National Poetry Day in the Outer Hebrides
WINTER LIGHT Think mostly mutedas if seen through grey veils still think abundant green, dullerwater-logged brown in placesmoss green fringed fawn think cinnamon and gingerthink peat brown dug deep, almost blackthink grey burns, grey lochsgrey sea trailing white spray Then think a low down sunthink peat grass glowing crimsonon the hill think marram glossing ochreover […]