when rain dark day may not.
Cold but bright may make
for conversations- light -
where head-down battling
the gale to surly silence tends.
A perfect cloud, atop a burnished hill
And sunset gold subsides
As new moon climbs.
Friday, 27 January 2012
Jan 27 Stone
when rain dark day may not.
Cold but bright may make
for conversations- light -
where head-down battling
the gale to surly silence tends.
A perfect cloud, atop a burnished hill
And sunset gold subsides
As new moon climbs.
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Jan 26 Stone
The twin comforts of:
The start of the day
The coming of the night.
Dawn urges us to wake
If we let it.
Night rise relaxes us
Calms us for rest.
Yet we pay them little heed.
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Jan 25 Stone
The wind that stopped the ferry's arrival
and churns the lochs into whirlpools
and the waves into breakers and rollers,
Is the same wind that gently riffles
the water lying on the path into patterns
Is the same wind that raises the stream
till it flows back up stream from the cliff edge.
and churns the lochs into whirlpools
and the waves into breakers and rollers,
Is the same wind that gently riffles
the water lying on the path into patterns
Is the same wind that raises the stream
till it flows back up stream from the cliff edge.
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Jan 24 Stone
On trying to learn part of a piano piece:-
A Mozart concerto is an interweaving of some unexpected intervals
A Marvellous theme and melody: but the structure of the whole is
A Miracle of architectural and engineered support.
And I'll probably never master it.
A Mozart concerto is an interweaving of some unexpected intervals
A Marvellous theme and melody: but the structure of the whole is
A Miracle of architectural and engineered support.
And I'll probably never master it.
Monday, 23 January 2012
Jan 23 Stone(s)
Too much kept from the past
Can be clutter in the present
Will I need in the future?
Time may take away memories
So what are these triggers worth
And should I really care?
Early morning meeting
Slugs surface at night
Sliding into damp tiled outhouses
Silvering floors with their slime.
Sunday, 22 January 2012
3 Stones in the River
Jan 20 Stone
In the cold of the north and the warmth of the west, the gulf stream allows palm trees to flourish in summer. At this time of year their dead skirts of leaves droop decorously downwards, listless dun-coloured and tattered.
Yet, look up: the palm crowns battle darkly green against the South Westerly and protect a few lighter green leaves that peer, almost shly, from deep within the tree top. A warm winter results in signs of early spring.
Look down: the shoots of daffodils are cutting, lance-like, through the grass.
Jan 21 Stone
Watercolour wash blends seamlessly, unbidden with whatever comes next; just like this one moment blends into the next hour into the next day. Painting in the specifics turns a background into a picture, just as memory writes the remembered detailed portrait of today.
Jan 22 Stone
A rabbit with reddish fur at the back of its head, a white feather in the wing of a blackbird and a robin, too fluffy and pale breasted to be fully grown - each of these make me curious for answers I may never find, make me consider the value of the usual and the unusual and most of all make me aware of how even the most ordinary of environments is full of ever changing detail.
And those Questions:
Wild grey, a rabbit met an escaped pet
She was seduced by his russet fur?
The boy blackbird bullied in the nest?
Or was the white feather a badge of status?
A warm winter and a fledgling robin
Connected?
Early nesting is possible
But this early?
Any answers or more questions could all be enlightening.
In the cold of the north and the warmth of the west, the gulf stream allows palm trees to flourish in summer. At this time of year their dead skirts of leaves droop decorously downwards, listless dun-coloured and tattered.
Yet, look up: the palm crowns battle darkly green against the South Westerly and protect a few lighter green leaves that peer, almost shly, from deep within the tree top. A warm winter results in signs of early spring.
Look down: the shoots of daffodils are cutting, lance-like, through the grass.
Jan 21 Stone
Watercolour wash blends seamlessly, unbidden with whatever comes next; just like this one moment blends into the next hour into the next day. Painting in the specifics turns a background into a picture, just as memory writes the remembered detailed portrait of today.
Jan 22 Stone
A rabbit with reddish fur at the back of its head, a white feather in the wing of a blackbird and a robin, too fluffy and pale breasted to be fully grown - each of these make me curious for answers I may never find, make me consider the value of the usual and the unusual and most of all make me aware of how even the most ordinary of environments is full of ever changing detail.
And those Questions:
Wild grey, a rabbit met an escaped pet
She was seduced by his russet fur?
The boy blackbird bullied in the nest?
Or was the white feather a badge of status?
A warm winter and a fledgling robin
Connected?
Early nesting is possible
But this early?
Any answers or more questions could all be enlightening.
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Jan19 Stone (incl.Jan18 Stone)
Jan 18 Stone & Jan 19 Stone
(18th)
again a day when the stone failed to crystallise! but looking back on it I did notice:-
As a friend put on a fleece cardigan, the warm heather blue and light claret patterning lifted his whole appearance. The colours banished the cold grey pallor the weather had injected to his skin. We perceive warmth with more than one of senses.
(today 19th)
tackling the new and unfamiliar is scary, frustrating and fun
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