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Words for Wednesday
North Wind Eric Gill (1929) – Tate Britain Opus 1 Wind strums the sinews plucking nerves – discordant chords Stretching skin taught beating – staccato rhythm Striking the ribs expelling air – bass...
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Be what you would seem to be
Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be...
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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...
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Time Travelling
Moving through the night Running from the grand ennui (Cole Porter 1934, Michael Nesmith 1971) Reading Girl, Théodore Roussel, 1886-7, Photo: © Tate, London (2014) The himalaya of ironing is behind...
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Lions on the beach
Ardivachar beach, South Uist Reeling into the wind, staggering along the beach like ancient mariners tossed onto a distant shore, our progress erratic as storm tossed debris. As dark squalls spin...
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National Poetry Day – Seeing the light
Helios rises Animating the landscape A haiku is bornFiled under: Miscellaneous, Poetry Tagged: haiku, Helios, National Poetry Day
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