- 02 Jul 20132View
Everything is a poem (1)
In the work of the world, everything is a poem;
slow petal hinges closing the drowsy flower - - 02 Jul 201313View
Twilight Garden
Twilight medicates
the hysterical summer garden.Laudanum of luminous blue
doping - 02 Jul 2013311View
The Mourning Bumblebee
The bumblebee mourns
among a graveyard of roses
he has loved all summer long.His murmuring
- 03 Jul 2013View
Give & take
When it rains
the sky gives
The earth does
when it shinesEarth and sky in pure love
give & - 04 Jul 201337View
Rugby Bees
Beery-plump bees
in gold-banded, furry rugby shirts –underarmour sleeves pulled
- 08 Jul 201315View
Letting Go – Alpendohle
I stand on tortured twisted rocks
Two and a quarter miles above
The surface of the sea they were - 10 Jul 201312View
The Leaves Have fallen
The leaves have fallen, the trees not dead but without
Clothing. It is deep winter here, the - 10 Jul 20134View
These Sweet Souls
Small birds, Red Grouse, scurrying mammals and
Short eared owls frequent the heather moorland. - 12 Jul 201323View
There's Only One Thing You Can Do
Toss your pebble in the river
Watch it ripple
And know you have moved the ocean - 17 Jul 20133View
Summer Squall
A summer squall is rolling in
A subtle draft, a pleasant breeze,
has turned into a broiling - 20 Jul 201321View
White Windmills
white windmills riding
on low cotton wool clouds
catching the wind;
changing currents to - 20 Jul 20131View
Expectant
Pregnant
clouds hang listless
and not yet come full term.
Expectant, I wait for the
- 24 Jul 20131View
The countryman
The day shook itself, sniffed the air and sprinkled sunlight on my face
I woke,washed,said grace - 31 Jul 201323View
Summer of '13
Autumn in summer:
Fallen leaves
yellow and shiny
like golden coins
of King Sun to us
mere - 05 Aug 201334View
If It Is Not Love
What is this feeling towards the swollen Sun -
bulging gold with the light of a whole summer, - 08 Aug 201344View
God Is Green!
The first true blue day of summer -
a simple song formed, whole
in my gulping heart.
Kept - 13 Aug 20133View
My sunny Sunday
Woke up to a crisp August day,
Sun was shining, birds were hungry
Time long past to feed - 18 Aug 201314View
Birds about
Hate to brag won't be doing it here
Just listing the birds I daily see.
Only to find out whether - 21 Aug 20133View
Winter in Munich
I
Whenever sleep is required, But resisted,
The baby is bundled
And pushed - 25 Aug 20133View
Alpendohlen – Wendelstein
These birds choose to live in rarefied air,
Where all around them mountain peaks
Can be - 25 Aug 201313View
Tawny Owl
She sits in a spindly lane-side tree,
Plump and delightfully pompous,
Chest feathers - 25 Aug 201326View
Death
There’s too much noise
For Darwinian comfort:
As the robins bring grubs
To the bushes beneath - 25 Aug 201313View
The Pursuit of Happiness
Garrulous choughs gather in the valley
As dawn etches rose and violet gullies
On frost-shattered - 25 Aug 20131View
3 Birdies
You know what I’ve always wondered.
Tree’s.
Who came up with the idea of tree’s
God - 27 Aug 20131View
The sounds of the Earth
Solitude and silence
Perfect and quiet
To feel at peace
A family of one
No worried strangers - 27 Aug 20133View
My World
Enjoyed this summer more than ever
Nobody disturbed my peace and quiet
Could rediscover myself and - 27 Aug 20134View
When We Are Gone
Guns loaded, silencers fitted,
Triggers pulled. This Is
The eve of slaughter. The
Ruthless - 28 Aug 20134View
Badgers
Badgers:
Once upon a time we were happy
What have we done to upset politicians?
We were simply - 03 Sep 201313View
The Male Satin Bowerbird is an Artist
The male Satin Bowerbird is an artist.
All the rest went chasing bugs and worms -
while his DNA - 18 Sep 2013View
Set in our ways
Black and white
followed closely by red.Bang
Another is dead.The superior race plays
- 18 Sep 20132View
Set in our ways
Black and white
followed closely by red.Bang
Another is dead.The superior race plays
- 19 Sep 20133View
Gentle Angels
The souls of badgers taken,
Thoughts removed, feelings
Disregarded. Blood flows
Under a harvest - 20 Sep 20133View
Another England
Mistaken for gusting leaves
Swirling mice chase
Around each other
Across paths at dusk;A fox
- 21 Sep 201312View
Red Clay and White Clay
I heard her finger
scrape the chalk board,
jarring me from impending sleep.Phantom
- 27 Sep 201345View
In the Cold Blue Smouldering of Autumn
In the cold blue smouldering of autumn.
Among ruined gold leaves,
smoking berry embers - 29 Sep 20132View
Nature's Joy
A perfect morning: getting up early
Before birds, listen to their little chat
Be one with nature, - 30 Sep 20132View
Tawny Owl
She sits in a spindly lane-side tree,
Plump and delightfully pompous,
Chest feathers - 02 Oct 20135View
Gorse and Broom on the Moor
A Pibroch of wind piping the brutal moor.
The souls of everything fled.The depressed moor
- 02 Oct 20132View
Moles in the War Cemetery, November 11th
The mist blanket
Tucked round the graves
Relents only slowly
To the wan autumn sun.The
- 11 Oct 20132View
The Burning Berries
Burning berries machine-gun heavenly blue,
godly iris.Firing seed, tree and water dreams
to - 17 Oct 20131View
Water Spirit
She whips up waves, wrests them to fury
surfs on Atlantic crests, her voicea siren's scream ,
- 19 Oct 201311View
The Green Man
I am a kiss that wakes the long dead winter,
a sleepsong that rouses new heart beats.
I am air - 21 Oct 20131View
Love Green.
Leaf through crisp textures
that twine and tremble
leaves that flicker dance
and tumble. - 21 Oct 20131View
Mole.
Considering where he's been
mole is quite sleek and clean.
Nose sharp, an arrow head'
his keen - 27 Oct 20134View
The Green Man.
I am a kiss that wakes the long dead winter,
a sleepsong that rouses new heart beats.
I am air - 27 Oct 20133View
Little Owl.
Hunger rides dawn to dusk
as little owl seeks prey ;
the only owl who hunts
in the heat of the - 27 Oct 20132View
Like David and Goliath
I watched a tiny spider catch
a hornet in it's web, in surprise
thought, a spider will not - 29 Oct 20132View
The Waves
Apprehension, excitement.
The rolling waves
Threaten to overwhelm us.
The plaques on walls,