January 2013

A sudden, brief change in the weather: snow. Particularly after all the grey, it’s so beautiful…

Tinted pinks and blues,
snow, half-melted, now frozen.
Icing on the cake.   (from Silence of Snow)

(25/01/13)

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Ah, sunshine, after all the weeks of mist and fog, it’s glorious. Glittering.

Welcome visitor,
the sun showers us with gifts:
We’re all dripping gems.

(18/01/13)

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Out walking through the woods, sunshine at last, after weeks of mist and rain, the peace suddenly destroyed by a pair of jays…

Jagged screech of jays
rips the silent morning page:
shocking suddenness.

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Petrol-blue flashes,
bright comets in the dark woods.
The silence shattered.

(11/01/13)

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Out walking through the Winter landscape, blackbirds, every few yards, burst, screaming panic, from cover, blowing, in the process, their own – and scaring the bejasus out of  this quietly, contemplatively strolling human…

Innocent startler
startled by startled blackbird:
fright-flight-fright-go-’round!

(04/01/13)