The pandemic 4 years on
Remember?
The image above was taken 4 years ago, in 2020, when we were in lockdown. In the sunshine yesterday morning, before yet more rain came, I did the same walk and the view was the same. But what has changed?
For me and lots of people I know, the lockdown in the spring of … Read more
Happy 2024 – what do you wish for yourself?
Dear Reader,
I want to say sorry for not having written out-loud for so long. I’ve just checked; 1st October 2023 – Sparrowhawk. Where did that time go? Another year gone.
Life has been going on, as it does. Work, kids, friends, house, health. I am lucky to have so much, so many. I … Read more
Leaving
Yesterday I went walking by this river in my lunch hour and thought about how lucky I am that I can walk, that I have the time, that I work somewhere so succulent and green and cool.
Where the air is sprinkled with bird song and the river is flickering light,
Where the rocks grow … Read more
Missing you
One moment I’m walking through the spring woods with a friend,
waiting for the bluebells to blue
talking of this and that as her dog sniffs and scoots,
when suddenly there are puddles with no wellies splashing
sticks which are no longer swords
trees which are not made into dens
and streams which are … Read more
over whelm
over whelm
over reach
over stretched
over tired
over wrought
over achieving
over shot
over me
over and over and over
waves rise
crash
surge
pull
suck
pull
sink
gasping
beached
washed up
bedraggled
snaggled
shingle scratched
rock bruised
seaweed slimed
rest still
breathe
dry
feel the sand
see each grain
smell … Read more
Breaking point 3
climate
politics
economics
earth splitting
countries fighting
legs snapping
lives shattering
breaking
sundering
scattering
We two rest and heal
do not very much
let nature do her thing to knit and mend
to let sleep balm and soothe.
Oh that I could wish the same for all those souls.
But for all … Read more
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