Nature

Devizes Valley Tree

how green is our valley…

cows and insects and mud on your shoe

air on the wing of a bird in flight

the hills and the trees our fathers knew

all painted with wind in a Wiltshire light

by Gail

Transient Flame

For Steve

Transient Flame

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How time flies;

Like birds and bees

Transient nectar

Deciduous trees

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How leaves fall;

Like stars in sky

Meandering streams

Passers by

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How oceans flow;

Like blood in veins

Wind over mountains

Bloom strewn plains

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How life flames;

Like a fire fly

Light in the shadows

New born cry

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by Gail

Catabolic Grace

‘Harvest’

reproduced with permission ©Oliver Freeman

http://www.oliverfreeman.me.uk/

this poem was inspired by the powerful images

of nature and decay; of beauty and desolation

in Oliver Freeman’s art

Catabolic Grace

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land undulating

in to rolling furrows ploughed

defiant decay

waste of catabolic grace

dross in to gold in to dross

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at the seasons edge

green waves, shining muddy rills

euphoric rising

flower painted battlefields

gold in to dross in to gold

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by Gail