Tag: ageing
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Weathering Wordles
Weathering The sky is thin. Trim. Buff colour, and spilling down in kidskin soft mist. Summer breezes could only hope to be so soft, so still. To fill winter’s promise with bone china white views, cold as a sharp needle morning. This unknowable day of borrowed speech, crutches for a weathered limp, stand up walking…
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Poetic Bloomings: 4 July
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck White Summers and Black Winters Age has taken the heat out of us. Petals detach, day on day. Aimless as steamboats. Once adrift, we were the sun, bright, a chase of white summer heat. Our…
It's Still Life 