Keyhole aperture.
Daytide illumination.
Enlightenment found.

16th September 2015

~ Flowers of Sunshine ~

Flowers of sunshine,
playing peek-a-boo with Sol.
Wind sings his soft song.

13th September 2015

~ Aberteifi Fall ~

Cardigan maple.

Red leaves crunching underfoot.

Aberteifi Fall.

12th September 2015

~ Seeds Remain ~

Welsh Poppy glowing.
A Springtime hope of Summer.
Now just seeds remain.

5th September 2015

~ Hello September ~

Hello September.
Indian Summer request.
Quota of rain...met.

1st September 2015

~ Master of Patience ~

Garden Arachnoid,
silk weaver of entrapment;
master of patience.

31st August 2015

~ Our Boy ~

Our Boy goes abroad.
It is good, but it feels strange.
Love is, letting go.

30th August 2015

~ Wavelets ~

The sea, calm and blue.
A slow tempo tunefulness.
Wavelets on the sand.

29th August 2015

~ Lunar Dreams ~

As I lay my head,
my pillow bathed in moonlight,
lunar dreams await.

28th August 2015

~ End of Summer ~

The indoor rainbows are back in the room!
The sun has lowered in the sky.

An Autumn crispness
heralds the end of Summer.
A bridge to Winter.

27th August 2015 

~ Early Morning Bees ~

Early morning bees
pollinating scarlet blooms;
runner beans for tea.

7th August 2015

~ Tree Friends ~

Sycamore branches
reach and clasp into a ring.
Connected tree friends.

25th August 2015

~ Ramsey's Skirts ~

two hearts in the sky
one, blue and white one, dark grey.

In the wake of rain,
a kind window of sunshine
silvers Ramsey's skirts.

23rd August 2015

~ Portal ~

Portal to your wild....
close your eyes and dig for dreams.
Take your soul and fly.

23rd August 2015

~ Monochrome Water ~

Monochrome water.
Pebbles on a distant shore.
Reflections combine.

20th August 2015

~ Halcyon Summer ~

Hazy memories.
Crushed-meadowsweet-perfumed air.
Halcyon summer.

20th August 2015

~ Fy Nghynefin ~

This place.
These stones.
This river.
These trees.
They flow in my blood.
They live in my bones.
They have been a part of me for half a century.
They are my oldest teachers, my first friends.
They are with me
:
:
always.

19th August 2015

~ No Words ~

Just sit and enjoy.
Sometimes, that is the poem.
When no words are found.

18th August 2015

~ Simple Abundance ~

Late summer picnic.

Geese fly silently westward.

Simple abundance.

16th August 2015

~ Blue Moon ~

Blue Moon on my mind, 

watching as I lay my head. 

Lapis dreams tonight. 

31st July, 2015

~ I Hear the Sea ~

Through a small window
in a hedge of tall Ash trees, 
a moth flies to the moon; 
and in the still and silent night, 
with a hint of autumn air, 
I hear the sea.

written by moonlight 2.30am BST 27th July 2013

~ A Moon Symphony ~

Sad

men

use

elaborate

apparatus

to

incubate

a moon symphony

in

white.

July,2013

~ Emerald Green Waves ~

Emerald green waves

backlit by Equinox sun.

Autumn strokes my face.

21st September 2007

~ Backgammon Sand ~

Gentle waves greet sandy shore with soft kisses.

Golden sun plays peek~a~boo from behind lilac coloured clouds.

Seagull mews its mournful cry.

I walk on backgammon sand.

23rd January 2003

Newgale Beach

~ Purple Umbrella ~

Purple umbrella

abandoned in green bushes,

waiting for the rain.

28th June 2013

~Dance of the Butterflies~

Brown butterflies dance,

in the garden of secrets,

on a blue~skied day.

 25th June 2013

~ Spring ~

The blackthorn is 

beginning to bloom,

and the hawthorn is 

showing the tenderest 

of new green, as its buds 

slowly give birth to its 

Spring foliage.

::

::

The collared doves send coded messages

of coo~ing love to one another,

and Sol climbs higher

and burns brighter

every day.

18th March 2013

~ The Rooks Are Gathering ~

The Rooks are gathering

at Pelcomb Bridge;

making repairs to 

their grand estate

of twigs in the treetops; 

and heralding Spring

in a raucous chorus
of Rookery racket

::

::

and in the cold East wind

a Red Kite flies
::
High.

12th March 2013

~ Contrail Scars ~

 Early~morning eyes 

see blue skies with contrail scars.

Progress breaks my heart.

12th February 2013

~ Smiling Moon ~

I gaze at the smiling moon;

a silver crescent

in a Lapis sky.

14th January 2013

~ Mercury Falling ~

photo by Mark Lee

Silver horizon

Alchemy of sea and Sky

Mercury falling...

11th April 2008

~ Birds of the Stars ~

Sky

::

early~pale~blue.

Starlings

::

birds that fly with stars 

on their wings;

swooping in for the day,

chattering and singing

and making me smile.

 9th January 2013

~ Imbolc ~

Each dawn earlier.

Light returns to stretch the day

and to reel in night.

2nd February 2013

~ Assemblage Starlight ~

Photo by Mark Lee

Assemblage starlight.

Nature congregating.

Gravitational sidestep.

2nd July 2008

~ Closed Into A Circle ~

Confuse centre of expansion;

accurately envisaged,

stretching, swelling, 

surprising curvature,

distortion,

::

space.

Sense bend in manner;

the concept of irrelevant buttons,

closed into a circle.

30th June 2008

~ The Sea ~

  

I sit and watch your power, your beauty,

your wildness, your might.

You have strength, independence, freedom.

No one tames you, manipulates you; 

your will is your own.

You work with the wind and the moon,

You love the way they make you move.

Watching you lifts me high,

makes me sing;

and we have a common tide 

you and I,

expanding and contracting,

inhaling and exhaling;

the very motion of 

life.

11th February 2002

~ Newgale ~

Black clouds to my left.

It is raining out at sea.

Now it rains on me.

2nd January 2003

~ Three Beautiful Pearls ~

Photo by Mark Lee

Haiku 1

Theophilus chain:
Cyrillus, Theophilus
and Catharina

Haiku 2

Seven~day old moon
Shows south Theophilus chain,
three beautiful pearls.

13th July 2005

~ The Storm ~

A thunderstorm blows itself 

into our sky;

all flashy, and showy and loud,

 backed by wild wind and rain torrents.

We turn out all lights

and turn off all noise,

and stand at the window

to watch its performance.

I give a startled 'oh' 

as I get blinded by each flash,

but thrill at the unfettered 

power of this Full Moon storm.

26th January 2013

~ Worms ~

A blackbird in a cemetry

swaggers on a gravestone

surveying his necropolis territory,

 though heedless of its yard of bones,

- the only link - worms.

25th January 2013

~ An Owl Hoots a Lonely Call ~

 

Jupiter and Selene 

slow~dance across 

the evening sky,

but it is Cassiopeia who

captures me tonight,

with her 'W' of woe...

and I hear the sea's tempest

and an owl hoots

a lonely call.

24th January 2013

~ Inhaling~Exhaling Sea ~

 Trees sculpted in sand.

 Inhaling~exhaling sea

A master carver.

23rd January 2013

~ A Pre~Dusk Quick Step ~

Bright snow~light through glass.

A silver shine frisking along,

a pre~dusk quick step.

21st January 2013

~ Cwm Cerwyn ~

Cwm Cerwyn beckons ~

an escape to play in

vermillion drifts

and down icy slopes

as white winter

occults the green.

2oth January 2013

~ Haiku in Welsh ~

Mae hi'n oer heddiw.

Eira gwyn ar y mynydd.

Amser cynnau'r tân

19th Ionawr, 2013

It is cold today.

White snow over the mountain.

Time to light the fire.

~ As I Gently Drift to Sleep ~

The fire is warm,

though fading as the night ages.

Ash and willow burn,

red embers dimly glowing

as I gently drift to sleep.

Waka poetry

17th January, 2013

~ Water Music ~

Light water music

as rain drops into puddles,

I hum a new tune.

17th January 2013

~ A Storytelling of Crows ~

The wind has stilled and

the birds cheer in a chorus

of peace, as a dove coos.

A hazy, filtered sun dips westward

behind the branches of Ash trees,

which stretch upward into a creamy

blue sky;
::
::
and crows gather in a story.

::

::

::

and I sit....and breath.

 15th January, 2013

~ A Gateway to Light ~

and the trees grow through
and show a gateway to light,
woven in magic.

January 11, 2013