Showing posts with label sea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sea. Show all posts

Monday, April 2, 2012

The Weather Today

The Weather Today

It was clear this morning.
Crisp and clear.
Not strange at all,
for here.

Hills
standing out
in front of the mountains,
their crags and valleys
picked out in shadow
in the morning light.
Do we accept the shadow
or choose to ignore it
and focus 
only
on the light?

I went a different way
this morning.
Maybe it was the weather,
or the light.
I saw the sea
blue and calm,
unrippled,
waiting?
A portent?

Then in the early evening
I pointed out the same scene I had 
viewed this morning.
The light was vivid.
The forest,
the rock,
the colours.
Stunning.

A meteorite,
green
passed overhead
with a light 
of it's own.
Unseen by me 
but noticed nonetheless.

On such a light filled
and interesting
weather
day.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Day 4/100

I got myself up early this morning to write.
I have more than enough stuff pouring onto the pages of my notebook.
It is the trying to organise and rewrite and refine (Well, well another poem about diamonds just popped into my brain. (Look out for it in days to come.)) that takes me time. TIME!!!!

A funeral to attend today. A tangi, so tragic and so sad. What a lovely family to suffer such a loss. That is why death was featuring in the poem yesterday.

Today I have a poem I wrote 4 months ago. That was my first. I've always loved words. Someone challenged me then to write one. This week I am challenged to write more and publish them...

"Share and be damned" the messenger said...

Shroud
Cruising along on the bay,
eyes on a distant mark.
My ship under full sail.
A storm blows up aft, unseen.
Grey cloud decends,
A shroud enfolds me.

The wind whips through
the rigging.
Furling the sails
Waves crash about,
their peaks and troughs an attack.
I am overwhelmed
take cover
avoid the sting of salt spray

I run for shelter
seeking calm
cocoon myself
peek out
check for safety
keeping a weather eye.

Andrew Thompson
15/4/10
Ligar Bay