Inspiral Daze

Bare blue beginnings;

vibrant flashes of promise

cruelly out of reach.

Silent Valentines

watch the tide drift idly in.

No treasure today.

A soft focus world

stretches to infinity.

Will it ever end?

Snowflakes in my hair,

I blend into the landscape.

Here by choice, not roots.

Gilded New Year’s Day

melds molten-like into dusk.

Promises glow on.

Woken by silence:

A Dickensian morning

revealed by slow dawn.

Temperatures plummet:

Silent frosts change landscapes and

form barbed wire cobwebs.

Stress City’s landscape:

A blur of abstract colours,

sense eclipsed by speed.

First breath of winter

caresses morning landscape

with icy silence.

Wood smoke and cockerels

mingle languidly at dawn,

low mists undisturbed.