Our first meeting ...

The scent of orange blossom -

Flamenco -

Pine trees above a bright bay - 

Eating  mulberries in a village garden -

I drove the blue car to the seaside town -

Our first meeting - 

March 2023

New songs ...

Two daughters -

Beautiful wings gifted you - 

The blueness of grandsons' eyes - 

They wear summer in their hair -

All those stories -

New songs for you to sing -

March 2023

The memory of a hand holding his collar ...

Bentley rests his head -

In the garden, his nose had mapped out a wonderful new continent - 

Now he dozes -

There's a lost voice somewhere -

The memory of a hand holding his collar - 

That once familiar scent - 

Going far away now, across a deep river - 

March 2023

The shape of your smile ...

There are paintings and books inside the house -

A cherished saxophone -

Sunlight -

From the terrace, a view of the sea -

Blueness beyond salty rooftops -

Behind me -

In the air - 

The shape of your smile - 

April 2023

Awakening ...

The bright sea washes away the dark -

Our apple tree is joyous with blossom -

The long night had stilled my tongue - 

No words came to me -

This was my awakening -

Birds singing in the garden -

The ship waiting in the bay -

Finding a pen once more in my hand -

April 2023

The wave ...

I closed my eyes -

Under my feet were years of prayer -

The choir were singing The Sanctus -

The music was a wave that cast me into heaven -

April 2023

After breakfast ...

Blue bells -

The scent of cut grass -

Sunlight falling on the churchyard -

The fragile shadow of the apple tree -

April 2023

Different shadow ...

Dunlins skittered across the sand -

I remembered the Pilgrims' Path -

The saint's island -

The sea road - 

Julia wearing her blue dress - 

The different shadow I cast then -

April 2023

Yellow dizziness ...

The yellow dizziness of gorse -

Forgetting who I am -

Each moment a golden coin dropped into a deep well -

April 2023

The hours of the night ...

I know all the hours of the night -

The longing for a quiet sea -

To be able to dream on a gentle ship -

April 2023

Gentle light ...

That gentle light -

Late afternoon -

Birdsong in the garden -

Shy dazzle of blossom on the apple tree -

April 2023

Watching Edge of Darkness ...

Black flowers cover a mountainside -

A helicopter is a cruel bird in the sky -

The daughter's ghost -

The father she wanted to be a tree -

The fury of Jedburgh's eye -

Holding up death in both his hands -

March 2023