I could still hear the music of a gentle song ...

The tree held up blossoms to the early evening sky - 

Long shadows were cast upon the precious earth - 

I could still hear the music of a gentle song - 

17.37

Saturday 14 April 2018

Warblington 

Our tears were pearls ...

Sandra read the ageless words - 

Gentle pallbearers waited - 

A bird sang - 

Our tears were pearls - 

Each one a memory - 

12.00

Friday 13 April 2018

Warblington

Havant 

Hampshire 

Each sister will bring her a white rose ...

In a few moments I'll be driving to the Premier Inn - 

Tomorrow Sandra will say Love is patient, love is kind - 

My mum will lie in her willow bed - 

Each sister will bring her a white rose - 

14.30

Thursday 12 April 2018

The Old School House

East Stoke

Dorset 

They left their words upon the air like feathers -

I saw him in my dream last night - 

There he was - 

I knew in my dream that he was dead - 

I saw him again in his final bed - 

Yet in my dream the dead walked with the living - 

I heard their voices - 

Their hands touched mine - 

They left their words upon the air like feathers -

Tuesday 10 April 2018

The Old School House 

East Stoke

Dorset 

Birthday gifts ...

These paintings were my birthday gifts - 

This was my dance - 

This was my wild garden - 

This burning sun warms my house - 

I swim in this turquoise sea - 

A boy plays a lyre under my olive trees - 

This is my bed of asphodels - 

These bright fish were caught for me - 

11.48

Tuesday 10 April 2018

Charmed lives in Greece, Ghika, Craxton, Leigh-Fermor

British Museum 

The chapel on the hill ...

I took my prayer to the chapel on the hill - 

Soft rain fell upon the quiet land - 

Cattle grazed in watery fields - 

A leafless tree joined earth to heaven - 

Violets were a tender purple - 

Wood smoke scented the air in the village - 

The sea was veiled in mist - 

An egret flew above a swift flowing stream - 

I placed my prayer upon a shelf of gentle stone - 

I left a white shell upon the folded paper - 

Stay with me, your special boy I'd written - 

Through the ancient doorway my life waited for me - 

10,46

Monday 9 April 2018

St Catherine's Chapel

Abbotsbury 

The hidden house ...

We saw the deer in the garden of the hidden house - 

This was their hour - 

They cast their silence upon the lawn - 

Our tongues were stilled - 

No words came - 

The birds sang their songs - 

The white tree touched the gentle stone - 

March 

2018

Highwood 

Dorset