Journey of Words

Tag: Light

  • on flight

    starlings stir up dusksky’s grey palette liquifiedfish out of water ~ n.b. A photograph cannot capture the wonder of starlings numbering hundreds or thousands flying in a free-wheeling flock, a mumuration. Yesterday, late afternoon, Great Yarmouth; the magic of flight, the joy of collective effort, the beauty of life. ~ CLP 09/01/2022 →

  • on light

    precious metaltake me to bathe in sunshineswim in heaven’s blue n.b. This is not Australia, a land of beautiful light; this is England, where such brilliance is a gift. ~ CLP 09/01/2022 →

  • on light

    compared with the Suneverything becomes grey-scalewithout perspective ~ n.b. It has been a challenging few days, putting fingers to the keyboard as impossible as joining like poles of two magnets. The ‘must post’ became ‘can’t post’. Now, a shift. Was it the sunlight? Was it the experience of movement in daytime? Was it enjoying catching →

  • on time

    sooner and lateredges of day stretch apartcast light into gloom ~ n.b. The shift is noticeable, not just the steadily extending day, but the intensity of light seems to increase as the Sun’s daily arc moves toward the centre of the northern sky’s canopy. CLP 07/01/2022 →

  • on time

    see how fast they fallsand grains tumble from the glass leaving only light ~ n.b. Composed of stardust, we are held here for long as we are remembered, as complete and incomplete as others can recall. We become not what we think of ourselves, but what others think of us. CLP 31/12/2021 →

  • on birdsong

    frost feathers windscreenssharp lunarian lightblackbird’s confusion ~ n.b. City living can be exhausting, not least when an excess of light blurs night with day. Birdsong can be heard at all hours, under a clear sky when a full moon rises. ~ CLP 22/12/2021 →

  • on darkness

    this is the limitsolar orbit continueswe move toward light ~ n.b. Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel it! Something to celebrate brothers and sisters. n.b. This deal does not apply to dwellers in the southern hemisphere. ~ CLP 21/12/2021 →

  • in fog

    Cromer, white rainbowno gold found at either endice lies at its heart ~ n.b. A weather phenomenon not commonly seen, hung above Cromer pier yesterday. Quite beautiful, but no surprise in a country steadily being drained of all colour by a mercenary and self-serving government. ~ CLP 18/12/2021 →

  • on light

    cloth of silver mistobscures harsh realitydust-choked, lifeless, stone ~ CLP 16/12/2021 →

  • on light

    lilac tinge of eveningconclusion of autumn’s daysfloodlights’ siren call ~ CLP 15/12/2022 →