Journey of Words

Tag: Weather

  • On the Road I

    Road becomes mud track In grip of violent storm Marks turn in summer ~ CLP 26/07/2020 →

  • Angels

    At last they are here! Welcome them with open arms. Your dreams become you ~ CLP 13/07/2020 →

  • On Heaven

    Celestial blue Peopled by angelic host Pale apparitions ~ CLP 13/07/2020 →

  • Rookworms

    Clouds of oily birds Floated down from the pine clump Shadowed the low field ~ Cows and calves bemused At pasture blackened with crows Jackdaws and bleak rooks ~ Settled frozen still Hundreds came and stood alert For movement of soil ~ The gloomy flock stirred Disturbed by wind-blown phantom Hung on breaths of wind →

  • Day 44

    The sunlight of recent weeks has been a boon, but these darker days are more in tune with the current mood. Are they reflective of it, or the cause of the recent shift in humour? I realise that the lowering clouds, the loss of the greater space beyond, is matched by the thickening of leaves →

  • Day 43

    Light levels are lowered by the thick cloud cover. All the bright colours of spring flowers are needed now to attract pollen carriers. The warmth of the past week coaxed a greater variety of bees outside. They are most welcome. This morning along the coast road the marshes are witness to a fierce exchange between →

  • Day 42

    The road is just visible ahead. There is light in the sky topping off the highest clouds. The air is damp. There are puddles. There are no street lights here. It is dark enough for the birds to have stopped flying and to have ceased singing.  The main sounds are a few spots of rain on →

  • Day 37

    I am out after supper. The light is fading earlier than previous evenings because of the spreading high-cloud cover. Venus is high in the west. Everything is calmer. The wind dropping, the sea smoother, the air warmer. Birds have settled into their pairs. Nests are built. A swan sits on a massive mesh of reeds; →

  • Day 35

    Cycling west along the coast road to the next village this morning took about half the time of any previous trip. The east wind pushed me along as I pedalled furiously to take full advantage. It was thrilling to travel so fast without wind rushing in my ears, without battling to make progress. It reminded →

  • Day 32

    Today is overcast and hence a little warmer. The benefit of cloud cover is tempered by rain in the air, but when the rain becomes noticeable it is a pleasure to feel it on the face. This is April, there should be showers! Here in the east, close to a north-facing coast, there is no →