Sky fire

December dawn in crimson
black-etched
spreading colour waves
belling thrush and robin songs into the west
where embers of sun-fire smoulder.

 

 

 

 

Dawn yesterday. I’ve never seen such an intense crimson sky. Deepest in the east, and in the west a mass of orange cloud hung where the sun sank the evening before.

Mist

cloud becomes ground mist
the serpent uncoiling
detached from river stream’s silver scales
eating the green world
swallowing the sun

wild

wild night to be out
blustering warm
and on the hill
the eerie cry of a vixen
carried in the mouth of the wind

gogyohka for flooded ditches

beneath this leaden sky
the water in the ditch
running
forgets to shine
and slides as dull as

Changes

 

a day of early sun
and from a distant tree
the thrush’s song
and everywhere the singing water
running running running

ripple song from bird throat
and ripple sun on water
and grass waving
from silver ditch depths
that yesterday were crisp with frost

winter

winter starts here
in undefined colours damp-smeared
and dipping in and out
of the universal grey-green
the bright piping of undeterred birds

gogyohka for reeds

Inspired by the beautiful photography of this post on Red’s Kingdom blog.

the oneness of the pattern
repetition of design
that sings and weaves
the furred and feathered pelt
of the water

Autumn settling

autumn mowing
the lush new green of first rains
and beneath the trees
russet drifts and
the heavy scent of wild garlic

trod mint rises
dew falls
new frogs leap the ditch water
among tall stalks heron-wary
while the light cools

lizard walls soaking the sun
red-gold in the west
where roses and nasturtiums climb
in the woodpile
the wrens stake their claim

Crepuscule

crépuscule
et le vent est couleur de la terre
argile rouge chaude et molle
sa voix la complainte
des feuilles abandonnées

dusk
and the wind is earth colour
red-clay hot and boneless
its voice the lament
of abandoned leaves

Last morning of the lighter half of the year

green and blue
through the mist
merging ephemera
with tree pillars
holding up the sky