Tag Archives: rocks

Donegal

Posted on January 7, 2020 by

Folding mist, blurred edge of land and sky. Roads twisting, turning, falling, rising,  each curve a poem. Where are you leading me, I asked? Just keep walking came the reply.   Wavelets bright as stars in a night sky flashed … Continue reading →

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A Delirium Of Wildness

Posted on May 1, 2019 by

        In an unruly, extravagant wild, weathered golden rocks crown a precious land. Bluebells burst through scrub, moss and brambles. Nests are built and slept in,  oft times disturbed by approaching footsteps. The occupants rise up in … Continue reading →

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Wind Of Change

Posted on May 13, 2015 by

In this wind, Estuary waves crash like surfers on the sand. What news do they bring from far-away lands (from my notebook – May 13th) I’m sitting on a rock below the Power’s place where tumbled rocks, heaped upon each other, stay … Continue reading →

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Field Notes By The Sea

Posted on February 19, 2015 by

  Listen with the sea, curling over rocks, oyster, laid open with razor, and clusters of pink and bone white shells. Listen with the Gulls, see them swiftly rise and fall, hear their call of freedom over footprints.   Sit upon a warming … Continue reading →

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Third Anniversary

Posted on February 12, 2015 by

4th February 2015 A bright winter sun, cut through with North wind chill. I sit with some discomfort below the wall made from  rocks and stones. The tide is out. I feel it has taken you with it but I … Continue reading →

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Standing Stones

Posted on January 23, 2014 by

  Shhhhh………listen, said the sea. Can you hear the ghosts of war on the tide, carried back and forth from other times, other centuries. Rocks, soaked in sorrow, like tomb-stones littered on the shingle. Who will save our souls, cry the ghosts.

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Listening

Posted on January 19, 2014 by

Will you listen with me, to the gusting breeze dashing over hawthorn bushes. To sea-smacks on the rocks below the cliff. To the hum of engines trawling the mist  like a lost soul.

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