high seas

Gold cherry

By Di_Hard

Sat, 01 Oct 2022
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18 comments
 

leaf shoals race on grey twig currents

as west winds lace rushing rip tides through

fast colours, with quick air

rinse out sluggish thoughts

so free, mind rides sun-touched

beech trees at this woods' last bastion

before moors' sky-bared sloughs and hills

where shadow fate's cast by white clouds

on glint-dancing reeds

 

 

photo is mine, from here :

https://skeochand.wordpress.com/

Certificate U
Poem

Comments

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Another lovely intense little poem, feeling the rushing wind brushing your face! My father loved standing on the promenade in West Wales in a gale saying it was 'blowing the cobwebs from his head' after so much deskwork in London! I loved the glint-dancing reeds too.

Is that your own website for your own photos. I love taking closeups of lichen, moss, dead leaves etc on the grourd. Capturing them in a frame like that.

Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou so much, Rhiannon :0) And for visiting the website too - have not at all got the hang of close ups! I love the photos you put on your poems. And thankyou for telling me about your Dad on the beach, he must have loved coming backto the wide freshness

 

Submitted by celticman on

your words are dancing, even prancing.  

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou for very much reading and commenting CM And for the cherries. Prancing is not good, is it? 

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

'glint dancing reeds' - some wonderful imagery in this Di. you have actually made me wish for a wonderful blowy day (even though I'm resisting Autumn with all my heart)  I think prancing is meant in a good way. Well deserved cherry!

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou :0) I bet Jenny will win you over one day :0)

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

What a captivating scene for the season you've described in this poem Di. It was so refreshing to read. It certainly rinsed out any sluggish thoughts I've had, and now I'm desperate to get out and feel the wind on my face.

Thank you for sharing.

Jenny.

P.S. I love your nature photos, they're very special. Funnily enough I've been taking photos while out on walks in the woods with my camera, but have no idea how to upload onto computer. Will have to wait for my son to visit, hopefully he'll be able to do it for me.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Oh Jenny, I do hope you get out soon and write more wonderful Autumn poems!

Thankyou so much for looking at the website, I am hoping to photo the woods over a whole year so you can see all the colours changing? and if enough people visit the website perhaps the woods' owner will take the tree cutting threat more seriously and put up a fence. That is my cunning plan :0)

I was lucky my partner set up the Wordpress site for me. And he and my son had to keep showing me over and over how to get stuff from my camera onto the computer, but if you write down the stages, that helps a bit? And once it is a path in your mind, you can do it without thjinking. And sometimes Google can help - I found out how to make stuff small to go on ABC from googling it. I still haven't worked out how to focus my camera (or at least focus on what I want it to, rather than what it thinks I want it to). And the Wordpress site I have is free, but I think (not sure) that if you pay for one, you get advice with that? I don't understand all the possibilities with it at all, just didn't want to keep clogging up people's facebook, who kindly friended me, with my obsession with trees, but Facebook and Instagram are free and much simpler. Whatever you choose YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!!! And I really look forward to seeing all your photos :0)

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

This vivid poem is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day!

Please share/retweet if you enjoyed it as much as I did

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou!!!!!! You have made my week :0)

 

Submitted by Penny4athought on

I found this gem today and loved it. Your vision of these sentinels of nature is so well defined. I read Jenny's comments and agree with her; I too hope the wooded area you visit can beprotected and  saved.

Your poem is lovely and well desering of the POD.smiley 

Penny4athought

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou so much Penny, you are very kind! Much appreciated

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

A beautiful and rich tribute to the first days of autumn. I really enjoyed the comparison with the sea, it's so clever, the rolling movement of the leaves and twigs in the wind is indeed like a shoal of fish. It's not quite fresh enough yet to rinse away my own sluggish thoughts. Here's to cooler days and thank you for this wonderful poem.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

I'm really glad you found that, Jane, it was  SO BEAUTIFUL! Thankyou very much for letting me know, and I hope fresh days come for you soon

 

Submitted by marandina on

"... beech trees at this woods' last bastion.."

 

Beautifully articulate and wonderful imagery. Congrats on the well deserved pick, Di. Paul :) 

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou, Paul, that's really kind of you :0) Am very glad if you liked it

 

Submitted by jeand on

HI Di

 

Lovely little poem, full of beautiful imagery.

Jean Day

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou so much Jean, that's very kind of you to read and comment, and I hope you are having a good day