High in the sky today
That sky alone today, without a cloud, shining
in all those shades, not always easy to achieve
painter, palette, canvas
lightest along the line, horizon
as it rises from the earth
through indigo and violet, over head
luminous and lovely, mesmerising
surely a piece of poetry, singing
high in the sky today.
18th September 2020, Hounoux
As a Beauty, fading
It’s stilled here, silence hissing
the landscape a painting laid out
lovely in curves and curls
langourous as a Beauty, fading
summer’s passion spent
even the clouds transfixed, and trees
barely a breath
no creature crawls.
Just me to contemplate
time and place, aeons, space
wide and wonderful
a tapestry to mesmerise
enchantment, hypnotising.
13th September 2020, Hounoux.
