Very good, Arthur. Triptych is a supe ridea.
Appropriate for a card, A4 triptych?
After this weekend the light starts to come back!
bw
SallyE
on 20/12/03 10:48 am, Arthur Seeley at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Solstice triptych
>
> Left panel
>
> Reeds divide the wind
> beside the shining mere.
> Under a winter moon
> sided sleet re-shapes the moor.
> Even as the sky wheels,
> the earth turns again,
> begins the hurtle into spring.
>
>
>
> centre
>
> Here at the year's turning, the darkest time,
> earth stunned with cold,
> birds fall unheeded in the night,
> the fountain's tongues are stilled
> and snow drifts into corners of the yard,
>
> I seem now at the end
> to which I've always moved.
>
> I look back across
> the bleak Atlantic reaches of my life
> to remember the desolations of before
> but see only the sunlit miles
> of snow filled shires lie fulgent
> in the long low winter light.
>
>
> right
>
> Crystals on my window.
> Honey for breakfast,
> toast crisp and brown,
> pooled with butter;
> from my spoon
> the remembered scents
> of a hidden summer spin.
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