Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ambience, art, Beulah, green, june, landscape photography, light, midsummer, Poetry, silence, twilight, Wales, woods on June 27, 2017| Leave a Comment »
MIDSUMMER LIGHT
The woods are settled now and full.
Their heavy green skirts spread cool
And pleated in each valley’s green lap.
Nest and nested, crowned with shade,
They glow of a midsummer evening
Into a slow, white bow of twilight
Patterned with bats and owls,
A stretched and quiet expanse,
The tropic and declination of invisible motion,
A singular silvered attendance upon silence.
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged a blur of betony, afternoon, Beulah, early morning, Irfon Valley, landscape, pastoral, photography, Poetry, Powys, summer, Wales on July 24, 2015| Leave a Comment »
TWO BY BEULAH
1
A break in the cloud:
A mouth of light
Drifts slowly over Beulah.
Dawn cannot be long.
Bats flicker vision,
A fluttering heartbeat.
Warm air, rain-wet
And rose-heavy.
2
The road sways soft
Down to Beulah.
Drowsy with valerian,
Hammocked easy
On sweet drift meadowsweet.
Awake the spired, serry willowherb,
And betony: scatter of exclamation.
We float light upon
Our own bright shadows.
The afternoon sun
And cloud valleys singing.
The road down to Beulah
Under the mountain.
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simonhlilly 