⏯𝔪𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔷𝔦

“Earth is just unsettling
Her first faint scents.
My shadow, soft-edged,
On drying, pale sand, among baby nettles,
Where floodwater whorled and sowed it.”
Ted Hughes (1983)
#photography #sand #ripples #patterns #PotD #poetry #TedHuges #sea #tides #art #NatureArt #ebb #flow

“Churches in the Celtic west
Cleared of chalice and candlesticks,
Chant and saga
In red blood scrawled…”
George Mackay Brown (1987)
#photography #CelticCross #StColumba #Columba'sBirthplace #PotD #Gartan #Donegal #Colmcille #ChurchHill #Christianity #521AD #poetry #GeorgeMackayBrown

“Beautiful, candid lovers,
Burnt out of our earthly covers,
We might have nestled like plovers
In the fields of eternity.”
D H Lawrence (1916)
#photography #PotD #BirdPhotography #plover #RingedPlover #shore #beach #camouflage #poetry #DHLawrence #sand

“In the west the gold whale sank in welters of blood.
We killed that ghost each sunset.
At dawn our hands were red and empty.
Now the Dove faltered out of the blind fist.”
George Mackay Brown (1971)
#photography #sunset #seascape #PotD #poem #GeorgeMackayBrown #reflection #sea #golden #beauty

“white clouds and blue sky mount through us into
a strange protective canopy, and ground
of some sort rushes up to meet our feet
and scatters red and brown to far horizons
now the horizons of our sight. “
Edwin Morgan (1977)
#Photography #PotD #Scotland #Skye #poetry #EdwinMorgan #landscape

“I have heard trees talking, long after the sun has gone down:
Imagine what would it be like to dance close together
In this land of water and knowledge . . .
To drink deep what is undrinkable”
Joy Harjo (2015)
#photography #tree #trunk #mouth #wood #poetry #JoyHarjo #NaturePhotography #PotD

“Summer and winter the long years have flown
Since you looked your last for ever on the hills of Tyrone;
On the vales of Tyrconnell, on the faces strained that night
To watch you, Hugh and Rory, over waves in your flight.”
Ethna Carbery (1902)
#photography #Rathmullan #Donegal #PotD #sculpture

“The trees are closer, thicker.
I must make my way with no shelter but theirs.
This is an impossible forest, but I am in it.”
Edwin Morgan (1977)
#photography #DarkHedges #Ballymoney #CountyAntrim #Ireland #trees #beech #tangle #poetry #EdwinMorgan #PotD #forest #trunks #maze

“See, the clouds are strolling along towards the sunset
in no hurry, almost unemployed,
except for the times when they are heavy with rain.”
Iain Crichton Smith (1961)
#photography #sunset #cliffs #silhouette #PotD #reflection #seascape #Ireland #red #golden #clouds #poetry #IainCrichtonSmith

“In a cul-de-sac, a strange boy threw a stone.
I crawled through a hedge into long grass
at the edge of a small wood, lonely and thrilled.
The green silence gulped once and swallowed me whole.”
Carol Ann Duffy (1977)
#photography #Glencoe #Torren #Hagrid'sHut #poetry #CarolAnnDuffy #PotD

“It must be summer — you’re wearing
your black gorget
above your sulphury shirt front.
You dip and dip and go on dipping
your tail, then shuttlecock up
(death of a fly)”
Norman Maccaig (1965)
#photography #GreyWagtail #BirdPhotography #PotD #GrayWagtail #chick #feeding #fledgling

“Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy
leaves. Let me walk down the highway with my brother
in peace. Let me die in my footsteps
Before I go down under the ground.”
Bob Dylan (1962)
#photography #Glencoe #trees #grass #lyrics #BobDylan #PotD #grassy #knoll #Scotland #glen #light

“Now the heron grieves in the weeded verge. Through windows
Of dusk and water I see the tilting whispering
Heron, mirrored, go”
Dylan Thomas (1949)
#photography #heron #BirdPhotography #poetry #DylanThomas #shoreline #mirror #pool #sea #PotD

“The hour-glass whispers to the lion’s roar,
The clock-towers tell the gardens day and night
How many errors Time has patience for,
How wrong they are in being always right.”
W H Auden (1939)
#photography #church #Culross #poem #WHAuden #ClockTower #PotD #ThomasCochrane #statue #architecture

“The most alluring clouds that mount the sky
Owe to a troubled element their forms,
Their hues to sunset. If with raptured eye
We watch their splendor, shall we covet storms”
William Wordsworth (1842)
#photography #sunset #PotD #skyline #silhouette #poetry #Wordsworth #pink #gold #clouds

“they’ve only just arrived
an arrow-true, close-flocked, ocean-crossing skein”
Kathleen Jamie (2014)
#photography #geese #skein #BirdPhotography #migration #BlueSky #sky #ClearSky #poetry #KathleenJamie #PotD

“Sally go round the sun!
Sally go round the moon!
Sally go round the chimney-pots
On Sunday afternoon!”
Nursery Rhyme (19c)
#photography #chimney #ChimneyPots #skyline #sky #NurseryRhyme #SallyGoRound #silhouette #PotD

“Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the north,
The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth ;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.”
Robert Burns (1789)
#photography #Glencoe #Scotland #Highlands #poetry #Burns #PotD #RiverCoe #mountains #clouds

Illuminating article. How does the fall of Ukraine and Russia's victory fit with this refocussing on China. Are the Europeans not incapable of managing this aspect?

“And the skeletons clash in the wind
like a wash of old clothes.
The horizon chases its tail
over and over.”
Iain Crichton Smith (1956)
#photography #skeleton #circle #opening #hanging #PotD #poetry #poem #IainCrichtonSmith #zoology #museum #GrantMuseumOfZoology #gallery

“It takes about eighteen months for one
To ripen into a skeleton,
To be washed, folded, packed in a small
Niche hollowed out of the cemetery wall.”
W H Auden (1956)
#photography #skeletons #books #gallery #PotD #poem #WHAuden #Museum #zoology #Grant #UCL #London #pattern

“Strange
indeed how love in other
ways so particular
will pick a corner
in that charnel-house
tidy it and coil up there, perhaps
even fall asleep – her face
turned to the wall!”
China Achebe (1971)
#photography #Spitalfields #CharnelHouse #sculpture #poem #Achebe #BishopsSquare #London

“But who is the demolition man,
cutting a swath through broken landscapes,
bringing down the past and singing with it?
Who is the necessary destroyer?”
Edwin Morgan (1978)
#photography #cranes #skyline #jibs #poem #EdwinMorgan #PotD #industrial #city #cityscape #silhouette #construction

“I’ve heard an Organ talk, sometimes
In a Cathedral Aisle,
And understood no word it said—
Yet held my breath, the while”
Emily Dickinson (1861)
#photography #chandelier #organ #ChristChurch #Spitalfields #London #Church #RichardBridge #poem #EmilyDickinson #PotD #Hawksmoor

“What do you see in our eyes
At the shrieking iron and flame
Hurled through still heavens?”
Isaac Rosenberg (1917)
#photography #Scintilla #RebeccaHind #ChristChurch #Spitalfields #London #poem #Rosenberg #cross #lightning #art #mirror #reflection #PotD

“Behold a woman!
She looks out from her quaker cap, her face is clearer and more beautiful
than the sky.”
Walt Whitman (1860)
#photography #Quaker #MeetingHouse #Brigflatts #Sedbergh #light #reflection #PotD #poem #WaltWhitman

A very thoughtful article - makes total sense - thanks for the insights.

“The skyline is half bristling with cranes,
half slashed with ruins and gap-sites.
The rain browns the new concrete,
the young trees shiver, but make it.”
Edwin Morgan (1978)
#photograph #cranes #London #skyline #poem #EdwinMorgan #PotD #construction #silhouette #jib #industrial

“One day you look and see one of them
eyeless, silent, a zigzag sky showing
through the knocked-out clockwork, after a riot,
a peace-march time bomb, or a precise act
of nature in a night of lightnings.”
A K Ramanujan (1971)
#photography #clock #tower #poem #Ramanujan #BritishLibrary #PotD

“Passion or conquest, wander where they will,
Attend upon them still.
But now they drift on the still water,
Mysterious, beautiful;”
W B Yeats (1917)
#photography #swans #golden #water #poem #WBYeats #PotD #reflection #lake #BirdPhotography #nature