Image-Storm.
Struggle for a bolt
hole,
Through the torrent and
the storm.
Gloomy, but dry
A tunnel is attained,
Turn back to glance
At holocaustic rain.
Slide back down the
wall
To crouch against it
all.
Light a damp packet
cigarette,
Catch a moment to
glance around
Sitting in the urchins'
set
Where the lost are
never found.
A rainbow of umbrellas
Protects the dead
paving.
The gutter reek of
London,
Absent from this place,
Where all the harm is
undone,
Some sanctuary space.
Silent choir of dead
angels,
Smile at futile
charity.
The image-storm is set
to last,
So brace yourself
against the night,
Turn your collar up
against the blast,
And slip away to seek
the light.
Some of tonight's images will be a "bit fuzzy"...as the one above is... It wasn't late when I went to one of my favourite places, but the light was a bit hit and miss, and I wanted to push the camera and see what 12800 ISO could do.... instead of relying on the Auto ISO thing....
Suffice to say it managed, but there's so much noise when I didn't need it...and then, when I put it back on Auto, the results were an ISO of 200, or even 50, which was bonkers when I needed to milk the dim light for what I could possibly have go tout of it, but hey, I'm learning, trying, failing, learning, and I mean in photography really..... Not real life or anything..
Hmmm.
Now this one was also at the highest ISO the camera can manage, and yet it's turned out not too bad...it was a lot gloomier there than this picture shows. 2e and I (and Gwyn, but she was away exercising rabbits....) weren't gloomy, it was just the light.
Cobs.
Every distant corner of
this island,
When visited has been
lightened by me
To the mass of a stone,
or cob, or pebble,
Red striped, blue spot,
green and hazy gold,
Chalk white, grey
marbled, mottled pinks and then,
To return to my room,
to sit on the mantle,
For a year or more, and
to remove again,
To the pool, with
darkened depths,
For the course of fate
and land,
Entwined with axes to
my universe,
And mental threads to
futures and just
Another tiny
archaeological puzzle, for geologists.
I know farmers rely on them for big jobs, and in various concentrations.....I also am well aware of the hype and hysteria there has been over their after effects, and that the EU is pretty much committed to banning them, after tightening up, again and again their sales, and licences and so on...
I am not going to get controversial here, but the first time I ever bought a 5 litre tub, the chap I bought it off was reknowned for drinking it, to prove it wasn't toxic....
I can't recall his full name, as I didn't buy any more off him, but I think his surname was "Spence".... He died a few years back at a fairly ripe old age....I can't comment on his state of mind though, which is relevant as there are allegations of a causal link with Altzheimers's Disease, and latterly cancers of various hues.....
Still, he drove a nice car......
The field above was "Glyfossed". I think you can tell which one I mean.....
This one.
I present that without comment, or judgement rather. These chicks seemed alright to me, but I'm not a "birder", so what would I know?
As soon as mother realised I was there she sauntered off away from them, and as soon as she did so, they vanished.....as in, they dropped down to the ground and became as stones...... fascinating to see, but frustrating when I thought I'd got a better position to take more pictures.....!
Burnt Earth
The burnt earth that
slips from the foot,
The drizzled hour in
this grave of trees,
And innocent tyre
tracks shout your name.
The discarded stone
circle with hints of modernism,
Scorched black and
flaky edged altar stone,
Desecrated by the Roman
Catholic sandalled steps,
And abandoned by newly
educated free-men.
Here the ancient is at
your finger tips,
Just beyond instant
response touch taste,
And the strength of the
is/it flows from the ground.
The steps you felt
yourself guided to take,
Or maybe the hidden
scene shifting guardians,
Or something still less
paranoid calls you now.
Here we stand, in this
dream scarred once-grove,
With sacred moments of
sheer swimming love,
And hand in hand we
silently soak and our clothes
Catch the smell of
recent wood fires.
The burnt stone
under-hand blacks your skin,
And sadly we move
through and deeper into
Our new found reborn
living loving and the sun.
Soft drinks carton
pirouettes a mockery play for us,
And I have you lightly
on my silver thread.
A (chain-) harrowing experience all round......
So that's how to transport them, after all these years I never knew..........