Tag: poetry

Challenge. First attempt…..

Well here it is Holly……5 days 5 photos and 5 stories.

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YEAR AGAIN….

Another summer
Another day
Sky clear

Birds silenced
By the church bell
Ringing in the sun
Still running liquid honey
Beyond the little trees
….Still no one here.

Gill McGrath©
1)June 24 2015 [words] 2)June 24 2014 [photo taken]

Thank you for the challenge Holly @ https://aheartafire.wordpress.com/2015/06/23/day-four-5-poems-5-days-5-photos-challenge/

I Challenge Laura https://eljaygee.wordpress.com/

The Rules: “Post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo. It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or a short paragraph and each day nominate another blogger for the challenge”

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‘Take your boots’ she said …

Take your boots
…. and walk where
the shadows define the step downhill
which show the way to
the winding river
take a quick glance back
towards  the top of the ridge
(and wave to me)
before you walk
with care
by the water’s edge….
[ GM© June 17]
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Gill McGrath© June 17 2015

(words are more or less what Great Granny said)
[tracing©][color me in©]

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so that was Sunday (not much sun!)

for some today
it was all about finding
a place to sit
in pink
and grey
a bit to eat
and smelling something quite delicious…

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Gill McGrath© diary June 14 Sunday. description.

ps -. any sun caught by camera in any of these shots, is about all the sun there was!

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horizon gone….

…today
sun sleeping
bound
wrapped in a mist
laced in filigree
~
same time
same view
last year
feathers danced just here
against the blue

Gill McGrath©  field edge. June 13.  about. 7.00am

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2 2015 06 13 lady sleeps in lace DSCN0634 jpg sig

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4 2015 06 13 lady sees horizon gone DSCN0638 jpg sig June 13 2015

2014 06 13 feathers floating in the sky jpg sig June 13. 2014. [ 8.30 am]~ last year~ same place in the sky~ we did have thunder storms later!

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color in the wind

Not so long ago we watched through the window as the fences fell over in a storm, one by one, like a pack of cards, all round the property. The high winds today have been pretty much the same, whistling and crashing all day. The fences (restored) are holding up, but it has been a day for tying down the dustbins… and checking other things….

Tiles.
still.fixed
on this slanting roof.
Catkins. horizontal in the wind. hang on
Iris. buds. still looking strong.
One bird. fluffed. hidden. nearly
Two flying things. sailing. having fun
Yellow fields. powdering.the air
Hedges. clipped. behaving…Ah!
The cherry blossom…
petals like snow
flurrying
falling
to the
ground.
..Here
Counting each one. ~ Gill McGrath © May5

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2015 05 05 DSCN3394 GM© cherry blossom fall (all day)
Gill McGrath© May 5. And More wind tomorrow

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