Winter Sky
Jan 21 26
Blog by Lynne Pearl
A few days later, we have had snow every day for three days straight but it melts by the afternoon most of it. But the light is magnificent and the moon in the clear night sky is full and very bright.
Today the sea is very still, unutterably still as if it had forgotten how to move or make waves or have tides. It is a blue of the deepest blue, sort of aquamarine, or sapphires, or cobalt all the colours in the box but it is its aliveness that is moving. It is like a state of meditation clear and still before one has a wonderful inspiration or a poem comes.
The land is asleep and so are the trees, branches against a still sky. It’s the cold at the end of the year and before the beginning. Like a never- ending story.
SEA POEMS FOR WINTER:
BUDLEIGH SALTERTON
Sun on the sea of glass
Surprising, its liquidity in December
The swell and fall on round pebbles
The curve of the bay, red crumbling cliffs
Sound continual
The sound of my soul,
An ocean inside
The same sound,
The sloughing and pulling…
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7796332.Lynne_Pearl
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thiel-Sea-Journeys-Lynne-Pearl-ebook/dp/B0DGLV3BJX
Art by Cath Whitehead