Category Archives: beauty

Marina

February 4, 2023Azores, beauty, poem, Poetrybeauty, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Light
light everywhere
scattered from water
sky
and walls of clear glass

Crowded masts cut against
brightness repeated
white hulls slapped by wavelets
seabirds wheel and cry

All is light
all is calm

Broken Cable

January 18, 2023Azores, beauty, Data Networks, poem, Poetryazores, beauty, Data Cable, Data Networks, poem, poetry, published poem, science poetry, TelecommunicationsThe Cheesesellers Wife

In the middle of the bright Atlantic
Floating on the swell between island volcanoes
Beneath reflective surface tension
Silvered gas bubbles catch the light
And, across the issuing rift
A long snake of data cable
Broken sheared twisted

As the gas breaks the surface
We hear voices
Blogs bubbling to the top
Instructions to buy or sell
A thousand tiny voices
Sparkling in the sunshine
Several parrot fish swim by
Next day when snorkelling
I fancy I hear fish blogging

This poem was first published by the wonderful Helen Ivory on Ink, Sweat and Tears: http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?p=12491

The Azores

December 17, 2022Azores, beauty, nature, poem, Poetryazores, nature, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Nine glorious islands
girdled by ocean

perched on basalt flaws
holes in the world wall

where heat seeps up
and magma roils underneath

makes rock and homes shudder

Thinking of the Azores at present, where, although it is stormy and the central group of islands are experiencing many mini-quakes, it’s a balmy 20C!

Winter sun

December 10, 2022beauty, Life, poem, Poetry, winterbeauty, poem, poetry, sun, winterThe Cheesesellers Wife

The sky is empty
Pale winter blue
A single bar of cloud
Hovers over the western horizon
And as I drive
The sun dips behind it
The edges of the cloud glow silver
The strong beauty almost takes me off the road

Reposted from a while back, but this happened to me again the other day!

Pico

November 5, 2022Azores, beauty, nature, poem, Poetryazores, beauty, Life, nature, Pico, poem, poetry, volcanoThe Cheesesellers Wife

Dawn breaks the sky
raw light floods island & ocean
All birdsong ceases for just the moment
when day is painted over night
colour returns to us
a breeze slowly lifts
the sun soars, reaching for this speck of land
in ocean immensity

Pico, veiled in high cloud
crenulated by sister cones
looms soft purple & charcoal across the strait
diva of the skies, demanding attention
holding the gaze
stately hot tempered grand dame
always beautiful, subtly threatening

Another poem about the Azores, I must return soon……

Sun Queen

July 27, 2022astronomy, beauty, poem, Poetryastronomy, beauty, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Our Lady the Sun
source of heat and fuel for life
beautiful at the horizon
painting clouds and sky

We bask and burn in her glory
as she sits supreme at system centre
girdled by planets, visited by stray comets
Regally burning

Interior electrons impede her light
render her glowing orb opaque
not that you can see this
it would burn your eyes out

Another Damn Poem

June 1, 2022beauty, love, poem, Poetrybeauty, love, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Form
doesn’t always follow function

Beauty
cannot always be seen

Love
is hardly ever symmetrical

Ammonites

December 1, 2021beauty, nature, poem, PoetryAmmonites, beauty, fossil, nature, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Walking east across the beach
boulders and rocks littered
as if discarded playthings.
Each contains treasures
some already spilt out
glistening traceries of lives past
revealed after aeons of hiding.