Category Archives: beauty

Breakfast

March 22, 2020beauty, humour, poem, Poetrybeauty, breakfast, dawn, humour, poem, poetry, skyThe Cheesesellers Wife

Today I’ve arranged to breakfast with the sky
we haven’t been talking much lately and
so need some alone time together
in her lovely blue halls cushioned with fluffy cumuli
although blue is probably not her best colour
at breakfast, she’s more into yellow and rose.
Trouble is, she gets up so early and those of us who
don’t need to rise for work tend to sleep in….

I wonder if that’s why she’s been so distant to me?

Ocean of Storms

March 18, 2020astronomy, beauty, poem, PoetryMoon, moon landing, Ocean of Storms, poem, poetry, science poem, science poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

No storm ever played across your surface
No rain ever fell
Dust lays where water would otherwise
No fish here can dwell
Misnamed lunar ‘ocean’
That two men have bounced around
The child of massive impact
Lava flooded ground

Re-blogged from 2016

Open

February 29, 2020beauty, nature, poem, Poetryblessings, philosophy, poem, poetry, skyThe Cheesesellers Wife

Let me lie here
Open to the sky
Counting blessings

Llansteffan

February 19, 2020beauty, poem, Poetry, summerbeach, beauty, Llansteffan, poem, poetry, summer, WalesThe Cheesesellers Wife

Gulls swoop and lift
stitching sea to sky

Mirror smooth sun glinted
water sips at the shore

Supping on scampi in salt air
we have found our bliss

Friday Poem: Beauty and Charm

February 14, 2020beauty, Friday Poem, Life, love, poem, Poetryancient poem, beauty, Capito, Friday Poem, Life, love, poem, poetry, Valentines DayThe Cheesesellers Wife

Beauty sans charm may captivate
But does not last, for look
It’s merely like the fishing boat
That floats without the hook

By Capito (around 600BC)

This poem is from the Dover edition: Great Short Poems (Ed Dorothy Belle Pollack)

Watercolour Sky

February 12, 2020art, beauty, poem, Poetry, watercolourpoem, poetry, sky, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

The image is built in a series of layers
First, a pale blue wash across the sky
Then, broad brush strokes of pale icy cirrus
With pen details of contrails crossing At the midpoint
Broken colours of cumulus, grays dark and light
Inky smudges along the horizon
All above a darkened landscape
Washes of Greens
Inked in hedges
Occasional highlights
Painting left unsigned

Reblogged from 2016

The beginning of all understanding

February 8, 2020astronomy, beauty, cosmology, poem, Poetry, Science, science poetryastronomy, cosmology, dark matter, higgs boson, poem, poetry, science, science poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Darkness born from darkness
the beginning of all understanding
Tao te Ching, John H. McDonald, trans.

On an night when all possibilities seem open
when hills and towns and roads
dance and roll in my headlights
I muse on the dance of Higgs Bosons
across seeming emptinesses
matter forming and reforming
in deep space and time
in the most primeval dark

Bone, bird and air

February 1, 2020beauty, England, nature, poem, Poetry, Wild life, winterbird, nature, poem, poetry, Red Kite, wildlife, winterThe Cheesesellers Wife

Bone, bird and air
conspire to create grace
joy, a tumbling skydance
life exuberant, bright
triumphant over cold and hunger
here this icy winter day
knitted in those bones
are genes we share
we each breath the air
but only she flies
painting her joy onto the sky
cavorting into heaven