Category Archives: beauty

Gonzo

June 27, 2017art, beauty, poem, Poetryart, beauty, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Sometimes I get gonzo over words
Or struck on a view, a detail
Sometimes I need to capture the
Moment, view, emotion, ache
Sometimes I’m playing
Like now

Desert sky

May 27, 2017astronomy, beauty, cosmology, Life, nature, poem, Poetry, Science, science poetryastronomy, Blogging, cosmology, Desert, Life, Milky Way, night, poem, poetry, science, science poetry, sky, space, Wadi RumThe Cheesesellers Wife

Driving in a roast red desert
Headlights staring into primeval dark
The untrammeled sky glorious

Above us a bridge of stars
Rivering between rocky horizons
At once near and so very far

Cricking my neck to see
I bounced around the back of the open jeep
Absorbing, amid the shudders, splendor

Star birth and death, worlds hidden by distance
Great glowing nebulae
Fat in the centre, a devouring black hole

Time

May 17, 2017astronomy, beauty, Life, love, poem, Poetryastronomy, Life, love, Marriage, Moon, poem, poetry, time, wedding anniversaryThe Cheesesellers Wife

I have loved you for so long
That the moon has moved measurably in its orbit
Islands have grown, jungles fallen
Empires have been toppled
I loved you as a youth
And now at the apogee of your prime
I love you still

…and all of this is true…..

………the Moon has retreated 132 cm from the Earth since we first kissed………

Caught

May 10, 2017art, beauty, nature, poem, Poetryart, beauty, Earth, Life, nature, poem, poetry, quantum, rainbow, spider, subatomicThe Cheesesellers Wife

I am caught in the grip of wonder
The balance and symmetry of mathematics
The glints and sparkles of a spiders many eyes
The shimmering dance of subatomic particles
The everyday terrible beauty of our Earth
Look at the way a chickens feathers catch the light
Look at the reflections on that puddle
Look at how the road undulates ahead
How car headlights reveal different things
In the depth of the darkness
How light reflects to give
A rainbow in that roadside oil spill

Fosbury Fort

May 9, 2017archeology, beauty, nature, poem, Poetry, springtimearcheology, flowers, Fosbury Fort, hill fort, nature, prehistory, spring, springtimeThe Cheesesellers Wife

Skylarks sing and soar
We walk encircling ramparts
Gazing at the still deep ditch
Imploring the grassy interior
Unyielding of its secrets
Bluebell woods encompass almost two quadrants
Storms have tipped mossy trees into the line of defence
Making us clamber and slip
Amid the fragrant blue

….we went walking in Jane Austen country this lunchtime (on Doctors orders), and explored the hill fort on Haydown Hill……….

Avebury Stone

April 24, 2017archeology, art, astronomy, beauty, Painting, watercolourancient, archeology, art, Avebury, beauty, history, Painting, sketch, Stone age, stone circles, Stonehenge, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

One of my interests (my sons may term it an obsession) is prehistory – which was born from childhood visits to ancient sites in or near the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire. Not so far from the end of the Vale is Avebury stone circle, arguably more spectacular than Stonehenge. Here is a sketch of one particular stone in the Avebury circle, and a rather colourful watercolour interpretation.

Memory

April 22, 2017beauty, garden, Life, poem, Poetrychildhood, heat, Life, memory, nature, poem, poetry, spring, summer, sunThe Cheesesellers Wife

Memory

Lost in the dynamic of memory
Drowsing in the heat
Breathing scents of my childhood
Unsettled
Breezes rouse and cool
Jets drone high above
Sinking into my minds depth
In the embrace of warm afternoon

Culture Vulture

April 17, 2017art, beauty, nature, watercolour, Wild lifeart, birds, endangered, Hawk Conservancy, nature, Painting, vulture, watercolour, Wild birdsThe Cheesesellers Wife

We are very fond of Vultures in my family. This is a portrait I painted of one we sponsor at the Hawk Conservancy, a Hooded vulture called Captain Thunderbolt. Isn’t she lovely?: