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Exmoor Spring

May 23, 2018beauty, England, exmoor, poem, PoetryEngland, exmoor, poem, poetry, rhyme, sheep, spring, springtimeThe Cheesesellers Wife

Sheep gnaw at clumps of grass
Buttercups shine as yellow cut-glass
Bluebells haze and blue a bare hill bereft of a wood
And I laze where struggling shepherds once stood.

Crying the moor

December 21, 2016art, beauty, exmoor, Life, nature, poem, Poetrybeauty, England, exmoor, Hiking, Hollocombe Water, Life, Moor, nature, Peat, photo, photo art, photogragh, poem, poetry, sheep, travel, walkingThe Cheesesellers Wife

Crying the moor

Sedge and moss, peat and grass
Cover the uplands
Sheep run from us, cattle simply watch
Clouds scud past, rain threatens
Stone track turns to muddy path
As we descend to the combe
Past the ruins, past the ponies
Towards the burble of falling water
The fluidity that carved the hill folds
The agent that governs this landscape
Made manifest in Hollocombe Water

Exmoor Evening

November 30, 2016exmoor, Life, nature, Poetryevening, exmoor, Life, nature, night, poem, sheep, sun, Sunset, travelThe Cheesesellers Wife

Exmoor Evening

Bone cold moon lifts over a sheep fold
Lights fleeces
Illuminates walkers breasting the darkening hill
Who pause to watch the suns display
As its fire sinks behind Dunkery Beacon