Defiant
Through January chills
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Your milky whiteness
Nurtures us
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Through all our winter ills.
Defiant
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Needing a Mystery
Thin winter branches
Sill alive
Reaching out for the weak winter sunlight
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As if they knew
In their poverty
They needed a mystery
Still to survive.
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Photograph: Thin winter branches, Teign gorge, Devon
The Greatest Part of My Learning
A bullfinch perched
Right outside my window
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They are so shy
This was a notable occurring
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And my heart lifted
Just to watch him for a moment
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With his bright red body
And rich black head
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These unplanned revelations
The greatest part of my learning.
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Image – A fleeting glimpse of a bullfinch, Morchard Bishop, December 2024
Greater Depths
The buzzard flying away
Turning to look at me
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Behind him
The infinite blue sky
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As if in his freedom
He had greater depths than me
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In his affinity
With what is on high.
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Photograph – buzzard, Morchard Bishop, Devon, December 2024
First Night
First night
No noise
Starlight
And silence.
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