A New Vision

No prayers were said there

but a stilling of the heart’s grinding

that was peace enough

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We walked on discovering

at every turn a new vision

of unimagined grandeur

each differently lovelier than before

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Perhaps heaven will be like this

a walk across the moor

on an everlasting day.

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Photograph – Hooney Tor, Dartmoor, Devon, UK, December 2024

Blessed Stiperstones

On Stiperstones

The gorse is out

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The heather’s purple

And there’s the shout

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Of green

Bursting everywhere

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I tread the way

And breathe the air

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That’s freshest

Nearly anywhere –

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And walk on blessed Stiperstones

Without a single care.

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Rowan tree on the western side of The Stiperstones, Shropshire