A Paradise Not Yet Lost

just some thoughts while out early one morning: pic. my own   Fascinated by Nature’s diversity, the colours and complexity of wildlife, the bustling socialness of interwoven humanity, people roam over the surface of the Earth, even the moon, sprinkling the crush of their footsteps everywhere they go. But not here, here we’re blessed with a sparsely-populated natural vastness, as yet, largely untouched by Man.

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Calling in the Crows

Written years ago on my relocation to the city from the sanctuary of my country retreat in Aberdeenshire and missing my crows. Hear my voice in your cold dark dawn frosty branches and purple streaked sky. Awake! rouse yourselves! heads removed from covering wing. Come now, to this small city dwelling. Fly above the cliffs and the barren cornfields, majestic […]

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Death Announced Her Arrival
Picked

This one was written for a friend, an old lady, who called me late one night requesting a ride to a hospital. For a number of practical reasons, I could not help her. Her sons absolved me as easily as they absolved themselves. I see her so clearly in my mind, sitting outside her huge empty house, waiting for me […]

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