One Mindful Moment

Shed

In midwinter

The chaos of the jumbled potting shed

items thrown in to keep them dry

but the door left open -

a refuge for roosting birds

Alliums

Overwintered seedlings, now eager for the light

flailing their leaves towards the watery sun;

pale precursors of their bursting purple future.

Nuthatch

Full fluffed feathers

against the winter cold;

Peck, peck - look 

Peck, peck - look

Hanging on for dear life;

Alert, always, to danger

...especially when feasting.

Cookbook

Battered, broken and torn

discarded in the bottom of a box.

Fingerprints, droplets, stains;

its reason for being

smeared over its body.

Give it a decent burial?

No - there's life in the old book yet.

 

 

 

Soggy

Squelching to the compost bin

through old and rotting leaves around its base.

Suddenly, between the toes...

cold and creeping wetness;

a lurking hole in the sole of my shoe.

Rainbow

Along the mundane pathway of the weekly shopping trail,

turning a corner, regaled with singing colour -

uplifted from the greyness of the traipsing chore in hand.

 

 

Impecunity

Pasted in the corner of an old journal

(Honeymoon, English,

touring Europe, 1883).

On the pages written in Venice -

this contemporary newspaper clipping.

No euphemisms here

in the search for a solution!

Nudity

Not a Yellow Brick Road

but a bark chipping pathway,

soft underfoot,

leading me down

past the naked new fence.

Exposed, undressed,

waiting clothing with climbers -

I avert my eyes!

Seedheads

Blooms of dessication in the winter garden

Flowering death - enshrouding life

(Jerusalem Sage )

Editors

Sky Arts TV

'Picasso and Braque at the Cinema'

...the movies; their influence on art.

Me, watching the small screen

playing the big screen.

Many layers, many editors

many realities.