One Mindful Moment

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.

Hunter

 

Intensely, snoringly asleep

Body still -

but paws quivering,

whiskers twitching,

ears flicking.

What is being stalked

- or taking flight in Dreamland?

Perfume

Borne on naked branches,

Winter Honeysuckle.

An unexpected, balmy scent-cloud;

I am embraced by fragrance at the kitchen door.

Winter gifts these small pleasures to us -

Droplets of delight to lift my dank, grey days.

 

Renewal

In the midst of decay

'green fuse' spikes through emerald moss;

the cycle of the seasons in the span of two hands.

Lamplight

Packing Christmas away

but not the memory - or the lamplight

Which welcomes the visitor to my door...

Tiara

From many decades past -

Waxen lilies, good-luck charms

For an unknown 'Happy Couple'.

Since when - have other floral garlands

framed them both?

Remnants

Extra cards, unused crackers

Handtowels with snowflakes...

How diminished, these remnants

of the huge abundance that was Christmas

(Abundance  of warmth and contentment

- not being packed away in a box).

Watching

A sunny gap between hail-sleet-storms;

At the bottom of the garden

we peer into each Other's space.

I offer a greeting -

he offers a toss of the head and a whinny.

Gulls

At the flooded, windswept lakeside,

gulls with the wings of youth

await handfuls of corn and bread

from we bystanders.

Food and the beauty of the wild -

our gifts to each other.

Chair

On TV - my mother's beloved New Year's Day Concert

Waltzing 'Tales From the Vienna Woods'.

To the lilt of the zither,

her chair, still in my room,

never so empty as at this moment, each year.