Category: Artwork inspired

• Tranquility

  (in response to a walk on the seafront in Heysham)

  
  The cool breeze wraps around my ears,
  I forget a camera and pause,
  absorbed in panoramic view,
  the bay brings peace to thoughts,
  freedom whispers around in silence,
  Cumbrian mountains in mist
  like a citadel to a secret world,
  not a ripple of water around me
  in sight of the ocean.

  My eyes close
  and reflect this moment of solitude,
  the soul calmed and captured in this stillness,
  sky reaches out forever
  my concern released to the world,
  twilight direct to heart,
  encapsulating the mind.

  January 19, 2024

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• Walking Boots

  (in response to painting ‘From the Crags’ by Mike Barlow)

  

  Silence echoes,
  unlocks mechanics of mind,
  eclipses nine-to-five,
  working the inner dynamo,
  escape in the compass needle,
  in nothing there is everything,
  nature carries you
  and hears your heart in the openness,
  the space that holds you,
  projecting this earthing,
  peace sets the soul free.

  November 6, 2023

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• Desolation

  (in response to ‘Innocent Perceptions II’ by Helen Morgan)

  

  Bleak clouds sweep across the sky casting shadows,
  like a black and white motion picture,
  nature dormant,
  a little piece of heaven breaks through,
  broken by the blank of Autumn,
  shading the mountain tops
  like a dull mirage,
  fragmenting the fall,
  this barren landscape.
  
  Small animals hide away
  behind wild blowing heather on hillside,
  reluctant in their homeland,
  silence echoes in twisted landscape,
  belonging to the atmosphere,
  auburn colour breathes warmth
  like a cosmic charge,
  around withered shrubbery
  and shimmering time.

  June 16, 2023

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• Tempest

  Inspired by the artwork of Helen Morgan

  

  I see the storm behind you.
  A cascade of sea and sky
  moving earth’s core,
  spiralling flairs escape,
  wind strikes the rain down,
  a tsunami blows water into light.
  
  I reach for my compass.
  
  Nothing but the elements,
  the wilderness is its own,
  outside the sea of chaos,
  waves unleash to freedom,
  forcing the world away.
  
  But I can’t see you.

  June 16, 2023

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• Turning Tide

  Inspired by the artwork of Helen Morgan

  

  A cascade of waves,
  the pull of moon,
  casting stars aside,
  triggering channels,
  exploding light,
  absorbing clouds pulsate,
  merging, forming,
  turning on axis,
  echoing all the way back to shore
  like a bird returning home,
  fragments surfacing,
  pushing elements forward,
  in majestic charge,
  reflection clears and grows
  like an eye in a magnifying glass,
  light absorbs the surface,
  dark particles obscure nature’s canvas.

  June 16, 2023

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• Mirage

  Inspired by the artwork of Helen Morgan

  

  My figure compromised
  and for this thought
  a thousand times over
  I thought I’d caught it.
  
  Cascades of space,
  a pocket full of colour
  makes a world
  echoing around amber nectar.
  
  From the granite of core
  shining into the unknown,
  a raising motion
  spreading to the organic edge.
  
  The repressed filters in,
  a still common bird waits
  by the fizz and spark,
  space age by the lake.
  
  A phoenix flying,
  colours verve like the amplification of sound,
  elements fragment,
  the surface melts and soul releases.

  June 16, 2023

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