LANDSCAPES
Our senses are powerful tools that can help us connect with the world around us. When we take the time to slow down and engage with our surroundings, we allow the beauty of creation to seep into our minds. By observing the colours, textures, and sounds of nature, the rustling of leaves in the wind or the sweet scent of warm grass we can still ourselves in the moment and begin a journey of transformation.
Lichen
take your time
wait
a gentle breath alights your sun-warmed skin
there
there between the skylark and the peaty earth
you are
feel
beneath you ancient ocean bed
old red
sandstone
Devonian grown
old
older now
and do you know how many are in a million?
in ten million?
be still
this weight of time and tide
lays heavily abed
it sees each kingdom rise or fall
and feels your fleeting tread
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breathe
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the yellow lichen setting down
upon the rocky folds
symbiotic algae grown with fungi
conjuring glorious alchemical gold
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building up
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hears but prayer and longing
​then offers its cradle
enfolding patches of life
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bright the daylight nudges you and here
among the wispy zephyr, wing and loam
still
close your eyes
mote
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