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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.

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breathe

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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