clouds
The Channel is restless and beats the Dorset coast We watch the sea like a painting in a listing museum An invisible brush rolls the breakers onto the beach Whipping the clouds into a stampede from one horizon to the other Photo Hugh Ardoin English Landscapes Gallery
She was waiting for the bus at the embankment Half skiffs were raised as makeshift benches You could only see her legs in shiny nylons The other half of a mermaid waiting by the sea A building standing blind with so many eyes And a blimp in the sky chasing the clouds Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
Twin bridges cross the same river in an early morning rush The clouds send their mysterious messages up in the sky A signal that something is about to start from this small rivulet Caesar walking into Rome, against the law to fulfill his ambition On the far side, the unrevealed destiny and the hopes will […]
So, mankind believes it can rule nature By putting no-parking signs in the fields Growing crops for free on the land it staked Its hands are everywhere but hold nothing Waiting for the clouds to offer their water For the wind to weave the greens and golds And for the sun to ripen the wheat […]
Roaming the vast desertic spaces with his beasts A lone herder follows nature’s whims and his herd’s needs From one watering hole to the next grabbing the rare greens A long voyage to nowhere following the clouds They drift high in the sky carrying his dreams Seen from above humans are grains of sand in […]
In the red evening light on the Red Planet An old acacia stands tall in a millet field A palm tree just close by for company An as a pillar to rest its old branches Nature puts on a light show for the golden hour The waving branches chasing the clouds in the indigo sky […]
The desert has put on its green dress for the rainy season Clouds run in the sky like a flock of white and grey sheep A man stands under a tree in the middle of what appears to be nowhere He is holding a radio listening to news from some unknown faraway place Soon everything […]
A man with a big umbrella talks to a girl, life is on idle The wind unfurls his blue cape as if it was the flag of a nation And the storm runs in the sky above chasing the clouds Rainy season comes at the same time every year like a monsoon Everybody knows it […]