Flickering leaf
Your life so small
Backdrop against the cloud
Grey turning to gold
Bringing the morning
Breeze blown streams
Beside you the tree
The tree is already bare
Slimmed down to a minimal load
For the winter ahead
Blues and pinks
Wander over the skyline
Shepard’s warning red sky morning
Still like a skeleton
Magnificent from branch to branch
Closing down for another year
No nests to survive
Just you and the sky
With your friend in the foreground
Still covered in leaf
Every cloud has a silver lining
In this early sunrise morning
Bewitched by the gaze of pink and blue
Light glorious light
From where once again
Your pleasure never stops calling
The levels and the Mendips
Under water-born dew
Natural friendships;
Oaks, sycamores, sunlight
Shadows cast across the canal
Into the orchard
Seeking
The laws of relative relativity
Rising by the metre
Rising by the mile
Over railway lines and radio waves
The horizon becomes the centre
Setting balance in the work
The low trees red leaves are waking
The cold grass aglow
With deeply sprinkled sunshine
Pathways wandering in the waves of fall
Warmth rising
From between the space and time
From between the here and now
