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Tuesday 30 April 2013

Campaign

A warmer wind
Nine seagulls on sentry duty
Out in the sound
Past the buoys and the markers
Beyond the Shiants and the fish-farms

A warmer water
Suited to dolphins and whales
Soaked in dreams of human pastimes
Stilled by the paintbrush
Settled by the slower words 
& the irregular verse


from The Hebrides - Water and Stone
Christopher's Poetry collections can be found on iTunes and on kindle by clicking the highlighted links

Monday 29 April 2013

Seedlings in Flight

The grasses blown
Blown on
To thoughts of home
On the water and the wind
Thoughts blown home to you


from The Hebrides - Water and Stone
Christopher's Poetry collections can be found on iTunes and on kindle by clicking the highlighted links

Sunday 28 April 2013

We walk with love at hand and in the distance

He paints from memory
We talk from memory
He walks across the machair
We walked across the machair

Out to the still & raging seas
Out to the living, breathing sands
Back in his studio

He lets the canvas carry his load
We let his words enter our thoughts
He works from memory

The depths of his unconscious are ravaged
We listen from memory
The depths of our unconscious are sated

His present mood
Reflects our present mood
In the surface tension of the painting
In the surface tension of our conversation

These will be original works of memory
For as Jac says, we say 

He is a professional artist
We are his populations
He is a painter
We are the work that found him


from The Hebrides - Water and Stone
Christopher's Poetry collections can be found on iTunes and on kindle by clicking the highlighted links

Saturday 27 April 2013

Young Man

Restless soul
Rips at his cigarette
His thin artist legs
Carried quickly by red plimsolls

As he skips
Across the decking
On to the seaweed strewn rocks
By the slow tide of the water


from The Hebrides - Water and Stone
Christopher's Poetry collections can be found on iTunes and on kindle by clicking the highlighted links

Friday 26 April 2013

Rain & sun & rain & sun & rain &...

Blue sky to the heavens
Grey mist to the sea
Black, white crested waves
Rothko through and through
Within our imaginary spirits


from The Hebrides - Water and Stone
Christopher's Poetry collections can be found on iTunes and on kindle by clicking the highlighted links