Open house
August 4, 2019
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Light and love live on
side by side with dust and death.
Nature’s open house
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Thanks for joining me, staying for the ride and keeping me on track. 😀
Tag: Nature
Red
April 3, 2019
Don’t ask me its name
I like to sit
look out the window
maybe with a drink
and watch it come to life
it doesn’t last long
as the birds
play around in there
almost hidden
its lower branches are tangled
with the white flowerings
of the bushy tree below
and I can imagine
as the petals
join in a spring romance
blushing to
a pink
but don’t ask me its name
as that would ruin the illusion
so I don’t need to know it
to understand the romance
of it all
and besides
it’s not there long
but when it blooms
so do I
Coincidence, or Nature at Her Best?
March 27, 2019
For a while now I’ve had some health problems and a couple of weeks ago I was prescribed medication to help.
Now I’m not after any sympathy or ought like that as I don’t generally talk about stuff like this but I just wanted give the reason for this post and introduce the power of nature to listen to us and reply in her own way.
As far as I could tell the medication helped but came with headaches of the ridiculous kind. 12 hours a day for 7 days and it said they go away after a week or two. On the 7th day I could take the pain no longer as each day seemed worse than the previous and on that day I was in tears. I just could not move without the pain cutting me short and making me quite dizzy and unstable. Needless to say I am no longer on that medication and am now all good except of course the aforesaid health problems which should be sorted in a month or two.
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I always talk to my house plants, I have a nice Weeping Fig; Ficus benjamina and a lovely Dragon plant; Dracaena marginata and quite a few Peace Lilies; Spathiphyllum.
On the 6th day of the pain I could barely move without my head feeling like it was being attacked with even more hot stabbing pokers or needles. My body was getting stressed and I gradually became quite hot. I didn’t know what to do as pain killers just bounced off the pain even the ones the doctors prescribed.
So I put my faith in Nature and my plants because a while back I read that plants are aware of our thoughts (Caretakers of the Cosmas by Gary Lachman and Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins & Christopher Bird).
The sky was clear and blue without a cloud and the weather unseasonably warm. As I said I was getting stressed and rather hot so I sat in front of the Dragon plant and with both hands wrapped around its trunk I asked for help. I just sat and asked and asked. I sat there for about 30 minutes or so and then all of a sudden the sky changed and for about the next ten minutes it hailed! Lots of nice cold hail stones fell and my room temperature dropped. It was just perfect. I stood and watched it and as I cooled and relaxed I smiled and thanked her.
My headache was still as painful but I was much cooler and more relaxed.
Nature at her best?
I’ll let you decide, but for me the universe, she, came to my rescue.
They say things come in threes!
September 9, 2018
Oh busy busy me! They say things come in threes!
My new poetry collection is coming along nicely. I very much like the proof copy but have found some typos etc.
I have the title for my next poetry collection and dare I say it here but I have the theme too … it will predominantly be a book of nature poetry.
This afternoon I have been working on the third collection of my Little Thoughts books and that also is coming along nicely and I have the title too.
Now it’s time for food!
Apologies, 5 Star Review & new book.
July 26, 2018
Hello all, I’m currently working on another collection of poems which will have a darker feel than After the Rain. I do have a title and theme but for now I’ll keep those to myself. I want to get as much done before I go back to work so I might be a bit quiet here, or I should say a bit quieter as I have been neglecting WordPress recently and I do apologise if I haven’t been getting around to reading your posts.
In the meantime if you fancy reading a bit more of my poetry then After the Rain is now available in a New Edition with a few poetic alterations inside plus a 5 star review on the back cover from author DM Denton, author of ‘Without the Veil Between, Anne Brontë’, who says I sometimes remind her of the Victorian poetess Christina Rossetti. The book contains over 100 poems and is available either from my Self-Publishing site here http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Martin_Shone or from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and other online stores.
Thank you all very much for your support.
her song of life
July 12, 2018
I can smell the earth
after the rain
I can sense its delight
its forgiveness
and its compassion
I can feel a slight chill
after the rain
a breath
a breathing of textured sighs
a whispered kiss
I can smell the grass, the flowers; life
after the rain
I can imagine the gentle hiss, of the escape
its joy of knowing birth
and the freedom of release
I can smell and see the earth
during the rain
petals sodden
joyful, joyful, dancing
and her song of life
smells so good
Flying Ants
May 7, 2018
A tiny droplet of orange
lands on my hand
as I sit reading in the shade
Looking up, expecting to see a bird closing its bomb doors
I see nothing but the blue
and the surrounding hug of the trees’ canopy
I reach down to the grass
to wipe away the perfect hit
and there this moment expands
A plump bumblebee belies gravity
by bouncing atop the grass
and for a brief spell inhabits my back pack
Beneath almost every tree
bluebells huddle and wave
as a solitary white butterfly says hello
There is a breeze of Mediterranean texture
yet thoroughly English in its philosophy
as blackbirds applaud the wood pigeon’s haiku
As the village clock strikes the hour
I notice there is more litter than last year
and more noise too
Over yonder, where I had planned to stroll
is becoming overrun by sunshine escapists
like a plague of flying ants
I’ll sit here a while longer and read
but first I’ll put aside my thoughts
and stroll to the café for a hot chocolate.
