depictions by the rule of thirds; descriptions mostly freestyle words
Just after sunset, the blue hour on lake Taupo spreads a stillness over the last of the day’s activities (and there are more blue lakes in my latest New Zealand post HERE) Māori name, Taupō-nui-a-Tia. – literally “The great cloak of Tia”; the explorer Tia… Continue Reading “cloaked in blue”
And first off Tess Taylor’s “May Day” poem… They go, the early flags, the gory maples—so too the daffodils & Lenten roses.Other petals swirl & nights warm. Buds thicken and cast shadows:in a thunderstormI almost forget the ice that was. Narcissi suckle watery paths;meadows… Continue Reading “May the Day go well”
My blue is not that of a mariner’s hankeringfor seascapes, nor the hue of rivers I follow faithfully– rather these favour steel and tealbefore the plunge into a foaming bice brine My blue is not that mood indigo lodging wax-like in the ear when… Continue Reading “My Blue”
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