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Home Thoughts


In rush-hour traffic on a foreign bridge
 you idly muse on how this sinking sun
will later tint the tide-swell of a distant lough
coax errant shadows from the west
silhouette those bulk-wrapped haystacks
sketch old ley-lines on a stubbled earth
hordes of hooded black-backed gulls
in circles over a harvest field


and reflect how it might etch a hell-bent
 whitethorn proud from an old rogue
sycamore; touch copper onto leafy beech
hum water-mint and meadowsweet
crushed on the baling trailers' turn;
glaze the hill-side gorse to clotted gold.
Home Thoughts


In rush-hour traffic on a foreign bridge
 you muse on how this sinking sun
might elsewhere tinge a far-off lough
coax in shadows from the west
silhouette bulk-wrapped haystacks
sketch ley-lines on stubbled earth
pebble-dash the black-backed ‎gulls
 in circles on a harvest field


and reflect on how its rays might etch
 the whitethorn proud from sycamore
touch copper onto leafy beech
 glaze hillside gorse to clotted gold;
mull meadowsweet and water-mint
crushed on the baling trailers' turn.
Annemarie 08/2015

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