LANDSCAPES
Tirweddau│ Landscapes
Our senses are powerful tools that can help us connect with the world around us. When we take the time to slow down and engage with our surroundings, we allow the beauty of creation to seep into our minds. By observing the colours, textures, and sounds of nature, the rustling of leaves in the wind or the sweet scent of warm grass we can still ourselves in the moment and begin a journey of transformation.
breathe
Lichen
take your time
wait
a gentle breath alights your sun-warmed skin
there
there between the skylark and the peaty earth
you are
feel
beneath you ancient ocean bed
old red
sandstone
Devonian grown
old
older now
and do you know how many are in a million?
in ten million?
be still
this weight of time and tide
lays heavily abed
it sees each kingdom rise or fall
and feels your fleeting tread
breathe
yellow lichen setting down
upon the rocky folds
symbiotic algae fungi merge, grown
into a glorious alchemical gold
see
now you see the patchy gilt and grey
all upon the still and standing stone
not a bawbee but the shining crown,
the silver shillings strewn along the way
be still
breathe
bright daylight nudges you and here
among the wispy zephyr, wing and loam
hears but prayer and longing
the voice within the mind alone
be still and close your eyes
time and tide will ever march ahead,
but here they can be stilled awhile. For now
the wind and warmth and wild and wings will move
but lichen growing still
and slow
and sure
allows this precious moment, peaceful, pure
be still and close your eyes
breathe
(c) Abi Hook 2024
