Been on my holidays

Hello everyone. I’ve been on my holiday. I travel back from Scotland in a few hours time.

I was with my son 24/7 so haven’t posted anything as I wanted to both savour the experience and give him my full attention. I have made notes about my trip which I will probably write up as I get a little more time to myself this week.

In the meantime, have these two poems I wrote this morning as he sleeps.

Ladybird day

I knew a day, a ladybird

Curved, beautiful and bright

Shiny hours that jammed my skin

With lacquered scarlet flight

I watched in awe as luck was mine,

Crawling briefly on my hand

Finally, she flew away

Who knows where she will land

The cloud library

The Cloud library is open,

For those who read the sky

Your favourite type of heaven

Will eventually pass by

As bluebirds bathe in milky swathe

Rain lurks in rounded grey

Silver pregnant bellies burst

To quench the thirsty day

Rainbows quiver blissful scarves

Through gaps of brooding blue

Lemon twists and Scottish mists

Funnel building mood as brew

Lightning bites dark ink

As thunder adds imposing sound

All this, and many spend their lives

With eyes fixed to the ground

Also……

I did try to post this little video (below) for the solstice so you could see just how gorgeous it was where I was staying but it was so remote the internet didn’t work (so worth the sacrifice of rubbish internet though) so I may as well post it now. Obviously the solstice I refer to in the video, has been and gone but you can still see how pretty it was.