Month: November 2017

Lords of Division

No passing bells For those fine fathers Who dodge and draft The deaths of others ⦿ The weapon makers’ art Is mute, no finer part Than see the sons of heaven Torn apart ⦿ ©Copyright Stephen Tanham

Remember…

The Silent Eye Paper poppies bloom, as fragile as the lives they represent. Every year it is the same, I try to find some way of saying what is in my heart and the words will not come.  I was not there, I have no right to speak of war and its atrocities. I have not seen it with my own eyes. I have … Read More Remember…

Et in Arcadia Ego… Stuart France

Solstice of the Moon: A last adventure

Seven days, seven photos – day seven

SEVEN DAYS. SEVEN BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS OF YOUR LIFE. NO PEOPLE. NO EXPLANATION. CHALLENGE SOMEONE NEW EACH DAY’ My thanks to Sue Vincent for inviting me. In turn, I invite anyone who wishes to join the challenge. Thank you Steve

Seven days, seven black and white photos – Day Six

SEVEN DAYS. SEVEN BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS OF YOUR LIFE. NO PEOPLE. NO EXPLANATION. CHALLENGE SOMEONE NEW EACH DAY’ My thanks to Sue Vincent for inviting me. In turn, I invite anyone who wishes to join the challenge. Thank you Steve

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The Deadly Edge of Love (part two)

(Continued from Part One of The Deadly Edge of Love) It’s the morning of 18th November, 1558. Robert Dudley is witnessing a miracle. In her dying months, Queen Mary, Elizabeth’s half-sister, and daughter of Henry and Catherine of Aragon, has restored Elizabeth to the line of succession, following the failure of her marriage alliance with Charles II of Spain. Now, Mary is dead, and … Read More The Deadly Edge of Love (part two)

Circles of Heaven…

Solstice of the Moon: Colours of faith

Seven days, seven black and white photos – Day Five

  SEVEN DAYS. SEVEN BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS OF YOUR LIFE. NO PEOPLE. NO EXPLANATION. CHALLENGE SOMEONE NEW EACH DAY’ My thanks to Sue Vincent for inviting me. In turn, I invite anyone who wishes to join the challenge. Thank you Steve  

Seven days, seven black and white photos – Day Four

  SEVEN DAYS. SEVEN BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS OF YOUR LIFE. NO PEOPLE. NO EXPLANATION. CHALLENGE SOMEONE NEW EACH DAY’ My thanks to Sue Vincent for inviting me. In turn, I invite anyone who wishes to join the challenge. Thank you Steve  

My Temple is the Sky

My temple is the sky, Which speaks to me  In passing moments Too brief to truly capture But not too brief to see ⦿ My hearth and home Is this, our earth, enraptured My body-brain became its child  And yet, ‘I’ am a child of sun And, in me, loved, as in you Ascends a different eye ⦿ My solace is the ocean Which … Read More My Temple is the Sky