by Steve Tanham
On days like this people often ask why we do it? Why do you spend precious holidays pitting yourselves against the weather, particularly the hot sun, just to travel a few hundred miles by bicycle? No-one’s asking. I’m running this conversation alone in my head, as the temperature climbs to thirty three and the cloudless, blue sky dominates everything with its intense heat. There … Read More French Postcards 6
by Steve Tanham
What Curves Caress (In the style of Sufi poetry) What curves caress the distant sky when distance is not known? What shades of finest touch release the moment new which is not held? What depths of shade use shadow only to conceal the deeper joy? And in that joy, behind the shade, behind the touch, behind the sky, itself, will I not see you? … Read More What Curves Caress
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“High Summer’s Kiss” ⦿ Floating, curling gold Of pristine fullness, forming Shining solstice kiss ⦿ Feel free to share or re-use, but kindly leave the notice intact to help the Silent Eye School. ©Copyright Stephen Tanham, 2016
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Next time you’re having a bad, day, a really bad day, console yourself with this… He was what Dickens would have called a Scrooge, a miser of the first water. He lived in a large house on the south bank of the Thames near where the Golden Hinde now rests. His name was John Overs. In the 12th century, he owned, and his … Read More Gems of the South Bank (ii) – A Very Bad Day…
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“Involution” ⦿ Ageless grace, whose life Is fed from silver stars ablaze above Erupts to green life anew ⦿ Feel free to share or re-use, but kindly leave the notice intact to help the Silent Eye School. ©Copyright Stephen Tanham, 2016
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“Sly Dog” ⦿ Hissing flow on stones Green soft swaying, fullsome trees Sly dog drinks it all ⦿
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“Hiding in the Leaves” Third in a series of Tuesday Art pieces. Feel free to share or re-use, but kindly leave the notice intact to help the Silent Eye School.
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“The Seen” Second in a series of Tuesday Art pieces. Feel free to share or re-use, but kindly leave the notice intact to help the Silent Eye School.
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“Coming Home” First in a series of Tuesday arty pieces. Feel free to share or re-use, but kindly leave the notice intact to help the Silent Eye School.
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Finding Gawain – Act Five (final part) Deep within the Hart, the white hands reach for him… And, in the space between the single drop of blood leaving his skin and hitting the dry earth beneath the headsman’s block, the Bright One pulls his unresisting being out of time and changes him. Meeting no resistance and working within a the field of total trust, … Read More Finding Gawain – Act Five (final part)
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(image: detail from ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ by Hieronymus Bosch. Wikipedia Creative Commons) Finding Gawain – Act Four Reckoning… Within the forest there is a sense of reckoning. Plucked from Castille Diablo, the man who may once have been Gawain finds himself, again, with wild blood in his veins and standing in the middle of the Clearing of the Ways, facing the West from … Read More Finding Gawain – Act Four
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Finding Gawain – Act Three, part three And then… And then, there is the sound of laughter rolling in from the hills…that host the hunt…that gives rise to the baying of the hounds…that draws exhausted, dirty, frozen and stinking Gawain from his muddy deathbed and flings him, like a mannequin on parade, to the gates of the Castille Diablo, and, via a startled but … Read More Finding Gawain – Act Three, part three
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