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Tag: Trees

Winter is not generally associated with clear skies, not in Cumbria, at least! But when when a period of high-pressure brings clear air, and everything begins to freeze, there can be found the most beautiful of sunsets… (300 words, a two-minute read) Sue Vincent, one of my fellow Directors of the Silent Eye, along with Stuart France, the third in our trio, are both … Read More Winter walks with camera (4) : cold sunsets

December 20, 2020 + #Silenti, Consciousness, nature, Photographic techniques, Photography, Seasons of the year, Silent Eye School

Winter walks with camera (3) : the fire in trees

by Steve Tanham

I find a nobility in winter trees. They endure the brutal weather, but show us, in that endurance, their purpose in revealed structure… (140 words, a one-minute read) The inner process of leaf-life to come is laid bare as the rain howls and the wind tests whether this year will be the last. Below the ground, the vast spread of roots has a life … Read More Winter walks with camera (3) : the fire in trees

July 23, 2019 + #Poetry, Metanoia, Mindfulness, Mystical poetry, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

Half day, half night, half nothing

by Steve Tanham

Along the edge of darkness lives delight A silver, shining, running stream A place of soul’s respite Where questions rise unbidden And answers tease and tide from hidden A flow so all-embracing that the third: Not day, not night, is briefly seen. ➰ ©Stephen Tanham

August 23, 2015 + Mystical poetry

Rooted in the Land

by Steve Tanham

Rooted in the Land No raging storm front tears my roots from ridge No howling sky will twist and drag my limbs from land The densest deluge will not wash my will enduring, rooted here to frame and feed this place. But one day the lightning may come . . . And neither rhyme nor reason then resist endurance’s end ©Copyright words and image … Read More Rooted in the Land