Notes On Writing

I live your life,

Colour them with words

Which become

Sentences that flow into paragraphs -

They shape the pages,

Dense woodlands of words made good.

I live your life,

Climb breathless your flanks

The steep track with its dragging gravity.

One word at a time,

One heartbeat following the next.

I live your life,

From some deep spring

Emerging to run quicksilver

Across

Low winter sun.

 

I live your life,

Never knowing who leads whom.

So where does this path go?

I live your life,

The unsullied white sheet

On which dreamtime plays

Amid brilliance and shadows

Warp & Weft -

Breaking through the undergrowth

Great oaks reach for the sky

Marking the drover’s way.

After The Last Visitor Has Gone

Long after the visitor has gone

The sound of the bell

Lingers amongst birdsong.

Stepping stones scattered

Across the mossy floor

Sunlight, brilliant green.

Beyond the autumn leaves

A tea house roof –

A gentle murmur of voices

Mingling with water’s flow.

Under a brilliant sky

Red, yellow and orange leaves

Barely disturbed by the breeze.

To the camellia flower

A visitor resting,

Lunch perhaps?

Reaching the mountain top

Swallowed by cloud –

No view reveals all.

Softened by rain

The earth breathes

In-breath follows out-breath –

Drip, drip, drip from a pine branch tip.

The Gardener's Apprentice now available in paperback

My novel 'The Gardener's Apprentice' is now available in paperback on Amazon. Personal signed copies should be available in a few weeks time direct from me. Please get a copy! The perfect Christmas present for family, friends and lovers.

Meanwhile I am working on a sequel which is just over halfway through. Time is limited as I have been busy with various garden projects. I am hoping to have the sequel available next summer.

If you read the book. please let me know what you think, and do write a review on Amazon page

Go well.

Robert