All words and images © Deirdre Molloy 2006-2007 except quote: "Life may sometimes be sad, but it's always beautiful." Jamie Liddell -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fall Today I walked alone seeing Beauty all around but especially in the decaying flowers going to seed gracefully in the late September sun. black bouquets and white fluffy tufts bunched on bleached stalks like an army of widows turned upside-down, some armed with brown, spiky spears. A crunchy feast for a field mouse ripe and ready, seeking pastures new a pigs back, a bird's belly, a gust of wind to shake, to scatter, to fly, to fall. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leap of Faith Laid out below like an Irish flag Are rich green and gold August fields (an infinite series of polygons) Topped with creamy white froth and with a bent finger of colour the...
"Travelling alone is like a long meditation"