Duke

2 Nov 2011

My Dream

this was my dream

Waking, I found myself floating, something melodic running through my head, my eyes remained closed. I could hear breathing, slow and low, hypnotically peaceful. I smile automatically, it’s the effect you have on me every time, but I only remembered to br...

Duke

10 Oct 2011

Lunaria annua

Where do we live?

"Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross" the old nursery rhyme goes, but although there are many fine ladies, I'm sure, few if any ride any kind of horse through the streets of this ancient town. If you are lucky you could see me going about my daily business...

Duke

2 Oct 2011

Thoughts Take Me

Wherever my day takes me, my thoughts find their own way to their own place..

After a disappointing summer, September began as though any hope of some sun had been cancelled for the year. The first week had squally showers, short but extremely sharp; the second added gales to the mix, it all felt very autumnal. It was during this s...

Duke

25 Sep 2011

Ceremony

I have both observed, and participated in The Japanese Tea Ceremony. The exquisite way each article was handled, and the reverence with which this ritual was performed were both striking and profoundly calming. With origins over a thousand years ago it de...

Duke

3 Sep 2011

How It's Supposed To Be?

Is this how it's supposed to be? I never knew Nor felt as close to anyone, never had presumed. Every waking moment filled with thoughts of you, All my dreaming has me enthralled, all subsumed. There is a shimmering love light running through These feeling...