Tuesday 26 October 2010

beyond the bridge

I turn my camera sideways
and see the light melt on the water.

It lies on the surface,
a mercurial slick,
pewtered droplets spread thin
until they shatter into pinpoints.

I watch in silence,
this watery incandescence,
this glittering metallica

and then I ask my mother,
"did you see that too?"

9 comments:

  1. Your camera?
    What camera?

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  2. Beautiful like a poem in light.

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  3. You have managed to capture the elusive waters beautifully with your words and pictures. Thank you.

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  4. And you said you didn't "get" your new camera uh?
    Not form these pictures one could say.

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  5. Beautiful imagery. Sounds just perfect.

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  6. Will it make you think I missed the point if I tell you that on our crossing toe the Isle of Lewis in the summer we had a similar experience. The sun was like liquid fire dropping into the ripples of the sea. I Have never seen it like that before. (I must add that it was the only sun we saw all week)

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