ode to winter
Posted: January 25, 2019 Filed under: the ash tree | Tags: Cornwall, poetry, Prayer 1 CommentPenwith 2019
In darkness, I think of you
And in my thoughts
I cover you with flowers,
A multitude of colours, shapes and scents,
And remove them one by one
To reveal you anew
In beauty and in wonder.
May your world be full of light and joy,
Inspiration, warmth and love
porthmeor farm, penwith © p ward 2019
peregrine; zennor church; godolphin house, cornwall © p ward 2018
© P Ward 2019
expressions of an intimate ecology 
“She wanted to be flowers but they made her owls” that’s a line from ‘The Owl Service’ by Alan Garner. Itself based on a tale from the Welsh Mabinogian. Your lines made me think of that story