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Friday 20 March 2009

Fire in the Sky -- by Mimitig

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Winter grim, dark, cold, wet
Occasionally snow relieves the boredom
Months with little hope

Early March, Spring shows early shoots
Purple and yellow crocus flowers peep
Afternoons eke out into evening
As the sun stays higher in the sky

Days are ever longer, mostly more rain
Then suddenly
Skies clear

All day is fair
Bright blue
Sparkling blue
Just fluff for clouds

Then sunsets start
Before, it was a nothing
Grey fades to dark, no colours
Now all at once the world has colour

Showers of rain
Bring luminescent rainbows

Evening becomes a joy
Fire in the sky
As a sinking sun
Builds castles in the clouds

Vivid colours allow vibrant dreams
Red turns to orange
Clouds that were grey
Take on electric colours

The palette changes
From the dark to
Utter light

Spring has arrived.

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16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Any smoke on the water?

Pinkerbell said...

Mimi - this is beautiful and it's uplifting to be thinking about the springtime. I filled my house with daffs today in just such a celebration...

Anonymous said...

Mimi,fire in the sky
http://www.younewstv.com/areas/kob/35869804.html
it's magical

Zephirine said...

That's beautiful, Guitou!

I really like this poem, Mimi, especially

Fire in the sky
As a sinking sun
Builds castles in the clouds

- lovely.

Offie, that is a truly amazing clip, it adds new meaning to the expression 'cross-cultural'.

Anonymous said...

Thanks all. I feel I was precipitate in heralding spring as we have reverted to horrid winter sleet over the last few days.

Also feel weird about the fact that a few days after I sent my poem to Zeph, some deprived/depraved youngsters/thugs set fire to the gorse above one of our beaches. There was genuine fire in the sky. Fortunately no human life lost, though can't say the same for the wildlife.

Mac Millings said...

Lovely, mimi. A good reminder of the joys of the seasons, as I prepare, possibly, to leave the Islands for other, more season-based climes. Thank you.

In other news, sorry for the ugly self-promotion, but I am attempting to do something that I hope will, at least occasionally, raise a smile, here.

New followers most welcome!

Anonymous said...

Doesn't work Mac. Like a broken collar-bone takes you out of the Hell in the North, probably.

That link goes nowhere.

Mac Millings said...

Thanks, mimi.

Try this.

Mac Millings said...

Yay.

Anonymous said...

Yay indeed. Mac. Twitter. That link works but what is Twitter and why? Except to be the chap with Doc and Mayo. You're already king there.

Why tweet?

I just don't get this.

Mac Millings said...

mimi,

Well, I don't really tweet in the regular 'Facebook Status Update' way - that's what I originally signed up for (as 'macmillings'), but realised immediately that I had no interest in doing it.

Then I read an article about people tweeting for comedic purposes in the guise of famous people and fictional characters - William Shatner, say, or Darth Vader - and I thought it might be fun to do something similar.

Turns out, it's hard work, and if you've checked out White_house_dog, they're not all funny. But I hope one or two are. And I am enjoying it.

Anonymous said...

Still don't get the twitter thing. I just do here, and at Pseuds.

But I do enjoy Fridays and waiting for Hob and Nob to read a Macmillings emai!

Pinkerbell said...

Mimi, it's done nothing but rain since you posted this, please write a poem about it raining for ever and the sun never coming out!

Anonymous said...

Death changes it all.

I must think now.

I'm crying for my uncle. He's dead and I am crying.

Anonymous said...

So sorry, Mimi. All the best.

offsideintahiti said...

Sorry to hear that, mimi. Hope the coming of spring helps a little bit...