A fleeting glimpse
In a train window pane:
The wide world passes us by
Totnes railway station
Reflected in Devon
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Journey
Rails of solid steel extend
From place to place
Past countryside we speed
The weight of words
Waiting for a train
Training with a weight:
Sounds same, but meanings differ
When two words have the same spelling or same pronunciation, they are called ‘homonyms’
Geometry
Lines parallel
Meeting at infinity
Only in your mind’s eye
Gandhi, Lenin, Stalin
Non-violent Gandhi
Beside three leading men
Who faced fate with force
This mantle-piece at Shaw Corner, the home of George Bernard Shaw at Ayot St Lawence in Hertfordshire, bears the portraits of (from left to right) Mahatma Gandhi, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Vladimir Lenin, and Josef Stalin. Shaw met all of these men.
Writing on the wall
Fading letters on a wall:
Memories evoked
Of times long ago
Picture taken in the midst of the area of London where the annual Notting Hill Carnival takes place
Where two countries kiss
Steep cliffs encroaching
The stream gathers speed
The Iron Gates loom ahead
The Iron Gates is a narrow defile or gorge through which the River Danube flows. One side of this attractively impressive canyon is formed by Romania and the other by Serbia. At one point, the two countries come so close to each other that they seem as though they are kissing. Where they come closest, there is a hydroelectric dam that was built during the Communist era.
My picture was taken from the Serbian shore in 1990, when Serbia was still part of Yugoslavia.
A picture is worth a thousand words
Worth a thousand words,
A mere image
Can express so much so quickly
Climate change
High above the clouds
A climate protester flies,
Changing the climate
This was inspired by an article in the Daily Mail newspaper (see: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6938095/Dame-Emma-jets-5-400-miles-green-is.html), which reported:
“Emma Thompson arrived at Marble Arch yesterday afternoon to support climate change protesters and urged others to join their numbers.
What she might not have mentioned to them is that she had just flown back to Heathrow Airport from Los Angeles the day before.”
A carved Crusader
A life no longer,
Remember’d in timber:
Farewell, Crusader knight
14th century wooden effigy in church at Paulerspury in Northamptonshire, England
For more information about this rare mediaeval carving, see: History of Paulerspury
website from which this information was extracted:
“Under the arcade between the chancel and the north chapel, on a freestone tomb panelled with cusped ogee blind tracery enclosing shields, are wooden effigies of a lady (c. 1340) and an armoured man (c. 1346-9), now placed side by side but not necessarily originally associated with each other. The male figure may represent Sir Robert de Paveley. The monument was restored by Frederick H. Crossley of Chester in 1920, following a report on its condition by the S.P.A.B. in 1915“
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