Winter Doldrums

Raunacht Collection: Day 08

Winter doldrums are days of a permanent grey. The sun remains unseen, and light barely breaks through the dirty curtains.

Hark! Sarnies to the rescue and a cuppa.
Coffee. Black. Strong. Fragrant.
You may have tea.
Small blessings are the strongest anchors of joy.
Each creating a colourful dot on my fairy light string.

Cold drops play a splattering song,
on the wet street and the hood of my coat.
I shuffle along to the 12 bar blues, somewhere water is leaking into my boots,
and the world around me is in brown and grey hues.

Winter doldrums are a never ending grey.
Where the day blends into the night and the nights won’t become day.
So I bring out the candles, light fire, fairy lights, books, chocolate and journals are all my favourite things.

I meander between stories and rhyme, as I wrap my blanket tightly.
Warm beeswax candles shine.

Shush now dear reader, just pause and listen.
Because in the right light even dull dirty grey rain drops with glisten.

A photo taken during a rainy night, I held the lens right at the glass pane from the insight, outside the fairy lights are caught in the rain drops on the glass and create interesting fractions of light on the window pane. It's like looking through a kaleidoscope

It rains

The rain it raineth every day
It rains cookies at night
Kisses in the morning
Tears on a bad day
And cuddles supporting

The rain it raineth every day
It rains coffee on grey days
Chocolate for sads
Smiles every chance
And laughter as much as we can

The rain it raineth every day
It rains Schnitzel with noodles
Friendship in oodles
Happiness as we make it
And sweet smelling roses

It’s not quite there yet but I thought I share anyway

Sleeping Dragons Awake

Rain 

A heart-shaped puddle
In the advent of rain
Clouds are gathering

Down by the river
When the sky leaks angel hair
Clinging to my face
Penetrating the lycra

Pertrichor
I still can’t believe we have a word for that

Kingfisher and Rain

May in Scotland

A lightning bold
Metallic blue
Dipped out of the canal
Into the trees

Flashes of blue
A bobbing jewel
Follows us
Along the water

A heavy scent, mixture of
Hawthorne, Bluebells, Lilac
Tangible, weights me down
Dash: the blue lighting bold
Emerges from the water
Stickleback in his beak

The successful hunter
Manages to hide amongst the trees
Before the downpour
We not

I stretch my arms to the sky
And laugh
Warm water rinses the heavy scent away
Replacing it with pertrichor
May in Scotland