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Lesley

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About Me

Paint, trees, birds, animals, plants, weather, food, books, poems, stories, films, music, family, friends, dreams, cakes.The oystercatchers are here! In the dark pine-wood I would we lay, in deep cool shadow at noon of day.

My Interests

Music:

"The tree that moves some to tears of joy Is in the Eyes of the others only a Green thing that stands in the way. Some See Nature all Ridicule & Deformity, & by these I shall not regulate my proportions; & Some Scarce see Nature at all. But to the Eyes of the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, So he Sees. As the Eye is formed, such are its Powers."William Blake.

Television:

The Lovely Night. Now I leave this little hut,Where my beloved lives,Walking now with veiled stepsThrough the shadowy leaves.Luna shines through bush and oak,Zephyr proclaims her path,And the birch trees bowing lowShed incense on her track.How beautiful the coolnessOf this lovely summer night!How the soul fills with happinessIn this true place of quiet!I can scarcely grasp the bliss!Yet, Heaven, I would shunA thousand nights like this,If my darling granted one.GOETHE

Heroes:

Here is a wee boat sitting in the wind.The storm unfolds. Lightning plays about the edges of the clouds. ... ..and a young cow under the summer morning moon, in deep cool shadow... The sky to the north is placid, blue in the afterglow as the storm piles up. It is a flower that will soon reach the apex of its bloom......as the little birds fall silent in the woods, under the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun...the only secret is in the sunlight, sacred to the sky. The mountain ponies prick their ears, when the earliest stars began to move along the edges of the hills... ..beneath the trees or the glimmering lake, there came a pause of silence, then a gentle shock of mild surprise ....but what we feel is the wind in our faces, the pattering sound of sheep pass by in the snow - flock of thoughts, shivering, desolate, out in the cold.The sea, which no one tends, is also a garden when the sun strikes it and the waves are wakened .. a tremulous delight.My eyes already touch the sunny hill. It has inner light, even from a distance......I have a lovely homeland, the oak trees seem so tall and the violets blow so sweet. It is like a dream. Sylver Boats

My Blog

Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintainance

The four have arrived in a cardboard box - looking threadbare to say the least! Their combs are very pale and altogether rather scrawny. Names - Angusina, Bonnie-Jean, Caitlin and Ruby. Angusina i...
Posted by Lesley on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:06:00 PST

More words

HallaigTime, the Deer, is in the Wood of HallaigThe window is nailed and boardedthrough which I saw the Westand my love is at the Burn of Hallaig,a birch tree, and she has always beenbetween Inver and...
Posted by Lesley on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:26:00 PST

Words

Earth Voices HEARD the spring wind whisper Above the brushwood fire, "The world is made forever Of transport and desire. "I am the breath of being, T...
Posted by Lesley on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:56:00 PST

Just a moment

THE LANDSCAPE WHICH WILL HAVE BEEN SHOT IN SIX MINUTES FROM THIS SPOT WHEN& &when a drizzle has started sprinkling, while the dogs from the nearest village which are not almost heard in the falling br...
Posted by Lesley on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:37:00 PST

The Lovely Night

The Lovely Night Now I leave this little hut,Where my beloved lives,Walking now with veiled stepsThrough the shadowy leaves.Luna shines through bush and oak,Zephyr proclaims her path,And the birc...
Posted by Lesley on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:54:00 PST

Nothing but heather

Only as a patch of a hillside may be a cliche corner to a fool who cries 'Nothing but heather!' where in September another sitting there and resting and gazing round sees not only the heather but bla...
Posted by Lesley on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:35:00 PST

Birches

BirchesWhen I see birches bend to left and rightAcross the lines of straighter darker trees,I like to think some boy's been swinging them.But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay.Ice-storms do that...
Posted by Lesley on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:44:00 PST

Bio-fuels by Callum

The following is written by my friend Bobsickle aka Callum. I have known him since he was an annoying small child - now he is MUCH younger than he says he is on his Myspace thing. I'm very proud of ...
Posted by Lesley on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:01:00 PST

Landscape

"The images and characters of Werner Herzog's cinema have come to inhabit or possess me deeply, and yet their habitation or possession has occurred so fluidly that I suspect they were inside me all a...
Posted by Lesley on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:10:00 PST

Letters to a Young Poet

We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all. But how much better it is to recognize that we are alone; yes, even to begin from this realization. It...
Posted by Lesley on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:42:00 PST