Storm song of the Hawthorn
Gales come and gales blow
Its winter out on the hill
Gales come and gales go
Streams and rivers filled
The land flooded and full
Rainwater has nowhere to flow
And we hope for the lull
But still the storms blow.
And the Hawthorn still sings
Tribute to Astrid Lindgren’s “The Fox and the Tomten”.
©robcullenfebruary2020.
Pleased to hear that my work has been published in the Field edition of the online arts magazine The Learned Pig…
no art to this
no prizes
no surprises
spiders.
©robcullendecember2019
When the way seems blocked remember theres always a way through…
dead baby Seal at high water mark
somethings going wrong out at sea
somethings wrong with Earth
a balance has been lost
there’s more of us
and we want more
and our neighbours
we share this place with
are losing out
meanwhile we plunge off the cliff.
©robcullenoctober2019
Walking through a Welsh Rainforest this morning where my children played throughout thier childhoods and part of the reason they are the special people they are! Its a woodland that’s an SSSE but with Climate Warming for how much longer…
Cae’r Blaidd or ‘field of the wolf’.
The last wolf died in this place
but the hour of the wolf remains
and the wolves call for us, call for you
calling haunting us with their calling
calling for us over and over again
It is the time when we cross over
as some people say of the passing away
in the early hours when coldness
an imperceptible drop in temperature
loosens our will, loosens our grip on life
and the wolf crosses with us too
it has nowhere else to go after all.
A time we no longer speak of
the easing of souls young and old
the hour of the wolf remains taboo.
It is a way with our family at this time
that we sit in vigil, a candle burning
talk of remembrance, of memories
of life and the sadness of leaving.
But whatever we say the wolf remains
at the door until our time comes too.
And the wolf patiently waits for the hour,
waits at the door to call as it must do.
Published in The Learned Pig 2017
©robcullencelfypridd19
Raised bed with Curly Kale and Ursula Red Russian Kale inter-cropped with Jack Ice, Black Eyed Simpson, Red Leprechaun Cos Lettuce and Bronze Fennel.
©robcullenjuly2019
