Inspiration

Waters of the River Lowman, Devon – Photo:  WHB, 2017   ©

 

 

As Lowman meanders
hardly awake
over its pebbled bed
and as clear waters
give back the russet tones
of disturbed sand
of silt-stained rocks
so I muse

Imagination awakes
words flow
with the waters of the stream
transmuting my senses
into visions
of solitude
and silence
of grace in being
delight in life itself

These images
transposed
revisiting me now
with imprinted memories
of awe
of richness
felt in the bones of my youth
replicated now
in the dis-ease of old age