tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21615394080198416262024-02-19T05:02:26.801+00:00The Last PearlCie Turveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962378695567039177noreply@blogger.comBlogger124125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2161539408019841626.post-56110619578574579492020-08-20T21:04:00.002+01:002020-08-20T21:05:48.949+01:00She Stepped Lightly...<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwU02YKYaWn5iPy-8ULHQG3HhqDk3DlM2NdnbgO1mMo1aq_FI3NiKNRBMCUFavu6ZS9Oa5oCtcxQAJ3xaXH7G7DoDqr7s9Ut7HnXc68B0ykL3Ndg-4c1V9OGj_j15aJGiCGhvptS3exg/s900/6f3105311204d9cb67c28f05319982e6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="557" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwU02YKYaWn5iPy-8ULHQG3HhqDk3DlM2NdnbgO1mMo1aq_FI3NiKNRBMCUFavu6ZS9Oa5oCtcxQAJ3xaXH7G7DoDqr7s9Ut7HnXc68B0ykL3Ndg-4c1V9OGj_j15aJGiCGhvptS3exg/w198-h320/6f3105311204d9cb67c28f05319982e6.jpg" width="198" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">(<a href="https://art.famsf.org/bertha-lum/wind-sprite-19627740" target="_blank">image source</a>)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>She stepped lightly onto the breath of the west wind. Rising higher in the blue light, ribbons of sunlight and cool clouds caressed her, streaming out towards the sea birds as they twisted up and out of the waves. They soon reached her, their wings mimicking the roll of the air around her, and together they danced towards the twinkling lights, towards the flames that had called them into the night.</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Cie Turveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962378695567039177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2161539408019841626.post-57118758823208247342020-08-19T18:54:00.001+01:002020-08-19T18:54:40.269+01:00The Sound Of Trees...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Pale, in the moonlight, her form glows between the break in branches. Feathered leaves, green-grey in the dying light, flit and flicker as her hands roll amongst them. Light, and soft, the first unfurls of spring are welcoming. Drift, caress, sleep. The leaves roll and grow, curling closer. They spiral arms, hearts, minds.</i><br />
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<i>They unknitted from the ground. Unleashed from ivy-vine, hands tore out of the earth and grasped at the cool spring air. Their tips felt the sun, the sun that was rising grey-green amongst weed and flowerbed. The warmth prickled, flesh renewed, the hands started to soften and glow.</i></div>
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<i>Light comes in the summer with a breath as soft as chalk, bewitching the night into a colourful dance of haze and vapour, sinking a glowing palette into the land. It plays across the rocks and foam, brightening irises and running along the needle tips of beachgrass. We feel our feet cut through the leaves, grit and sand caught between our toes like a harvest of burnt amber. Tawny, gold flecks and then the lavender liquid sea - a coast of colours seep and flash around our eyes. The catch is in - slipping bodies, their fins decked in silver caught from the moon that now sits yellow, yellow and half-remembered in the closing clouds.</i></div>
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<i>In from the shadows, from the dying lustre of the trees and the lid of advancing night he came forward from the edge of the wood. Tail embracing the last of the sun's grey glimmer he made his way towards the lantern. The last meeting place, the last warm light that hung on the edge of all things.</i></div>
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<i>The snowbells ring throughout the endless night. Shaking their stark, blistering white light across the frozen fields, these little bell-flowers help light the way for the night travellers who search out for spring's new song. When the south starts to warm, after the deepest chill of winter, the land exhales a wistful air that sends itself reeling towards any remaining cold and ice, its determination gathering speed as it melts all in its path. The north feels it coming, and the brave flowers that found their way out of the snowbanks reverberate and buzz with pleasure. They call out again and again to the wild, warming winds. Those that travel after them delight to see the snow fracturing on their path. Green fingers rise sharply from the clods to greet them, and they dance together as the world around them brightens.</i></div>
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<i>Inside the stack lived a little lady made of words. Letters ran across her skin, her eyelashes beat with exclamations and her hair uncurled languorous descriptions of the stories her heart whispered in the night. The walls of her home were faded papers, histories and folktales that lingered on the page like shadows. Whether from sad thoughts or moments of delight, the tears she shed were made of blackest ink. They splashed around her and broke into an alphabet, the tiny characters ran around and banded together, weaving themselves into new yarns of extraordinary adventure.</i></div>
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<i>In the distance she saw the mountain, its peaks enveloped in a confusion of white wings. They swirled like May-ribbons, entranced and attracted by the safe, rocky ledges but ever recoiling from the cold surface. She made her way within the whirlwind of weathers, edging closer to mountain path. It arched away from her and she gazed up, up to the crags that held such dear treasure.</i></div>
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<i>With the world so white, and frozen, winter was when light fractured at first sight of snow and disintegrated into curves of colour across the land. We lived by the edge of forest then, watching sunshine fall apart at break of day and rush back upon itself to nightfall. All the trees were hung with opals and pearls, and we picked them like fruit, ghost fruit that melted when they touched our lips.</i></div>
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<i>The chalky flowers bloomed, despite the lack of air and dragging damp of the windowsill. Their leaves stretched out like vines, reaching higher, ever higher, towards a fresher climate. The world outside had drowned for days and the view had diluted into drab flat hues. As the days drifted, the children's eyes became as washed out as the world and their hearts gasped in their sodden cages.</i><br />
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<i>The pea-blooms lingered long that year. The sun, warm from languid days turned and became pale, silent and crisp. Some glow was left in September and it caressed the flowers, their petals flourished and clung to fingertips that called on them. Days clocked on, and mists curled across the land with a darkening intensity, leaving leaves burnished and bronze, and the peas clutched ever closer to their house of wires. They remained the last stand of summer.</i></div>
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<i>The mist had moved mountains, turning them to sky; a sky of melting clouds that ran with colour. They seeped into her shadow and behind her eyes, and she hid in its folds. The damp air bewitched her fingers, she swept them through the vapours, absorbing time.</i></div>
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