thawn

tournesol

fall

Time and season

clock-leddy clock-leddy

ettercop ettercop

All four seasons - spring

All four seasons - winter

All four seasons - autumn

All four seasons - summer

it could have been winter

Rain falls blind

Rain falls blind on ground already wet;
weeping drops scatter, sightless,
among the soil-grains.

Howe o Nicht

Moon on the slates,
skitters its flichterin licht

Efterneen

A file yet

till gloaming,
an the streets

Foreneen

Yalla sun ower the reefs,
maks glentin leams o windae gless,
pirlin shafts reflectin aff o hi-rise waas.

April

April hid hope
among its cruelties,
promised change,
slow to settle
as the yellow grass
unbent.

March

Wind on the bay,
force six and rising,
beating the narrows
where the island slopes
to cliff-edge margins:
bare rock over water
as deep as sky,
as grey as the gale.

JFMAMJJASOND

January cold taxes the purse.
February remembers love for a time
While winter deals its worst.
March gives us reason
For changing the season
As wind blows through like a curse.

between

in an arc of light
a segment
heaven meets the sea

sea washes
the feet of continents
and narrow human ground

and in the space
between heaven and earth
the emptiness of air

reflects blue above
and the blue of ocean
the colour of weather

while everything alive
circles in the curved
brushstroke of creation

© BH, 2018

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Alison Dunlop posted her latest large-form watercolour between heaven and earth (on TH Saunders Waterford Series archival cotton paper, 101 X 153 cm) destined for the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour Open, in Edinburgh (in November 2018).

As ever, it captures the sea and island-scapes of the Minch and the Inner Sound between Skye and the mainland.

I had to make a short poem on it…See Alison's website for more… The RSW is here…

Solstice

Summer came in
From the islands.

After rain or storm
A cold wind blew
From the south.