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Catbells is changing colourburnished copper into gilded greenthe fields, alive in flowergive on to glorious mountainscapes, serene Higher peaks peppered with snow, belowthe wan sun warms the valley floorhere we may lay aside sorrowwhere grieving sings no more The birds trill out their tra-la-la songall the length of my broad trailtheir honeyed melodies in throngrise,... Continue Reading →
A tide of plastic is upon us,every day, we are bombarded, it is so seamlessly sewn into the fabric of our lives, we scarcely notice:plastic packaged fruit and vegplastic bags still everywhereplastic trays protect the meat we eatand the ‘earth friendly’ vegan products tooplastic helps prevent food waste, but spoils the earthplastic is a product of... Continue Reading →
LoveI want to shelter deep within your heartfor I am part of you, as you of me:there is no shelter when we are apart LoveI want to shelter you within my armsfrom a thousand thousand worldly cares and harmsin silence, as we listen to the wind’s song Childnine moons I sheltered you beneath my breast,I wrote... Continue Reading →
The warp and the weave and the weft of the windonly singssometimes a low and mournful moansometimes a heavy sighprophecy brings:'Awake, dull race, from your complacent slumbersee the world around you, world of wonderwithin, as withoutthis you have no chanceto make it outin one peaceand furthermore you have already lost thishuman race.' © 2022 experimentsinfiction.com. All Rights... Continue Reading →
Man writes in his pompousnessof my magnificence, Iinspire in him dread and awe Often, I would see himface upturned in the valley belowstraining his head-stalk, watching my swoop and plough Catching a thermal, hitching a free ride, up, upto the dizzying wideempty blue (or often, grey)with a clear eye to search out prey The truth... Continue Reading →
I try to bring the sunshine where I canthough days seem dark, the future dim, obscure: a breath of hope born where my life began. There are no certainties, for child, or man:nothing to which we may cling, constant, sureI try to bring the sunshine where I can. Though some seem to seek for the entire... Continue Reading →
Outside my doorthe roar of divine windlike the of the blast wave from Hiroshima:only another storm we made It’s only another storm we madea storm we madein a teacuponly another prayer un-prayedone huge, almighty fuck-up If knowledge is powerto kill ourselves who wants that kind of knowledge anyway?You praise this new technology, I say It’s only... Continue Reading →
Thank you to all who took part in my Citizens' Assembly via earthweal this week. I have submitted our feedback, stories and suggestions to the organisers, meaning they should feature in the first official Global Assembly 2021 report! I really appreciate the care, effort and consideration which participants gave to this challenge. Below you will... Continue Reading →
Such flameworksuch firesuch fury The once-firm rubber tireburst and meltedinto a trailof liquid white Such transformation by violence ‘All knowledge or devicethat Man has reached or wrought’*perhaps amounts to nought So in the end, there is simply this:crazed tangle of rusted metalcrushed skeletons of chairscharred interiorchassis ribboned in cordon Ineffectual soothed only by nature’s gunmetal grey sky © 2022 experimentsinfiction.com. All... Continue Reading →
“Come forth into the light of thingsLet Nature be your teacher” - Wordsworth, 'The Tables Turned' I’ve taken time out from the online worldstepped into otherworldsexplored liminal spaceswith you Everything is shiningeach and every dayaround each and every one of uswe’re blinded by the things we feel we ought to do: Step outside on a... Continue Reading →
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