Sunset

Posted on March 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blank verse, Earth, Equator, Life, Light, Poem, Poetry, seasons, Sun, Sunset4 Comments

The night draws in again

Sunset and its rosy glow is gone

Eight minutes before the sun set

Light travelling ultra fast,

Eight minutes to shine from sun to earth.

Energy in motion, then lost

Behind the hill

Night infects the light

It’s inky blackness sometimes reduced

By moon and stars

Or reflected light on clouds.

But the dark cannot hold as the earth turns.

Tipped slightly, seasons prevail North and south.

As spring arrives days grow longer

Now sunsets late or never

While equator stays the same

the North and South vary.

Sunset later every day till mid summer

Then decline.

Finding panorama mode.

Posted on March 16, 2019March 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour photo, Geese, Lake, Panoramic view, Photos, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Sunset, Westport lake2 Comments

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It took me a few months to realise that there is a panorama mode on this phone. This was westport lake last month. I like that my partner is at the far right and the path continues at the far left. The geese are at different heights which seems to work with the step where the landing stage cuts into the waters surface. Mine and my friends shadow are a bit annoying but the sun was setting behind us and all the shadows fan in towards the lake. I like how the path on the left is straight and not curved like the rest of the photo.

I’m picking random photos to look at because often they just get a glance and then I move on……

Lake

Posted on February 2, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Fun, Micro poem, Photo, Play, Poem, Poetry, Sunset, Too tired to writeLeave a comment

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The trees by the lake cry wooden tears,

The sky glints grey and gold.

Silver shimmers, water waves,

Cold walk in sunset glow.

Sun pillar

Posted on January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beach, Clouds, Devon, Ice, Photography, Possible painting, Sun pillar, Sunset, Weather2 Comments

It was about 5 years ago when we were on holiday in Devon. We had arrived at the camp site late in the evening after a leisurely drive down from the Midlands.

As the Sun started to set we walked down through the dunes to the beach. My eye was taken by a pillar of sunlight shining from below the horizon where the Sun had just set. I have seen sundogs before (reflections off clouds on either side of and above the Sun that look like tiny parts of rainbows). But I did not know what this was. Luckily I had my camera with me and snapped these shots.

I later found out this was a sun pillar, caused by the sun reflecting off high icy clouds. I’ve never seen another one.

Grey sunset

Posted on December 30, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blog, Grey, Life, Silhouette, Sunset, Trees, View, Winter sunsetLeave a comment

We live on the wrong side of the hill to see sunsets, so it’s only when I see a glimpse of red or pink reflecting off the clouds that I know something is happening.

Today I was coming home from the shops and I saw a gap in the clouds and a tiny patch of blue. There was also a glimmer of rouge painting a fiery base to the clouds.

I quickly drove over the hill and tried to find a spot where the view wasn’t hidden by trees or houses.

He view was a grey one, with a tiny glimmer of red fighting the street lights on the horizon. The trees and iron fence made strong silhouettes against it. I wish I could have been there 10 minutes earlier. It may have been glorious, but I missed it.

One day I might live in a sunset facing house. Now I just look out for pink clouds and dash up over the hill.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Sunset