Sunday, 5 May 2019

If ever there was

Inspired by the What matters to you retreat in 
Old Lathrisk, Freuchie April 2019 

If ever there was a place to 
have a retreat it would be here
Old Lathrisk in spring

There’s a calmness even in the birds
Mostly they sing
Or chat amicably
Just occasionally there
Is the p’wee of the buzzard
An unforgiving warning
disguised as innocent cries 

And the writers
hardly making a ripple in the peace
We capture a small part in
a season reflecting ourselves
And once we leave 
Perhaps leaving a whisper of our conversations
But then the waves of this old house
cover our paths as if we were never here

Ah yes if ever there was a place 

to have a retreat it was here.




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