Windswept Beauty

Wind Swept Beauty. . Upon hilly brackish tor Of a wild inhospitable Windswept ambling moor Woolly sheep chew cud and bleat In the shadow of the over looking Rugged towering sister mountains . A sprawling sweeping land Of tawny browns and greens And carpets of purple heather Laid by God’s hand in between . Linier lecithin blotched Higgledy piggledy drystone walls Boundary lines Thickets of bracken Woody copper copse With steeple wind battered tree tops . Silver ribboned stream and brooks Snaking through the rugged land Gushing rushing over Stone pebble and boulder Sparkling cold clear and clean Lazy pouting gasping trout Suddenly turn and try to kiss the sky As a flock of flapping crows With raucous calls pass by . A harsh unforgiving land Weather beaten unrefined Rugged beauty upon sodden earth On which it defiantly stands Under temperamental moody Ominous varied darkened sky’s Capturing many a heart And pleasing the eye. . Peter Dome©2020.