Heathland Poems - Poems about Heathland

... A crescent of high cliffs rooted into a plateau of heathland. From all directions cloud mottled wings, dart between the light and shade - falcons, their wingspans aerofoiled for instant chase.......

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...As dusk hours darken the skies ever later Crepuscular creatures return Strisores awaken the heathland As the heat of the day still rises from the earth. Quietness blankets the world in black ......

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...The heady scent Changing through the seasons. As spring is no longer embryonic It’s adolescence showing through. Swathes of yellow Popping buds and seed pods as the sun hits, An audible acc......

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...(An Addingham Poem) Clashes of old tainted galvanised buckets against the stone flags daily ring out across the manor farm yard, profanity given proficiently if the swine catches Father ......

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...'Twas slightly scary in terms doctors know did nurses nimble who would pass this way. Prickly plied do glories go so soon alas undismayed. Long time in fact she thought jabbed her vaccsees as ......

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...FIRST MOVEMENT (Minor Key) Times such as these test body soul and mind So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined Or loosed to concentrate on brighter things Like furry puppies, flowers a......

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...TRACKS THROUGH TIME The Sand and pebbles of this stoney way Once made a shore on warm Jurassic sea High dunes in desert, by great ocean bay Now heathland slopes and barrows that we see The......

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...On my first trip to the outback across the endless plains, I saw a harsh and hungry land in pastel coloured stains. There are more secrets out there, than sun and shifting sand - It would take mor......

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...Show me what you see each day Through your sparkling eyes of greens and browns Do you see the smiles, the tears and frowns On children's faces as they play Can you see beyond to the lilac heathe......

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