
Helen once walked along
This path to antiquity
Fair beauty of Troy
Come away with the raggle taggle gypsy-o

Helen once walked along
This path to antiquity
Fair beauty of Troy

Fallow deer at rest
replete with summers bounty
proud of your palmate antlers
and your silky dappled skin
fit prize for a big eyed doe

There’s a pristine hush
and the lightest white sprinkle
on the Salisbury hills
Small tassles of joy
catkins or pussy willow
my childhood delight
My lovely friends I won’t be around much for the next week, so I’ll see you when I get back. I’ll try to catch up with my visits then, but please forgive me if I don’t. I hope I don’t miss your best ever posts.

A bright wintry path
leading who knows where, to spring?
pause and be mindful
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a trace of azure
wrapped in a skeleton tree
just biding its time