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Summing up the end of autumn… Pix 1-7: Durham du

Summing up the end of autumn…
Pix 1-7: Durham during the October floods #durham
Pix 8-7: leaves & light along the canal #Worcestershire

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I had a fabulous time last week, facilitating the

I had a fabulous time last week, facilitating the Crave Arts Inspiring Place, Inspiring words Creative Writing Day with Steve Wilson for the FEAST festival.

Great Malvern Priory is a really beautiful and interesting place, as can be seen from these pix, and I really enjoyed the day, especially the really wonderful pieces written and shared by the writers!

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While walking in the Wirral, we stopped at Port Su

While walking in the Wirral, we stopped at Port Sunlight, mostly to see the Pre-Raphaelite art and furnishings in the Lady Lever Art Gallery. (A spectacular range in a spectacular building, though, perhaps because of the building, the lighting and reflections off some of the paintings wasn’t as great as I’d have ideally liked.) But it was also lovely to have good enough weather to enjoy some of the village’s beautiful historic architecture and poignantly striking war memorial in gorgeous autumn-leaf light and colour. Sharing the pix this weekend for obvious reasons. Lest we forget!

This, also bearing in mind what’s currently going on in the world…

This World Wide Web

When I close my eyes, blood falls
somewhere else, red as that missing girl’s
lost scarf, red as the poppies
dancing in my garden.

When I close my eyes, dust rises
from stampeding tyres in desert sand,
just before a mist of sudden gunfire,
or feet stumbling on a hidden landmine.

I flick from newsfeed to paper,
turn the pages, then let them fall
like closing eyelids,
or giant moths of black and whiteness.

I’m not the Earth’s axis;
my flightless eyes don’t close
as a butterfly-wing ripple, unleashing
a chain of storm chaos…

but this is my webbed world; eyes open
or closed, a million things happen
across our spinning globe –
no ocean wide enough

to stop lives spilling.
Only me in the middle of
my life, pulsing winged hope
to those within my reach.

From ‘Blood Sugar, Sex, Magic’ (Verve Poetry Press) – direct links through my bio linktree or at https://vervepoetrypress.com/product/sarah-james-blood-sugar-sex-magic-pre-order-free-uk-pp-due-apr-22/?v=79cba1185463

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