Tag: sunset

Fading Glitter

The fading remnants of day
Glitter on the horizon
Skyline silhouette under a golden sky
Beyond the great western harbour

I came here
Enthralled
Thirty-five years ago
Wide-eyed country boy

Glass and steel
In perfect lines
Rose above
The waters tread by commerce

A ride
A ride
A beautiful ride
On a sunny crisp
Sunday afternoon

Up the hill
And through the woods
Round corners
Through the trees
Over roots and rocks

How many sunsets
Have I witnessed
In this lifetime
And all the others

How many times
Have I watched
The last rays
Of a day dying

I spend some time
In a place like this
A place which strips away

Pretense
Distraction
Aggrandisement
Avarice

I find my presence
In the present

And in that presence
Is love

Many layers deep
Darkness receding
Clarity in the distance
Journey’s end in sight

I love
The colours
Of the sky

The way they dance
Into the day
Lively and so cheerful

I do not mourn
The passing of the sun
Because it is beautiful
And I know it will return

It is no different
With the cycle of life
And death
And rebirth

My camera captures
A tugboat
Held for all time
In a sea of gold

Like the dragonfly caught
In amber
From a time
No words remember

There are places
I like to go
When the world seems
A little grey

Places where
I always find
The colour
I’ve been missing

Under a sky
So ridiculously
Canary, Amber and Orange
My presence seems
To be the true miracle

How is it possible
There is such glory
In this universe
And how improbable is it
That I am its witness?