Our Slow Meander

Loose Leaves – Art Inspired

 

Hiroshi Yoshida - A Garden by Lake Biwa (1933)

That feeling when some moments seem like they could last forever …

 

 

Making the most of

our slow meander –

the silence in-between.

 

 

 

Winter Wind

Loose Leaves – Looking Back

 

 

This photograph was taken, and poem written on the day before the first snow fell on Mount Fuji this year: 28 October 2026.

 

 

Black triangles

beneath sky blue –

cut-glass wind.

 

 

 

Photograph by Tim Chamberlain, 2026.

Sea & Sky

Loose Leaves – Reflections

 

 

Circling the sea

and sky –

a lone albatross.

 

 

 

Autumn Reds

Loose Leaves – Art Inspired

 

Emma Haworth - Autumn Reflections

 

Somehow expanding

within itself –

Autumn redshift.

 

 

Erin Hanson - Autumn Tapestries (2015)

 

This poem was originally posted on Bluesky.

Snake Charmed

Loose Leaves – Art Inspired

 

This is an example of the kind of alchemy that transpires when a lover of John Keats’ poetry happens to idly peruse a modern fashion magazine …

 

 

L’AMOUREUSE DE LAMIA

 

Squeezed oh so tightly

in her smooth python skin –

lithe limbs entwined

about Lycius’s nakedness;

her forked tongue teasing

flickering near his ear,

slowly quick quick slow –

his heart constricts, till

all his breath is gone.

 

Stretched out –

quietly quivering,

yet stiff as

a dead mongoose

locked in Lamia’s embrace.

 

A final shudder

as Lycius’s eyes glaze

and his mortal body melts

into solid marble.

 

Silently, she smiles

and sheds her skin,

as she slips away.

 

Such are the lead weights of

love’s pangs for poison –

seeped, sought and suckled,

in search of sweet suffocation.

 

 

 

CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLES :

 

Flute notes flickering –

her stilettos sync

into his charmed heart. 

 

 

Photo Credit: Manière De Voir & Charles & Keith

Pumpkin

Loose Leaves – Senryu (or witty, tom-foolery)

 

 

If you can’t be good, then you best be bad … Happy Halloween, Daahlings!

 

She taps the sign

and I turn into

a pumpkin.

 

 

 

This poem was originally posted on Bluesky.

Photograph Credit: Chris Sanders / Sideshow

Her Voice

Loose Leaves – Looking Back

 

 

Falling in love –

her voice

on the demo.

 

 

 

Photo Credit: PickPik