Tales from the edge of the morning sky
535 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago -A selection of stories and tales, mainly about the natural world, our place in it, as well as stories about everyday people who change their lives and others by being different or perhaps by being too much the same
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Fog (In Spring)
May 04, 2023 15:00 - 42 seconds - 589 KBFog (In Spring) Feels like November, without the darkness, without empty leaves and debris fall, no wind, no winter, no hidden stars, just the emptiness of sky and call, of rooks and cries, for about the church and tower, the peel of bells, the lifting dark and dawning grey, spring lies, hidden, in blossom, in flowers, summer lifting life for the choir of light, that begins today. Feel free to contact me. Be nice to know who my audience is and...
Thunder and Silence
May 02, 2023 15:00 - 50 seconds - 711 KBThunder and Silence Still and silent, the hardness of steel, black and grey, presses and squeezes the morning light from a reluctant dawn and leaden sky, whilst below in swathes of new and vital green, the earth exhales and holds itself, ready for the fall and hammer of early morning thunder rain, and though the birds sing loudly, in umbrella songs of colour and invisible kites of hope, in the celebration of thousands of applauding trees, t...
Slow…
May 01, 2023 14:00 - 43 seconds - 605 KBSlow Slow are the morning skies to clear, summer’s secrets still hidden in spring time flowers, clouds and tears, For though the trees are full, with leaf and opening green, the plough, earth and seed await still folded and unforeseen. And so alone I walk along the path, between the fall and rise of hill, river, copse and dale, knowing life will open and unfold, with time to pass until moments open earth life and seaso...
She’s Singing
April 30, 2023 14:00 - 54 seconds - 740 KBShe sings She sings atop the apple tree, the morning opening, springtime life and sunlight awakening, across the blue mist and gauzes of dawn and grey, the dew dropped grass a sweetening freshness of tears and summer, blossoming and joy, in forever time and for today. And clothing her meadows and orchards, standing, awaiting, upon her shoulders, proud and tall, dawn is uplifting intoxicated, with fragrances and perfumes, upon a smili...
Eclipse
April 29, 2023 16:00 - 1 minute - 1.26 MBEclipse: an episode. We looked out of the window. Suddenly, it had gone dark. As if we had awakened into a dream that was not our own. As if someone had slipped away from the world into shadow. There were some reflections in the window. A blue light. A pair of eyes. A line of light suggesting an open corridor: an exit perhaps from whence we came. The shadow of myself peering into the visceral shock of what we could see. Outside, above the trees it was dark. Layers of cloud passed slowly ...
Dancing (Horses)
April 25, 2023 15:00 - 49 seconds - 630 KBDancing (Horses) Dancing in the rivers of darkness, the twilight stars in gentle dust do fall, the moon rises hanging upon rooftops, beyond the city, above the blinking rush of light and roar, into a deafening silence beyond the hew and empty thrall, And standing still, three horses hold the silence, facing the lengthening shadows, the steepening stillness of a coming night, one black, one grey, one a messenger, of morning, silhouetted in silver, incandescent...
Remember Rain?
April 23, 2023 14:00 - 59 seconds - 793 KBRemember Rain? There’s something about the rain, falling in tears of silver, from the dull and grey of a weeping sky, softly, so softly, in thousands, each in, and one, of the many, the droplets of memory, upon the window pane, and so to look upwards, beyond the puddled terrace, gardens of green and blossom, the tickle and trace of pouring waters, to the bridge, and beneath, the endless flow of rain and river, the stream of w...
Spring (Summer Bells)
April 18, 2023 15:00 - 21 seconds - 334 KBSpring (Summer Bells) Summer bells in Spring do chime, the blossoming of life the passing of time, as above the flowers, the sky in blue, longer to come the hours of May, the promise of summer born in you. Feel free to contact me. Be nice to know who my audience is and perhaps you can suggest some further topics or themes for my writing! And do give me feedback! [email protected]
Blossom (in the Rain)
April 16, 2023 15:00 - 42 seconds - 548 KBBlossom (in the Rain) Blossom in the rain, falling petals of spring weeping steel and grey of winter leaving, For at last, wearily and closing, his eyes, heavy and drooping, shut as a rumble of thunder rolls Rolls and echoes, across an early darkness, the birds silenced, only raindrops dance and call, to earth, and soil To fall Into a deeper darkness of waiting, and dreaming summer and of leaving the light of dawn and day ...
The Tree
April 15, 2023 14:00 - 41 seconds - 610 KBThe tree Between wind and storm, sea and sky, the tree stood through time, rock,place, roots deep, bough and branch, stretching high. And below, his children cried,played, couples carved, hearts, and kissed, through generations of footsteps in passing, seasons made. For then as now, in spring the woodland blossoms, with stories along pathways all journeys true will bring. And in the passing of hours, there is a calling from legends, magi...
The Silent Sea
April 12, 2023 14:00 - 1 minute - 1010 KBThe Silent Sea She stood beside the sea, and watched the sky, in mirrors of waves, upon the golden shore, overhead, the seagulls swooped and arced, weaving light in invisible nets of crystal geometries, the sun slipping beyond the distance and mountains, sentinels of ancient times, and lore. And upon the receding tide, ripples of time, the dance of days were written in colours, silhouettes and shadows, above, the first stars, l...
First of Light (And Spring)
April 10, 2023 05:00 - 1 minute - 1.07 MBFirst and Light Across the first, the light of morning, beneath the fading fall of stars, April awaits through the light of dawn, and grey, for beyond the meadows, awaits the birth of life, of Spring and today. For above the terrace, still sleeping, the early bloom of flowers, a breeze, the first of summer lifts the silence to hear the birdsong upon the broken brick and garden wall to please They lift the hush of memories summer bidd...
Spring
April 07, 2023 05:00 - 1 minute - 906 KBSpring She was dressed in moonlight, swathed in stars and walked across the garden cold, For Spring she wore and spring she was, robed in April and early morning gold, and though the frost was deep, the stars bright, and the first calls of life did sing, winter turned again towards the east, and snow with ice he promised to bring, but the wind whispered, the flowers nodded, the river chuckled, and the sky grew brighter still, so winter grumbled ...
Remember Snow?
April 04, 2023 16:00 - 19 seconds - 327 KBRemember Snow? The dull, heavy, distant thud of morning silence, fills the snow and fall of December dark and night, for where else, can one find the dream of summer, than in the falling forget me nots of snowflakes, in the late awakening of dawn, and light? Feel free to contact me. Be nice to know who my audience is and perhaps you can suggest some further topics or themes for my writing! And do give me feedback! [email protected]
No (War)
April 03, 2023 16:00 - 30 seconds - 385 KBNo (war) No words tonight, no clouds, no sky, no moon nor stars to guide our way, just emptiness, the wind, brittle, hollow with memories, life like quicksand pulling time love, and care away. Feel free to contact me. Be nice to know who my audience is and perhaps you can suggest some further topics or themes for my writing! And do give me feedback! [email protected]
Spring (A Love Song)
April 02, 2023 16:00 - 1 minute - 858 KBSpring (A Love Song) Slipping into the evening, darkness the moon does rise, into hidden stars and skies, I’m missing you walking beside me, with tears of yesterday’s sunlight in dewdrops of memories, falling from my eyes, For if beautiful was a place, it would here in the moonlight, walking amongst the trees, hand in hand with you, winter dreaming of sunlight, my heart quickening in wonder, the blue of April skies, the morning awakeni...
Morning
April 01, 2023 15:00 - 1 minute - 1.02 MBMorning (Spring?) I awakened this morning, opened the terrace door, looked out to life, a storm had passed, the sky in ragged edges, the wind still in waves and strong across the tides of sky and empty trees, clutches of daffodils danced and trembled, in choirs of yellow, singing in colours, blind to the hour, and the coming of spring, And as I walked along the puddled pathway, overgrown with clumps of grass, the blossoming silence of blue forget-me-nots, my eyes were led to the gap betw...
Travels
March 31, 2023 14:00 - 1 minute - 836 KBTravels Strange feelings, travelling to another home, through black and white and monochrome, sitting on this train, looking out across the grey, the snow, memories falling in the hush and quiet a solitude of the past, warm in the heart of family, outside of the deepening the winter cold, somehow, more than the feeling of passing through, station after station, other people’s lives hurrying quickly by, time snaps from the heavily laden br...
Exhalation
March 30, 2023 14:00 - 1 minute - 1.21 MBExhalation Tonight I opened the window, stepped out, onto the terrace, and heard the last of day and life, passing in the climb and rush of a car, as it struggled up the hill, coughing, spluttering poison into the fragrant mournful evening air, I turned back away from sadness, to the twilit garden, the path of light to spring, looked up to an Easter moon, and higher still to the stars of early evening, for I saw a net of light and myths ...
The Shadow Lion
March 29, 2023 15:00 - 49 seconds - 612 KBThe Shadow Lion Like a roar winter pounces, the clouds of March torn asunder, in ragged edges of petal, pearls, steel and grey, for hail bombards the treetops, the fields and edges, abandoned towns, frozen in emptiness, across the cold of dawn and day. For April hides behind distant mountains, her sunlight, shattered in splintered shards of ice, and rain, for spring is held in winter’s grip, the call of east and wind, until her dream...
Cold (and blossoming)
March 28, 2023 15:00 - 1 minute - 905 KBCold (and blossoming) Cold is the frost returning, across the blossoms of early April, falling in flakes of ice upon the frozen hardened ground, for the wind still whispers across the morning silence, beneath the tree tops, standing motionless, in ancient times profound. As above their age and wisdom, the sullen skies cover new life, in cloaks of steel and grey, as dawn wraps the sun in invisible songs of springtime, as hope rises from the ...
Does?
March 26, 2023 16:00 - 35 seconds - 424 KBDoes? Does the moon rise or does he sleep, slipping from the heavens in months to keep, for as the cold pressed stars, turn in myths across the skies, the earth is hushed into stillness, her dreams, enclosed in winter’s eyes, And so tonight above the silver the rime of frost, over church, steeple and field, to succumb to sleep and dreams, I cannot but wait for morning light to yield. Feel free to contact me. Be nice to know who my audience is...
Coming home (for your love tonight)
March 25, 2023 17:00 - 57 seconds - 705 KBComing home (for your love tonight) He’s coming home, the day opening in skies of springtime blue, he’s coming home across the distance, calling your name, falling into the loving arms of you. For it’s been a long time, since the wind blew as it did today, the sun and cloud chasing each other in joy, in laughter, for he’s coming home, coming home, coming back this way. And you know how spring is blossoming? With every tree, every life, lifti...
With Butterfly Wings
March 22, 2023 16:00 - 34 seconds - 506 KBWith butterfly Wings Spring awakens, in butterfly wings the slow lift of morning, the thinning clouds, across eastern songs and skies, the earth exhales, birds soar with life, space, with wind colourful cloud, blushing billowing, bursting, blossoming dreams life and summer- time Winter hides, waiting. Ferociously. Feel free to contact me. Be nice to know who my audience is and perhaps you can suggest some further topics or themes for my writing! A...
A hushed breath of snow…
March 21, 2023 16:00 - 14 seconds - 226 KBSnow A hushed breath of morning snow, awakens the hope for spring. For who knows where the winds may blow, that tomorrow’s dreams may bring? Feel free to contact me. Be nice to know who my audience is and perhaps you can suggest some further topics or themes for my writing! And do give me feedback! [email protected]
Into the Grey…
March 19, 2023 15:00 - 27 seconds - 422 KBInto the grey… Out of the night into the early, the morning, the cold, the lifting dark, and fading dawn and grey, the first nod, of daffodils, hints at rain and spring, for the daughter of summer still sleeps amongst the silence, dreaming of kisses of sunlight, and the opening birth of May. Feel free to contact me. Be nice to know who my audience is and perhaps you can suggest some further topics or themes for my writing! And do give me feedback! p1964k...
Speak
March 18, 2023 14:00 - 1 minute - 761 KBSpeak Speak, and hold your silence to listen in return; Speak, and hear your words, in someone else’s heart, Speak, and understand the source of your own, Speak, what is in your mind, Listen, closely, to the words, different to your own, Listen, to where the words of other’s have come from, Listen, to understand, even if you disagree, Write words that you can lean on, Write words, that cast no shadows on what can still b...
Light (holding on to love)
March 17, 2023 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.2 MBLight (Holding on to Love) It’s thin here, the daylight and air, not missing you, from where I am looking, where you left to go away, ‘cause I feel you standing beside me, right there, right now, like it was yesterday You see the sun is rising, like a big ball of love across the morning tides and sea, as if the sunlight in your hair never went away, as if you didn’t leave behind your heart that was in me. Looking back across the wind th...
Night
March 16, 2023 16:00 - 36 seconds - 451 KBNight Dawn thins, with invisible brushes of light and sky, the clouds luminous islands shimmer between the shadows of night and morning’s awakening eye, and below in the city, street lights flicker, cars chase the quickening passage the hurrying of time, though silent is the bell tower, above the market the queues of rooks upon the rooftops, black as night, hidden, and as blind. Feel free to contact me. Be nice to know who my audience is an...
Twin Stars
March 13, 2023 16:00 - 36 seconds - 465 KBTwin stars The two are above, the night, the twilight, shadows of the fading past, the afterglow of daylight fading fast, for it’s a long way home, upon the winding and empty country lane, a long way into the distance, ‘afore I see you again. And as the night draws charcoal and slate across the evening skies, I’ll keep journeying homewards until I see again the sunlight, of your smiling, morning eyes. Feel free to contact me. Be ni...
I awakened
March 12, 2023 16:00 - 32 seconds - 435 KBI awakened this morning, to a light falling of skies, with thoughts of life, amidst flurries of grey and snow, for dawn lay still sleeping hidden behind the clouds of grey and doubt, for Spring, she lay sleeping, the birds hushed, and silent, as only the wind listening, to her breathing soft and gentle, only the wind can wait for Spring and know. Feel free to contact me. Be nice to know who my audience is and perhaps you can suggest some furt...
Daylight and Blue
March 11, 2023 17:00 - 58 seconds - 785 KBDaylight and Blue Daylight and blue, morning skies lifting the grey, I’m thinking of you, I’m leaving now, closing the dawn, taking my eyes to the road, missing you more, The morning sun’s dancing, on the pathway ahead, I’d thought I’d stay for longer, but you let me go instead, I can see in the distance, your smile coming my way, it’s been a long time I’ve seen you, since I walked through this way, there’s an oak on the corner, above the ...
She Knows
March 10, 2023 16:00 - 2 minutes - 1.61 MBShe knows… She knows I left this morning, out of the door, along the path, across the garden, walking the avenue, the moon was up, the sky, low, clouds chasing the tails of winter, for forgotten, is the shadow of yesterday the falling memory of winter snow, The house lights were blinking, busy with awakening kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms, whilst outside, I walked, she watched me, listening to the wind, catching my thoughts, ready to meet me,...
Storm!
March 09, 2023 17:00 - 53 seconds - 701 KBStorm Storm winds, seas and skies, a single crow barks, cries, cries, against the dawn, wings flapping, cawing blindly standing alone, in the rising floods and Easter tides. And here, leagues and miles, from the wave tossed turbulence of coast and shore, the trees bend, twist, and turn, as early March crashes in tides, invisibly upon roof, town, wood and morn. For though they shake and tremble, from the blast holding safe, the still sleeping ...
Before (the flood)
March 08, 2023 16:00 - 1 minute - 861 KBBefore (the Flood) Before the flood, the pouring evening, the dancing silhouettes of falling rain, before the rooftops glisten, before the gutters gurgle, before the puddles blink and simmer with invisible needles of a boiling, bursting schism of splintering sky, take a walk beneath the wind beneath the beaten smoothness of the steel grey of clouds, feel the wind gathering in invisible knots in the fisted hands of trees, the stone flight s...
Ruins
March 06, 2023 16:00 - 52 seconds - 674 KBRuins And tonight the stars are deep in the March dark and cold, the distant skies, sparkling, each in diamonds of time, yet still in the heavens, of the past that winter continues to tightly hold. For beyond and above, what lies below, across the forest the edges, shimmering in blues, opalescent and silver greys, the abandoned rooftops, the crooked, sagging, and unanswered telephone lines, the church steeple, points at the clock the...
The Last Dark
March 05, 2023 15:00 - 21 seconds - 266 KBThe Last Dark In the last dark, of peace and morning, beneath an empty black of sky, the moon slips from the fading heavens, with dawn so lovely through his weeping, tearful and smiling eyes. Feel free to contact me. Be nice to know who my audience is and perhaps you can suggest some further topics or themes for my writing! And do give me feedback! [email protected]
Travelling (Home)
March 04, 2023 15:00 - 2 minutes - 1.43 MBTravelling (home) Travelling back, to a place I used to call home, listening to old music, guitar and voices, bringing me back, from feeling alone Outside, the darkness is closing, inside, I’m sitting on a train, rushing, hurrying, passing me by, watching it all For it seems a while since I’ve come through this way, left a few tears since then, under this forgotten sky, maybe I left to forget, only now to remember, the passing of what was ...
Estuary
March 03, 2023 15:00 - 1 minute - 804 KBEstuary (of tears and tide) End of the river, the opening sea, patterns of grey and silver, clouds upon the face of skies, smiling infinitely, as light connecting bridges, reflecting, slow ships, slip sides, of channels, squiggles of rivers, and steel straight lines of canals, crooked docks, reaching, stretching cranes and harbours, patches of green, yellow and brown, tapestried industrial landscapes in between, the crouching grey of to...
I listened (to the message of rain)
March 02, 2023 16:00 - 1 minute - 1.12 MBI listened I listened to the rain, at dawn, falling, falling, against the rooftop window, a thousand needles of light hurtling from the sky, the clouds, the pressing blackness of a fading night, drowning the empty dreams of yesterday, in puddles of reflections, what might and once have been, now upon the thundered ground, And so I sat still and listened, again to a small breath of life, drifting, a series of thoughts, passing acros...
Driving Home (to you)
March 01, 2023 16:00 - 1 minute - 973 KBDriving home (to you) Darkness fell it was early tonight, with rain and wind sweeping in from the North, driving home in the early twilight. And between the blinking lights on the road to you, the heavy darkness, of evening driving out, of the fading blue But the traffic’s heavy, on the road ahead, stacked up cars signals changing so quickly from green to stop and red. Another flood of rain the wipers struggling against the downpour,...
Low Tide
February 28, 2023 17:00 - 18 seconds - 266 KBLow tide Here, I can walk across the sea, only sand, sky and me, how long until the waves do come, and bring me home to thee? Feel free to contact me. Be nice to know who my audience is and perhaps you can suggest some further topics or themes for my writing! And do give me feedback! [email protected]
Snow (and blossom)
February 27, 2023 16:00 - 44 seconds - 629 KBSnow and blossom February blusters, her wind shifts from West to Northeast, bringing snow and frost to freeze January’s heart away, And March waits, hidden, in the sky topped branches of trees, watching patiently as the wind blows the darkness from the last of October’s leaves, for now there are snow drops amongst the drifts of white, even whilst Orion, steps across the skies, spring still sleeps in May time dreams, for April waits b...
As if the light…
February 26, 2023 13:00 - 24 seconds - 305 KBAs if the light… As if the light has turned, inside and out, the stars have become birds, in wings upon the morning, skies of rising daylight blue, and midnight in constellations, have become tear drops of frozen sunlight, caught forevermore, in the early morning dew. Feel free to contact me. Be nice to know who my audience is and perhaps you can suggest some further topics or themes for my writing! And do give me feedback! [email protected]
High Street
February 25, 2023 14:00 - 1 minute - 1.22 MBHigh Street Shops, like old teeth, yellowing now, fading smiles, like dawn on a winter day, boarded up, shutters down, people giving’ up just walking around, no conversations, nobody got the time, leaning, against broken doors, no reason, just time, A few stores are open, long shadows stretching outside, dust and memories, what’s left of good times, high is the low, and low is the outgoing tide. A dog scratches, on the sidewalk, the ba...
S-P-R-I-N-G
February 24, 2023 06:00 - 1 minute - 989 KBS-P-R-I-N-G Suddenly, so suddenly that the sky appears to blink spring appears, lifting the lengthening light across the day, as if summer rides across the dusk, as if the sunlight hours have always been, soft and gentle, not a wind stirs not a wind whispers through the empty trees, all is silent, all is hushed, in the middle distance, where the cool of shadows of winter gather under the rising moon beyond the forest, the beach, the m...
Quiet (New Day)
February 19, 2023 16:00 - 2 minutes - 2.11 MBQuiet (New Day) Sitting with the window open, the earth hushed, still, I can hear a scatter of birdsong in colours of sunlight, yet to be blessed by the dawn of today. The first breath of morning slips through the ripple of drawn curtains, from across the garden, beyond the stream, the orchards, the edge of forest, to the broken ridge of sky, daylight awakens in light pastel blues, with gossamer threads of cloud and grey. Inside, all is still. Everyone sleeps, I listen to the silence gro...
She Sleeps
February 18, 2023 12:00 - 1 minute - 1.11 MBShe sleeps She sleeps holding night in her hands, still, in her lap, her breathing soft, rocking gently, silently, upon the train, as night passes in glowing, glimpses of light, whilst outside, the rushing shadows, race and hurry, with time herself passing by, but so still she listens, and dreams, the evening long, the song of her journey, longer, resting the twilight of a passing day, and in those preciousness of memories, lifted almost t...
Messages
February 16, 2023 16:00 - 58 seconds - 822 KBMessages I looked up this morning, and saw the moon descending, in slips and rolls across the windswept storms, seas and skies, blinking, watching, wondering, behind the clouds of curiosity’s eyes, for whilst against a proud and tall sycamore tree I stood, limbs astride, branches extending to the thundering, roaring, heavens high above, a single seed of passing autumn, fell, in twirls, turns and whispers, onto my outstretched hands, and for a...
Pathways to the Moon
February 15, 2023 16:00 - 48 seconds - 585 KBPathways to the moon Above the hidden the stars, high beyond the whispering tops of trees, the moon slipped between the clouds of midnight, and spread diamonds of constellations in their thousands upon the silver the branches of yesteryear’s leaves, For as I travelled, along the moonlit, the pathways, hidden in winter, the darkness, dreaming of the light, airs and perfumes of a still and sleeping spring, I saw glimpses of summer time, in t...