SALISBURY LANDSCAPES POEM 1

There is little to be found without exploring, whether physically or metaphorically. So, we move to Salisbury Landscapes, having finished with the Historic City of Bath. As in a dream, we wondered through the fields and towards the stones of Stonehenge.

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“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.” Ansel Adams

Unbridled

Positioned at the fence there is little view,

But the wide space before us a hidden,

Meaning of metres and elongated murmurs,

Beside which we stand aloft and silent.

Looking upwards there is only blue expanse,

Nothing to stop us touching heaven itself,

Bordered in by nothing all is in our grasp,

A bright day with a promising future we behold.

There is nothing but God and us watching,

As the hedgerow makes its muted conversation,

Unheeded by the sun that seems to shine only,

For us in our hedonistic youth of understanding.

What is there to be found amongst the tall grasses?

A vole perhaps or a mouse of the field grappling,

With his own task of the day busy keeping to,

His schedule as we abandon ours in our travels.

“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.” Claude Monet