Saturday, 21 October 2017

Week Two - Life Is Beautiful

 Day Eight

Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017 : Life Is Beautiful























a delicious freedom
wearing a summer sarong
life is beautiful

Day Nine 




windows of a soul
pleading for a walk and run
chasing phantoms in the park  


 Day 10





a great artist
can touch everyone
moments of pure joy

Day 11

 


she watches him leave
missing him already
another lonely night


Day 12




 

winter sunset
pink and pale
amongst the tangled dark



Day 13




 

a mug of cocoa
woolly socks and a log fire
 the wind howls outside







 Day 14




 

weekly church service
coughing drowns the parson's saw 
they think of sunday lunch

Day Seven

Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life Is Beautiful
















bears love the winter
frolicking in the snow
big bundles of fur

Friday, 20 October 2017

Day Six

Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life Is A Beautful

 


wild winter waves
a surfer knows no seasons
hail rain or shine

Thursday, 19 October 2017

Day Five

Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life Is Beautiful 



the trees are bare now
let's take a long bus ride 
follow the sun

Wednesday, 18 October 2017

Day Four

Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life Is Beautiful



he invents a game
to spare his child the horror
of the holocaust
life is beautiful a film
of love and sacrifice

Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Day Three

Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life is Beautiful






remembering this mood
paris so beautiful 
twas a special time
time of my youth and first love
it will remain in my heart

Day Two

Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life Is Beautiful


Matisse


colours of summer
geraniums and gold fish
dazzling in pink