31. Inflamed

Bright and burning

with a desire to fire

the gasses hiss

and the flames get higher.

Like lip touched coals

(the vision of Isaiah)

a pyrotechnic poem

leaps from the pyre.

30. Heart of stone

Among the random pebbles

and glistening vibrant colours

this stone speaks.

It may resemble a heart

but it does not pulse,

it is fixed

until some passing rock

chips another facet

in its superficial hardness

or the roughage of arbitrary tides

smooth its surface against

its fellows.

How alike we are.

29. bystanders

Boulders stand at a distance

staring at the youth

dressed to impress

beyond the hedgerow.

Their weather-worn facets

the wrinkling of age and exposure

and centuries of standing still.

With a single eye the stare is returned

as the tower considers

it’s destiny.

28. peacock

A sun burst of dawning eyes

flaunted, regal, romancing –

the allure in azure shades

and tender ballet dancing.

27. Avebury's henge

Summer flirts on the chalk path -

a dusty hedge encompassing Avebury’s henge.

Five thousand summers have blessed this place

their footfalls on other mystic paths

through undiscovered stones,

buried by time,

beneath tourists daily feet.

26. aerodrome

From high vantage

the wing commander

scans for safe passage

as his legion

awaits command.

25. First sitting

Like Braille upon a page

or music on a stave

waiting to be read

the starling cacophony

sits in chorus

murmering.