Outdoor Poetry and other things.

I was at a 'seminar' in Scotland the other day - called Leading Edge. It is where lots of people from the areas of environmental education , get together and get shown 'new' ideas and also exchange ideas. They are always great fun apart from a serious learning forum, and we end up doing all sorts of things. This year's theme was 'Water, Water everywhere..'

The first session of the morning was a talk from a poet, who showed us five photographs - all with watery themes, and when we saw each photo we had to write down a word, or phrase or feeling -something - which came to mind when we looked at the photo. We all ended up with five lines of writing. When I looked at mine altogether I suppose you could say 'they came out as a poem'

Misty tranquility and solitude

Ripples over rocks ground down over time

Green lagoon of deep seawater

Waterfall of sparkling white

Hidden treasures of delight

Another workshop had us outside to do some creative writing and one of the ones I came up with was:

Raucous Rooks in the rookery

Calling and cawing and cursing

the cold wind which rocks

the new nests they are trying to construct.

Please leave a comment and tell me what you think!