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A carpet of grass deft underfoot, like a huge grey blanket swathing the landscape, cold and bleak, enticing a quickened pace, Whistling wind wraps around me like a skeletons arms, teasing and beguiling me onwards toward a destination unknown, on its breath ride the whispers of forgotten lost souls. The moon peers down through a silken scarf of blackened clouds, Its knowing face smiling sinuously, as if luring ships to the rocks on a tempestuous sea, from its mouth fall beams of light that illuminate the hills and troughs ahead, like a procession of flickering lanterns on a majestic parade, Blackened gnarled trees seem to bow in respect as the coldness of the night permeates my core, their dark shapes appearing on the horizon, like tomb stones in some ancient graveyard. So among this swathing scene unfolding and with coat collar raised, I merge with the shapes and disappear into the folds of night.
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Oct 15, 2014
Oct 15, 2014 at 2:41 PM UTC
A walk on the Moors
A carpet of grass deft underfoot, like a huge grey blanket swathing the landscape, cold and bleak, enticing a quickened pace, Whistling wind wraps around me like a skeletons arms, teasing and beguiling me onwards toward a destination unknown, on its breath ride the whispers of forgotten lost souls. The moon peers down through a silken scarf of blackened clouds, Its knowing face smiling sinuously, as if luring ships to the rocks on a tempestuous sea, from its mouth fall beams of light that illuminate the hills and troughs ahead, like a procession of flickering lanterns on a majestic parade, Blackened gnarled trees seem to bow in respect as the coldness of the night permeates my core, their dark shapes appearing on the horizon, like tomb stones in some ancient graveyard. So among this swathing scene unfolding and with coat collar raised, I merge with the shapes and disappear into the folds of night.
Inspired by a walk on the moors, some years ago, on a cold and windy, winters night.
haydn-swan
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Oct 15, 2014
Oct 15, 2014 at 2:41 PM UTC
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