The Scene From Our Window

The Scene From Our Window

written by: Beverley Joughin-Robson

The dark-green, feathered baubles line
Or gather along the edges,
Rising gently into the distance,
Above emerald and golden-brown patches

The sun demands attention, moving
Gentle shadows across rectangles,
Resting, undisturbed by roaming cattle,
The divided farmland rises and falls.

The patchwork scene seems to multiply.
Beneath the blue-grey wisps of cloud-filled sky.
And from my window I admire the scene
In stillness, till life moves to intervene.

A passing flutter of white wings cross and are gone,
As the red kite floats calmly over the horizon.
A swarm of blackbirds, ink marks on the sky,
In rhythmic formation go passing by.

A rabbit statuesque beside the tree,
The dominant oak, years of history.
Its branches twist and stretch strangely,
From its heavy base and solidity.

There is a reluctance to leave this window, framed picture,
but the path beckons to open fields and adventure.

• About
• Latest Posts

Beverley Joughin-Robson

Beverley Joughin-Robson is a retired English teacher. She was born in Essex in 1960 and has been writing poetry since childhood. Her first collection, Life's Journey Through Poetry, is a culmination of poems collated over the years up till 2018, when her first grandchild was born and she retired. Now with the time to indulge in creativity, she enjoys writing and painting, and being with her grandchildren Mae and Jude. The second collection is similar in style but includes several poems about surviving Covid mixed with the more positive poems of the many walks enjoyed and other moments and memories from these very different two years. It also includes some of the paintings she completed, in response to her writing.

Latest posts by Beverley Joughin-Robson (see all)

• The Scene From Our Window - June 23, 2023