March 8, 2026 at 7:28 PM
What wonders there are to see, in pond and wood, in daylight, or darkness. #lightindarktimes #21NightsofYule
Finally got to #WinterAtSizergh this afternoon. Though we'd missed booking for after-dark entry, it was pretty magical even by daylight.
December 19, 2024 at 10:33 PM
What wonders there are to see, in pond and wood, in daylight, or darkness. #lightindarktimes #21NightsofYule
Night Five, 2023: this was still one of the loveliest things I've ever found. 😊💚 #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes 🌱
May you, at some point, happen upon a tiny accidental terrarium. A mossy world, nutrients, moisture, bottled up, stoppered with mud, going round and round in self-sustaining perpetuity. You hold in your hand the necessities of a simple life. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes 🍃🌱
December 5, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Night Five, 2023: this was still one of the loveliest things I've ever found. 😊💚 #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes 🌱
Nearly six months since Midsummer, the sun never further away, the turning so close. #lightindarktimes #21NightsofYule
December 10, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Nearly six months since Midsummer, the sun never further away, the turning so close. #lightindarktimes #21NightsofYule
Sixth Night, 2023: And *now* I can repost the crocheted cuteness, it actually being the right day and all... 😀 #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes #craft #yarnbombing #textileart #Christmas
Indulge in small acts of creative intervention as Winter trudges on with its grey baggage; a cheerful little snowperson listing to starboard, a crocheted tree, and a cuddly pudding might put a smile on someone's face who needs it. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
December 6, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Sixth Night, 2023: And *now* I can repost the crocheted cuteness, it actually being the right day and all... 😀 #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes #craft #yarnbombing #textileart #Christmas
Seventh Night, 2023. Magical snowy greetings, on this gale-force morning! One day, I may get to conjure another Snowqueen... ❄️✨❄️✨❄️ #lightindarktimes #21NightsofYule
Not a magical place, this, yet once, She of the Ice and Ivy passed this way, silent-footed, open-handed, snow swept by her skirts; leaving nothing behind her but a rosewater scent and the ringing of sleigh bells never heard here before or since. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
December 7, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Seventh Night, 2023. Magical snowy greetings, on this gale-force morning! One day, I may get to conjure another Snowqueen... ❄️✨❄️✨❄️ #lightindarktimes #21NightsofYule
Third Night, the First. No little friend brought in this year, yet. This Angle Shades came in on the Queen's Tears, Bilbergia nutans. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes #invertebrates 🐙 #houseplants
Christmas Cactus, brightening even the gloomiest of dull days with its furious mass of pink and red. You are what you eat, they say; and this little one took it to heart, belly and... beyond. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
December 3, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Third Night, the First. No little friend brought in this year, yet. This Angle Shades came in on the Queen's Tears, Bilbergia nutans. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes #invertebrates 🐙 #houseplants
Once, I heard someone say about starting our own traditions. A year on, and the times are no less sobering. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes #amwriting
Join me on a little perambulation through the darkening days to Yule with a kaleidoscopic scatter of brighter things for these sobering times. There won't be any method in this madness, though there will be leaves and trees and frost. And possibly memories of sunnier days.
December 3, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Once, I heard someone say about starting our own traditions. A year on, and the times are no less sobering. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes #amwriting
Eyes on the sky for a safer, sunnier day, and flit back here for Night Ten. #lightindarktimes
December 9, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Eyes on the sky for a safer, sunnier day, and flit back here for Night Ten. #lightindarktimes
Night Eight = Appreciate. Very talented folks are doing some particularly lovely advent calendars to follow along with this month, so do give yourself a little daily treat. Firstly, stunning playing-card treasures from @greyauk
#21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
#21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
December 8, 2023 at 11:38 PM
Night Eight = Appreciate. Very talented folks are doing some particularly lovely advent calendars to follow along with this month, so do give yourself a little daily treat. Firstly, stunning playing-card treasures from @greyauk
#21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
#21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
Each day is one grimly-soon dusk closer to the turning, one step towards the return of the light. While it's all still in the air between Holly and Oak, every sparkle of a decorated tree leads you onwards. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
December 12, 2023 at 11:56 PM
Each day is one grimly-soon dusk closer to the turning, one step towards the return of the light. While it's all still in the air between Holly and Oak, every sparkle of a decorated tree leads you onwards. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
Best not to follow the carriage, now. Mind the path back here for Seventh Night. #lightindarktimes
December 6, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Best not to follow the carriage, now. Mind the path back here for Seventh Night. #lightindarktimes
The globe pauses, teetering on stillness, a cycle almost closed. Yule again, and round it goes, the year and years unwinding and unwinding; and yet, look up! Unexpected wonder casts its nacreous glamour, our world still magical, in her moment. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
December 21, 2023 at 10:55 PM
The globe pauses, teetering on stillness, a cycle almost closed. Yule again, and round it goes, the year and years unwinding and unwinding; and yet, look up! Unexpected wonder casts its nacreous glamour, our world still magical, in her moment. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
But when they came to the court past the gate-tower, with its bartisans empty-windowed and sightless, they found flowers knocking at an unhinged door, the masonry straggled over by a rebellion of growth, and its people frozen into mossy stone... #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
December 17, 2023 at 11:29 PM
But when they came to the court past the gate-tower, with its bartisans empty-windowed and sightless, they found flowers knocking at an unhinged door, the masonry straggled over by a rebellion of growth, and its people frozen into mossy stone... #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
May you, at some point, happen upon a tiny accidental terrarium. A mossy world, nutrients, moisture, bottled up, stoppered with mud, going round and round in self-sustaining perpetuity. You hold in your hand the necessities of a simple life. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes 🍃🌱
December 5, 2023 at 11:14 PM
May you, at some point, happen upon a tiny accidental terrarium. A mossy world, nutrients, moisture, bottled up, stoppered with mud, going round and round in self-sustaining perpetuity. You hold in your hand the necessities of a simple life. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes 🍃🌱
Keep all eight of your feet on the ground, and weave your way back for Night Nine. #lightindarktimes
December 8, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Keep all eight of your feet on the ground, and weave your way back for Night Nine. #lightindarktimes
Time shaves away like a sharpened pencil, and suddenly it is eleven years since crossing the Bosphorus; not a loss, but time to return, memories ripe for refreshing. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
December 16, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Time shaves away like a sharpened pencil, and suddenly it is eleven years since crossing the Bosphorus; not a loss, but time to return, memories ripe for refreshing. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
They made me go to ballet, for seven years from the age of three, like forcing a bear to dance. Here's gratitude: I never have to do it again, and can now enjoy these silky accoutrements of torture as pretty things for lighter-footed souls. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
December 8, 2024 at 12:04 AM
They made me go to ballet, for seven years from the age of three, like forcing a bear to dance. Here's gratitude: I never have to do it again, and can now enjoy these silky accoutrements of torture as pretty things for lighter-footed souls. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
Some weeks since, the last backlit oakleaves shone like spun sugar, each sweet drop of passing summer held tight, letting go overdue with the frost's lateness. All gone now; all gone. Blanketless, the buds are sleeping. #21NightsOfYule #lightindarktimes
December 15, 2023 at 8:58 PM
Some weeks since, the last backlit oakleaves shone like spun sugar, each sweet drop of passing summer held tight, letting go overdue with the frost's lateness. All gone now; all gone. Blanketless, the buds are sleeping. #21NightsOfYule #lightindarktimes
Poor Mr Tumnus, forever petrified before the castle, awaiting the breath of Spring. Listen, though, dear ones - the lion's roar is just on the cusp of hearing as the longest night draws near. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
December 20, 2023 at 11:29 PM
Poor Mr Tumnus, forever petrified before the castle, awaiting the breath of Spring. Listen, though, dear ones - the lion's roar is just on the cusp of hearing as the longest night draws near. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
Shiny red and stripy, the last homegrown troops of Autumn, finally ready for kitchen duty. Sometimes, when you think something will never survive to fruition, you just haven't left it on the windowsill long enough. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
December 16, 2023 at 11:39 PM
Shiny red and stripy, the last homegrown troops of Autumn, finally ready for kitchen duty. Sometimes, when you think something will never survive to fruition, you just haven't left it on the windowsill long enough. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
Hedgerow abundance, rain-washed, ready to feed little mouths coming in from harsher climes. Three different berries in a few feet of hedgerow, warming souls with their colour in the grey days, filling bellies in the cold. #21NightsofYule #Lightindarktimes
December 11, 2023 at 12:06 AM
Hedgerow abundance, rain-washed, ready to feed little mouths coming in from harsher climes. Three different berries in a few feet of hedgerow, warming souls with their colour in the grey days, filling bellies in the cold. #21NightsofYule #Lightindarktimes
February 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
SHINE, Issue 2 launches March 15th...available worldwide.
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#poetrycommunity
#poetrylovers
#booklovers
#internationalcommunity
#lightindarktimes
#shinepoetry
#poetrycommunity
#poetrylovers
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March 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
SHINE, Issue 2 launches March 15th...available worldwide.
#shinepoetry
#poetrycommunity
#poetrylovers
#booklovers
#internationalcommunity
#lightindarktimes
#shinepoetry
#poetrycommunity
#poetrylovers
#booklovers
#internationalcommunity
#lightindarktimes
Step into the snow, an otherworld in itself, stopping time in its silent tracks. And wolves run unbounded again through white deserted streets, all everyday taint effaced, while sleighbells carry distant and icy-clear. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
December 18, 2023 at 7:23 PM
Step into the snow, an otherworld in itself, stopping time in its silent tracks. And wolves run unbounded again through white deserted streets, all everyday taint effaced, while sleighbells carry distant and icy-clear. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes