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100 Orkney days of summer: September 2012

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Sunday, 30 September 2012. 88/100 ‘a ship of Irish monks’. We gave heads and tails of monkfish. To a ship of Irish monks. They gave us a blessing. Cleaner and brighter than a jumping salmon. From Trinity: Sailing to Greenland: Monkfish, George Mackay Brown, ‘Travellers’]. Posted by Sandra Davies. Labels: 100 days of summer. Saturday, 29 September 2012. 87/100 'languid as snowflakes'. Ropes glittered with night frost. The ship lingered, languid as snowflakes. Posted by Sandra Davies. Take my mouth, speak.

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100 Orkney days of summer: October 2012

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Friday, 12 October 2012. 100/100 For dragon eggs? Shall we open the door? What story, the old or the new? We have lived so long and so well. In our green fable. Shall we open the doors? From ‘Uranium 2’, George Mackay Brown, ‘Travellers’]. Posted by Sandra Davies. Labels: 100 days of summer. Alls well that ends well. Thursday, 11 October 2012. 99/100 The Westray monks. Sixteen walkers about the church,. Heads bare as stone,. Long striders, deep-voiced, rough-handed. They haven’t a sword between them.

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100 Orkney days of summer: 99/100 The Westray monks

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Thursday, 11 October 2012. 99/100 The Westray monks. Sixteen walkers about the church,. Heads bare as stone,. Long striders, deep-voiced, rough-handed. 8216;Brother wind, gentle sister raindrops’ –. That’s what they call this black whirl of storm. They haven’t a sword between them. Here they come, in procession. Demure and harmless as girls. V3, Twelfth-Century Norse Lyrics of Rognvald Kolson, Bard and Saint, George Mackay Brown, from Selected Poems 1954-1992]. Posted by Sandra Davies. 100 days of summer.

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100 Orkney days of summer: 90/100 The man from the shipwreck said

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Tuesday, 2 October 2012. 90/100 The man from the shipwreck said. 8216;We have seen stone clusters. Far south in Lewis, Wessex, Brittany.’. Withered soon in the circle of the hills. Twenty-sixth stone from Brodgar Poems, George Mackay Brown, 'Selected poems 1952-1992']. Posted by Sandra Davies. Labels: 100 days of summer. 3 October 2012 at 23:10. 4 October 2012 at 05:05. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Randoms writings, serials etc. Small responses to daily stimuli. 93/100 wi...

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100 Orkney days of summer: 91/100 And is silent still

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Wednesday, 3 October 2012. 91/100 And is silent still. What should I say. To this one, intruder and stranger? He had stood there two nights. And is silent still. From ‘The Golden door: Three kings, George Mackay Brown, 'Selected poems 1952-1992']. Posted by Sandra Davies. Labels: 100 days of summer. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Randoms writings, serials etc. Small responses to daily stimuli. Artwork: Prints, drawings, paintings. 100 days of summer. Alls well that ends well.

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100 Orkney days of summer: 98/100 Returning from Quoyloo brewery

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Wednesday, 10 October 2012. 98/100 Returning from Quoyloo brewery. 8216;Oh, she’ll be back. Is gold of our corn. She’s Orkney rain and spindrift .’. From ‘Gossip in Hamnavoe:. About a girl’, George Mackay Brown, ‘Travellers’]. No extra creativity about this one - just a September 1st shower over Hoy. Posted by Sandra Davies. Labels: 100 days of summer. Alls well that ends well. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Randoms writings, serials etc. Small responses to daily stimuli.

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100 Orkney days of summer: 95/100 A summer midnight

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Sunday, 7 October 2012. 95/100 A summer midnight. Orkney turns upon poles of light and darkness. A summer midnight, the north. Is red with the two lamps of dawn and sunset. The Northern Sky, from ‘Haiku for the Holy Places, George Mackay Brown, ‘Travellers’]. Posted by Sandra Davies. Labels: 100 days of summer. Alls well that ends well. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Randoms writings, serials etc. Small responses to daily stimuli. Artwork: Prints, drawings, paintings.

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100 Orkney days of summer: 94/100’ shadows-of-flame’

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Saturday, 6 October 2012. 94/100’ shadows-of-flame’. May the keeper of the fire. See a loaf on the table. And faces of travellers lit with welcome. And shadows-of-flame, in winter. From ‘The guardians’, George Mackay Brown, ‘Travellers’]. Posted by Sandra Davies. Labels: 100 days of summer. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Randoms writings, serials etc. Small responses to daily stimuli. Artwork: Prints, drawings, paintings. 100 days of summer. Alls well that ends well.

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100 Orkney days of summer: 96/100 Hill Runes

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Monday, 8 October 2012. The horsemen are red in the stable. With whisky and wrath. The petrol drinker is in the hills. From Hill Runes, George Mackay Brown, 'Selected poems 1952-1992']. Posted by Sandra Davies. Labels: 100 days of summer. 8 October 2012 at 14:31. Red with whisky and wrath. 8 October 2012 at 15:09. Thanks - were off to Orkney again tomorrow - theres a crime writers event on, include Denise Mina who I discovered in February and very much like. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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100 Orkney days of summer: 93/100 'with the bounty of salt and water.'

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Friday, 5 October 2012. 93/100 'with the bounty of salt and water.'. The fisherman holds a course clear of reef and crag. 8216;I will come soon to the well-built stone pier. 8211; wind in the sail – with the bounty of salt and water.’. From ‘The elemental stone’, George Mackay Brown, ‘Travellers’]. Posted by Sandra Davies. Labels: 100 days of summer. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Randoms writings, serials etc. Small responses to daily stimuli. 100 days of summer.