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    Kaleidoscope
    Kaleidoscope
    Kaleidoscope
    Ebook105 pages38 minutes

    Kaleidoscope

    By Elizabeth Love

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    This is a lovely collection of poems consisting of observations of nature, reminiscences, views on topical matters and everyday subjects, experiences, sensations, ideas and emotions; a true and fascinating profile of a country loving person. The reader will immediately be able to identify with these subjects and appreciate the sentiments so clearly expressed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArtemis Publishers Ltd
    Release dateFeb 16, 2012
    ISBN9781780690551
    Kaleidoscope
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    Elizabeth Love

    Elizabeth Love has found a niche with her imaginative writing about Cumbria with first, a collection of short stories called 'Time Lapse' and second, 'Kaleidoscope, a poetry profile': a comprehensive book of poems describing creatures in the wild as well as domestic, the countryside around where she lives plus personal reflections. This latest publication, set in the picturesque village of Wetheral a few miles out of Carlisle, will hold the reader's interest with its simplicity, drama and romance.

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      Kaleidoscope - Elizabeth Love

      Foreword

      Kaleidoscope is not a pretentious collection of poems. They are vignettes, told simply, but covering a wide variety of rural subjects including well observed descriptions of landscape, people and events – the latter either local or national.

      Elizabeth Love has an eye and feeling for place and there are colourful narrative passages of Lakeland Life and Scenes, e.g. the Ploughman and the Rescue. There are some meticulous details of the natural world.

      Tentative, almost fragile drawings, by the author illustrate the text.

      She uses variation of meter, blank verse; intermittent rhymes and staccato couplets stress the urgency in Binns Sale. Sometimes she breaks into prose.

      Kaleidoscope is a worthy title for a local anthology-Cumbrian Reflections of some charm.

      Mary E Burkett

      The Promise Of Spring

      Come soon, spring, soon, so that we may see

      The budded hedgerows and blossom on the cherry tree

      Blow out, cold winds, till all their force is spent

      And let through, the warming rays of sun, resplendent

      That first, we see appear, the heralders of spring

      The flake white snowdrop, golden crocus bursting

      The sapling growing outwards to maturity

      And tender stalks of rhubarb, there will surely be

      Migraters re-appearing to greet each breaking day

      Get out of bed, it’s spring they seem to say.

      And I will ride to Wetheral Green again

      To wander in the wooded glade and leafy country lane

      The trees are prettiest there when first unfolding

      Flowerets and myriad bunches in miniature unveiling

      Foliaged filigree, the birch, in finest webs of lace

      And sticky chestnut buds, like fluted fans to grace

      While down by the river, nature’s flowers abound

      The Celandine, Aconite, Bluebell and incessant sound

      Of running water, lit here and there by filtering light

      And the Green, a silhouette by the drawing in of night.

      A Little Piece of Heaven – Carlisle Cemetery

      Patterns everywhere; patterns within patterns

      Patterns in forms and colours

      Geometric, haphazard and three dimensional patterns

      In paths, avenues, borders, trees and flowers.

      Inside this large enclosure, stones, like guardians

      Mark the passage of the years, as milestones along the road

      Reaches – which go out beyond the sea of time.

      Here, through these circuitous cinder tracks

      The garland bearers seek their piece of hallowed ground

      Intangibly salving the living and the dead

      Where truth is in abiding love and memory

      And thatch of lives are bound in secret union.

      I feel and watch the glory of all nature here

      As rebirth stalks the enmity of winter

      Winning through in stealthy generation. Over all

      To lay a flowery flush of yellow come Epiphany

      Cascades in intricacies on every bough and branch

      Symmetrically, the cultured borders line the avenues

      Where now, cathedral high, the walks are canopied

      While everywhere, the grossness of majestic evergreens

      Tower in sharp relief of muter tones.

      A masquerade of roses throughout the summer days

      Flush into autumn’s glowing shades

      And frost’s furry fingers touch and breezes blow

      Flutterings, scattered on the verdant floor, where

      Nuts and needles, crabs and acorns, seeds

      And salvaged leaves are hammock-slung and wheeled

      In trundled barrow loads along the routes.

      My diary notes those halcyon days of painting flowers

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