Words and Pictures

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there’s every shade of green here

pale limes through to darker sages

a watercolour wash panorama

painted across a lean paper-fold horizon,

it’s still cold for early April, 

a chill vainly grips our breath 

unwilling to give way

to the catkins and blossom that 

have started to colour-in the gaps,

a good friend of mine paints 

whilst I fumble with sketching pencils 

but I’m better with words

and impatiently abandon my

crude drawing effort to go to verse 

scribbling pell-mell in the margins,

we never try to look at each other’s work, 

with neither claiming prowess

there’s no need of that

it’s enough to steal away and enjoy

the quiet, the silent company

the knowing and the pleasure

of just spending time

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© Graham R Sherwood 04/23