The smiling surf
You can see the white froth of the waves on a rough northern shore, looking like a white grin along...
Cretan KPIs – Key Penmanship Indicators – VII
I found this description of the stark Cretan landscape startlingly original, using good prose as a metaphor and incidentally giving...
Tide-rippled sea
Nicolson's book is as much about the sea as the land, and the tidal pull it exerted for centuries on...
Wave-worn boulders
An alliterative view of things water-worn over time. I have a burgeoning collection of sea-smoothed pebbles and fragments of glass...
The bounteous sea
In an age of over-fishing I like these two triologisms suggesting cornucopian fish stocks. Firstly, a reference to the brightness of...
An Antarctic tsunami
I loved the slowly growing momentum of this vast wave, though one has to hope it would never make landfall,...
Many-coloured sea
This simple line from a journal, a near haiku of beauty.
'The moon, a many-coloured sea and sky.' ...
It would have felt good
A persistent question when I read or think about the past, is 'how did they feel?' What was the tint...
Skull-like blankness
A blindingly white description of a sun-parched landscape. Elsewhere Leigh Fermor conjures another type of blankness, that of a face,...
Hollowed-out pineapples
Having had refreshing cool drinks out of hollowed-out coconuts, I like hearing of the equivalent in pineapples, and of course,...
Sea the colour
I love different ways of describing eyes, and colours, and this one allows some range in its definition. Blue or...
Peat-dark waves
A description of wild swans floating on the night sea. I like that Maxwell uses peat, a local material, to...
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