Author: Daniel Greenwood
Landscape photographer with a focus on woods and trees, fungi, and macro photography
Photography: The Carpathians, Romania
The Cheek Mountains, Transylvania
Poetry: House of herons
Imagine if swifts flew through
the empty tunnels of the underground,
if herons trod through the house of commons,
if nightingale sang from the stands
of the Oval, just imagine
what people would say
I don’t think they’d notice.
Maybe the politicians would shriek
and shrivel up in their seats
calling war, terror, personnel error!
‘Imagine! If a big eel stalking
egret could get in here
anyone can and anyone will.’
Herons: aspiring terrorists,
I always knew there was something
dodgy about them.
© Daniel James Greenwood 2015
Photography: The Bavarian Alps
Poetry: The valleys and hills
The diptera’s wings
the low boil of an aircraft
the scribbling of this pen
on this paper
and the flutter
of the opposite page.
All that is without sound:
the valleys and hills
the glaciers created
the small spots
of trees in leaf
in the bright fields
the white butterfly
searching golden grasses
nettles and even me
for somewhere
to scatter its seed
© Daniel James Greenwood 2015
For John Corr of Mayo, Eire
Poetry: Reed warbler
Reed warbler song
etched with green daggers,
elongated spears of leaves,
deep in the shadowy murk of
wet stems and skins:
a songburst like a child’s
rattle, but just one phrase
breaks into the alder-
leaden air, into willow bows,
extended over a pond fed by the
Regent’s Canal.
© Daniel James Greenwood 2015
Poetry: Great tit
Gathered from the grass, it was
robbed from the box
early by the cat
and toyed with in
the clover.
Tentatively he picks it up
in his hand and climbs the
tree to put the baby bird back.
© Daniel James Greenwood 2015
Poetry: The ice fields
Crock and clenk!
The sound of ice on ice,
crack! Her toes breaking
shards, bergs, islands
that slide off into an ocean
of brown mud and field
water, the falling sun
caught, frozen in the rink
of rainfall captured and
exhibited like some
petty show of power.
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