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Janey...

Ruby-red rowans,

birches dripping diamond drops 

greet our wedding-walk

Helen...

After so much heat

Rain should feel welcome and fresh

Not this heavy damp.

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Janey...

Cutting the hedges

now it's just the two of us -

the fledglings have flown

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Helen

Unmistakable –

Yellow leaves amid dark green,

Chill in morning air.

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Janey...

A pink summer-dawn,

a haziness, the season

drawing to a close

Helen...

 Deliciously cool

These mornings with their bright skies 

Full of shouting birds

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Janey...

And after the rain

the tired earth sighs a grateful 

breath...

a blackbird sings

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Janey ...

After the eclipse,

trees still dapple the dry earth

and the white birds call

Helen...

Strange signs this summer:

Loud gulls wheeling overhead 

Miles from any sea.

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Helen...

Warm blue evening sky.

Cloud shapes- shoals of dolphins, fish,

Make my tired heart leap.

Janey Thompson...

Golden late summer,

the parched earth cries out for rain,

gulls cry overhead

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Against the blue sky,

defiantly in the day,

waning gibbous moon

Helen...

Pale cornflower clouds

Wrap the pink echinaceas 

In late summer shawls.