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Debbie Smyth

Bright day in Canary Wharf

Canary Wharf, London, July 2021 – Copyright Debbie Smyth, 25 July 2021 Posted as part of Silent Sunday …

Rising through the fog

The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve. On their blotter of fog the trees Seem a botanical drawing – from Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath read more Early […]

-Yorkshire

Count

A flight of 199 steps takes you up from the harbour to St Mary’s Church and Whitby Abbey, giving great views of the town and coastline. References to the steps […]

-Sweden

Trees along the city street

The trees along this city street, Save for the traffic and the trains, Would make a sound as thin and sweet As trees in country lanes… – from City Trees […]

-Yorkshire

Recommending no argument with the harpooner

Whitby, July 2021 Now over to all of you. Do come and join us in our Saturday six-word musings. I’ll admit that many of us openly break the numeric rule […]

-Kent

A moment’s rest

Margate, Kent, July 2021 Copyright Debbie Smyth, 23 July 2021 Posted as part of Weekend B&W and Weekend Street …

-London

Among the lemon trees

The little path that winds down along the slope plunges through cane-tufts and opens suddenly into the orchard among the moss-green trunks of the lemon trees. – from The Lemon […]

-Turkey

Where dark shadows lie

Bright is the earth where the dark shadows lie, Cast by the beams of a glittering sky. Praise for the shadows when earth days are done; For the darker the […]

-London

A place for love

Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better. I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a […]

-Hertfordshire

Slabs of gold and brown

A sleeper, they used to call it— … like coffin lids, those leftover slabs, their new-sawn faces turning gold and brown … – from Sleepers by David Black read more […]