Dartmoor And Westcountry Photography

New Book of poems and images celebrating the landscape of Devon and Cornwall By Rachel Burch, limited edition of 100, signed by the author. Here are a few examples of the thirteen poems in the book:
GRENOFEN WOODS WALKHAM VALLEY, DARTMOOR
The soft welcome healed me
In this valley of sheltered dreams.

Time wound it’s way down muddy tracks
And flower streaked hedges shared my pain.

Rivers wove their pebbled course around me,
With every passing day my heart began to heal.

Now, slowly the oak greened night draws in ,
Owls call me to sleep as silvered words
rise to the star spangled sky.


WHITSANDS BAY CORNWALL
The hawk hangs in the air
A brown sear in the sky
Above the craggy cliffs here
Sea ripples endlessly like shot silk
Blue and green.

Behind the chapel of ancient dreams
The hawk dives down to the blue
Lost in the endless expanse of sparkle
The ocean of you reaches me at last.

It touches me as the songs of our heart pour to heaven.


POLZEATH CORNWALL
Gathered here amongst the hills of our hearts
The stones of us, our joy, hopes, history, dreams
Tumble out as words
Bold pebbles against the sandy shore.

Doubtful shadows creep around me
I feel their breath at my back
Their salt pricks my eyelids,
Pulsing, this circle of light, words, and laughter brings me back ,
This sweet belonging bears me away.

The streams and fields of us sing this landscape
The echo resounds around these walls
As our souls meet on the far silver shore.


TAVISTOCK WEIR
Moss bound footsteps lead me to the weir
Cold touches my cheeks mingling with the warmth inside,
Echoes of the night surround me, unspoken whispers linger on my lips.

The river at my feet flows on and through
My open heart pours sun dappled light against the sheen
Warmth comes flooding back across the cold hope of years.

Loves sunrise opens the sky -
My upturned face meets it’s warmth
As the glow moves gently in the deep waters below.


SNOW & GORSE TREE PLASTERDOWN DARTMOOR
The shadows of us fall away,
Opening portals within ourselves,
The joy of us, the song,
Fills us together.

We fall as one, our shadows unite,
Our sunrise opens across the sky
The landscape of us stretches out
As this dawn dampens our tears
To the silver sky.

Photographer: Rachel Burch

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