KAIROS HADITH
Near the shores of warm lapping waves The wind flows through the cypress trees And from beneath the pine needle covered ground Warm earth is collected to be kiln-baked, Colour-glazed And geometrically cut. In late summer, the gentle hills have Straw combed harvest ready fields. A landscape like warm air filled linen. Inside the little […]
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A gathering of people, strumming, singing, joking, every year for a folk fest. Stumbling into the next song but all are welcome to join. ‘Hey, you, come and join us.’ ‘What was the name of that last jig?’ ‘ “She was”. Or in Devonshire dialect “She be” ‘. “Or in Twickenham dialect, “One is” ‘. […]
The morning sun glistens on the still wet pavements….but this is no rainwater. Council workers arm themselves with hoses and wash the city’s effluent away, into the road, ready for the eager whirring road sweepers to take their fill. But they will not be sated. Sweet smells trickle through the peeling narrow streets; baking dough […]
San Sebastian – País Vasco / DONOSTIA – EUSKAL HERRIA After the hot sun had faded and melted beyond the horizon, a cool breeze swept in, and with it, mist. The smell of the air changed as I walked back from the city and suddenly my shirt felt very thin.
Welcome shade in the coconut grove At the foothills of the dusty, dry mountain range, presumably where the rare mountainous rainwater pools underground over millennia, lies an oasis. A small little village with modest mud two storey houses – now extended with modern buildings. a strange mix, seen from afar. The falaj, the water system, […]
I got into Istanbul airport at about 4am. I was stopping there before continuing my flight to the Gulf. I timed the flights so that I had ten hours to go round Istanbul. I booked the flight a week ago and simply didn’t have time to plan anything. So decided to go as the wind […]
You go all that way, Weary from the subcontinent’s humid heat Crammed into lop-sided buses, With just enough space to breathe. Still more hours travelling to the next depot __And then further, ____Deeper into the country, Leaving the safe tropical shore behind, Into the hot, silent and dusty expanse. Then as the darkness drops you […]
Down in the narrow streets and in the narrow bars they’re all crammed in drinking tinto and eating pinchos and coming up with glorious ideas: Like having their own country. Like independence from not one country but two! In those narrow streets they drape flags from their balconies. In those narrow streets they await the next annual […]
My journey started with a frenetic liaison at the BFI the night before. Conversation darted from Edward Hopper to Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Frank Lloyd Wright. A dash home in the dark, still thinking about all the things left unsaid, which also left me pondering my choice to travel alone. … Sunday. I rode the […]