The sun set behind Linlithgow Palace
It’s dying rays pleading across the freezing earth
A vain attempt to hold the dark at bay.
Its warming powers gone,
Light its only weapon,
Defeat was certain, but shed no tears,
For the seasons tides will turn again.
End of Days
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Thanks so much, very kind of you. I will try to make the time to do what needs doing. You have a lovely blog yourself 🙂
Beautiful post! Gorgeous capture of the sun rays!
Thank you Amy, I do love a good starburst of sunlight…..I love the golden light, even in its weak wintery form 🙂
I’m longing for the return from the underworld and trying hard to shed no tears.
Me too Gilly, all of a sudden. I feel I turned my back for a second and in swooped winter, and her shrunken days and bone chilling wind. I was walking yesterday in freezing cold sunlight reminiscing over the long warm evenings so recently passed…..and longing for their return! Soon I’ll settle into winters rhythm, but I’m not there yet 🙂
Great framing Seonaid!
Thanks, it felt like such a gift when I turned around and saw the sun perfectly dropping between the palace and the church…..nature can be so generous even as winter sets in 🙂
It’s always timing no?
I think we feel similarly about the coming of winter and desperately needing to believe that the light will return. Here is one of my poems in response: http://beautyalongtheroad.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/31/
Oh I definitely need to know the light and warmth will return……then I can relax a little and enjoy the unique delights of winter. This year it just feels very abrupt… the change from a warm golden autumn to a freezing dark winter !
I love the poem you wrote last year, and thanks for posting the link…..it’s perfect for how I’m feeling 🙂
Yes, we can find comfort in pictures and words… I have a feeling I’ll be doing a lot of it this winter.
Gorgeous words and shot!
Very kind Fi, it just feels as though autumn has ended abruptly and winter has arrived…..or perhaps I only just noticed 🙂
The denseness comes, the denseness comes, the denseness comes… and there goes my heart. Forgetting you feel… that your real… I toss you aside.
What is it that keeps me from seeing- feeling your heart; there’s nothing there. Unable to feel mine, I cannot feel yours, as they are one and the same. Easily forgotten along the way, as I carelessly go about my day, in the land of me.
Its so easy to crush you, really very easy to do. I give it no more thought than I would putting mayo onto a slice of bread.
I complain, continue to whine and blame, as the lost heart poster remains unclaimed.
Like to know the type of Camera
you use!
The picture should be made into
The sequence of the Seasons!!
The rhythm of wording come from
u’re Soul
If ever in the NewEngland are
look me up
Have a Happy thanksgiving
The Wilderness Pharmacist
Pax
I’m using a Canon 650d, and really am in love with what I can do with it 🙂
Thanks for the wonderful comments and compliments, it’s wonderful that you enjoyed the post. What a wonderful invitation, and Im always happy to hear from or even see blogging friends who are visiting Edinburgh 🙂
Well done. An ode to our coming winter. D
My exact intention, and I’m delighted you liked it. All of a sudden it feels like autumns over and the tiny short days of winter have arrived, along with a chilled wind from the North bringing the first snow flurries 🙂
Striking!
*gloat* But here we have summer acumin in.
Mind you, just lately it has been a-washin in, like a tide. We had torrents yesterday.
Thanks, I was delighted to spot the shot!
It’s been a really dry Autumn, thoughtfully raining mostly at night, so the leaves are sitting in wonderful crisp piles…..but I do envy your approaching summer…..feels a long way from here with our tiny shrunken days and crisp freezing temps 🙂
So poetic, Seonaid.
Can feel it all.
That’s the best compliment, to know I conveyed and you caught the emotions of watching the dying sun 🙂
Great shot =) Thanks for sharing
Thanks, it was a lovely gift to catch the setting sun in its last moments so beautifully framed by the ancient palace.
Quite beautifully expressed, Seonaid. (but I’m missing Summer already 🙂 )
Suddenly I am too Jo, the days have shrunk to tiny spaces in between the long nights and the temperatures have just as suddenly dropped away to freezing. I always forget about quite how short these winter days feel!