Kaleidoscope
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This is a lovely collection of poems consisting of observations of nature, reminiscences, views on topical matters and everyday subjects, experiences, sensations, ideas and emotions; a true and fascinating profile of a country loving person. The reader will immediately be able to identify with these subjects and appreciate the sentiments so clearly expressed.
Elizabeth Love
Elizabeth Love has found a niche with her imaginative writing about Cumbria with first, a collection of short stories called 'Time Lapse' and second, 'Kaleidoscope, a poetry profile': a comprehensive book of poems describing creatures in the wild as well as domestic, the countryside around where she lives plus personal reflections. This latest publication, set in the picturesque village of Wetheral a few miles out of Carlisle, will hold the reader's interest with its simplicity, drama and romance.
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Kaleidoscope - Elizabeth Love
Foreword
Kaleidoscope is not a pretentious collection of poems. They are vignettes, told simply, but covering a wide variety of rural subjects including well observed descriptions of landscape, people and events – the latter either local or national.
Elizabeth Love has an eye and feeling for place and there are colourful narrative passages of Lakeland Life and Scenes, e.g. the Ploughman and the Rescue. There are some meticulous details of the natural world.
Tentative, almost fragile drawings, by the author illustrate the text.
She uses variation of meter, blank verse; intermittent rhymes and staccato couplets stress the urgency in Binns Sale. Sometimes she breaks into prose.
Kaleidoscope is a worthy title for a local anthology-Cumbrian Reflections of some charm.
Mary E Burkett
The Promise Of Spring
Come soon, spring, soon, so that we may see
The budded hedgerows and blossom on the cherry tree
Blow out, cold winds, till all their force is spent
And let through, the warming rays of sun, resplendent
That first, we see appear, the heralders of spring
The flake white snowdrop, golden crocus bursting
The sapling growing outwards to maturity
And tender stalks of rhubarb, there will surely be
Migraters re-appearing to greet each breaking day
Get out of bed, it’s spring
they seem to say.
And I will ride to Wetheral Green again
To wander in the wooded glade and leafy country lane
The trees are prettiest there when first unfolding
Flowerets and myriad bunches in miniature unveiling
Foliaged filigree, the birch, in finest webs of lace
And sticky chestnut buds, like fluted fans to grace
While down by the river, nature’s flowers abound
The Celandine, Aconite, Bluebell and incessant sound
Of running water, lit here and there by filtering light
And the Green, a silhouette by the drawing in of night.
A Little Piece of Heaven – Carlisle Cemetery
Patterns everywhere; patterns within patterns
Patterns in forms and colours
Geometric, haphazard and three dimensional patterns
In paths, avenues, borders, trees and flowers.
Inside this large enclosure, stones, like guardians
Mark the passage of the years, as milestones along the road
Reaches – which go out beyond the sea of time.
Here, through these circuitous cinder tracks
The garland bearers seek their piece of hallowed ground
Intangibly salving the living and the dead
Where truth is in abiding love and memory
And thatch of lives are bound in secret union.
I feel and watch the glory of all nature here
As rebirth stalks the enmity of winter
Winning through in stealthy generation. Over all
To lay a flowery flush of yellow come Epiphany
Cascades in intricacies on every bough and branch
Symmetrically, the cultured borders line the avenues
Where now, cathedral high, the walks are canopied
While everywhere, the grossness of majestic evergreens
Tower in sharp relief of muter tones.
A masquerade of roses throughout the summer days
Flush into autumn’s glowing shades
And frost’s furry fingers touch and breezes blow
Flutterings, scattered on the verdant floor, where
Nuts and needles, crabs and acorns, seeds
And salvaged leaves are hammock-slung and wheeled
In trundled barrow loads along the routes.
My diary notes those halcyon days of painting flowers