Calm

When beauty fills the eye and encases mind The will to put pen to pad is oft hard to find. The moment is too peaceful and perfect And words would but distract, From that which beckons calm to soul and ceasing to act. So instead I absorb; the moment passes by And is lost but …

The Whistling Thrush

Why were they called the Singing Mountains? Was it for the western birds, whose song filled the wide expanse from the Kahadlakh to the shores of the Björgrin peninsula? Was it for the east wind, caught up in currents which weaved to and fro through the green highland in composition? Or was it for another …