Monday, 14 October 2024

PLACID UNEASE... (My new poem about a Björn Bernström painting...)

 Placid Unease…

(An appreciation of Björn Bernström’s painting…)



A watercolour sky hovers above a shadowy dark

Community, its chimneys, poles and wires

Mere silhouettes, as a low sun, amber and seductive

Seeps like fire through windows, reflected in pallid form

Upon the streets, post rain perhaps and glistening…


An uneasy silence pervades the foreground stark,

As black cloud spoils the sky’s rouge like coals on fires,

Easing to placid creams and a weak blue, unobtrusive. 

And although no-one treads the paths, maybe post-storm,

Somehow I feel I am there, watching, dreaming, listening…


Pete Ray

14th October 2024…

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