Thursday 23 September 2010

Silver.

Photograph: Jason Hawkes/Barcroft Media

Walking along an empty beach, the sand almost white, the sea silver as the sun slowly sinks on the horizon.

A line of Pelicans gliding across the crimson orb and then a sail-boat far off crosses from the other side.

As the sun sinks lower a dolphin breaks from the surface and dives again. Then another.

A moment of stillness as the ripples on the ocean settle and then a whale leaps from the depths, a vast spray of spume and then a mighty splash, the drops of water sparkling in the light of the sleeping sun and drifting slowly down as the surface once more goes still.

The droplets turn to snow flakes, falling in the thousands/millions and from the snow that lays on the sand roses start to shoot up and open, dark red roses and then from their centre a mighty tree begins to grow, reaching upwards and opening branches and leaves, dominating everything.

Parrots fly from the tree, hundreds of parrots flying in every direction, the branches and leaves begin to fly away and then the trunk of the tree splits and opens flying away too.

And there is Krissie, dancing, spinning.

She is dressed in blue silk and dancing, spinning, rising into the air, still spinning she rises.

Swans, their wings beating gracefully fly to her and still spinning she descends and walks toward me, she is holding a crystal on the palm of her hand.

She throws it into the sky and it shatters into countless tiny sparks that slowly fall and cover the now empty beach.

9 comments:

Dave said...

Take another one of the purple ones and lie down for a bit.

popps said...

Thank you Dave, don't worry - it's a targeted post.
The hint is in the title.

Mary said...

How dreamy and romantic.

I'm guessing that it must be your silver anniversary ... of the day you met?

Heartfelt best wishes for at least 25 more magical years!

Mx

popps said...

Correct Mary, first day, Central Park, Alex tagged along, tonight Loui tags along - he's probably the same age as Alex was.
Weird.

Anonymous said...

And speaking of Alex and the passing of 25 years, next May marks the first time I met Chris and Alex in Vancouver when you arrived for a six week stint at EXPO 86.

It was memorable.

Congrats again!

Mx

Janet Bianchini said...

Many congrats! Silver is a fabulous event.

Love the photo and your description above.

popps said...

Janet, the picture is not mine - it came from a series in the Guardian Newspaper.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/sep/21/aerial-views-of-new-york

popps said...

Mary - i remember you left a comment about Eat Pray Love a while back and i confessed ignorance.
I see the Guardian have a review today which begins....

Yawn, fidget, stretch. Peter Bradshaw is a reluctant passenger on Julia Roberts's interminable spiritual journey

Mary said...

Never heard of Peter Bradshaw but just finished reading his review in The Guardian. It is well-written and quite funny. [link below]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/23/eat-pray-love-review

I'm somewhere in the middle of the book and sometimes find it interesting but mostly just self-indulgent. The story is a true one of one year in the life of Elizabeth Gilbert. I looked up the real person portrayed by Javier Bardem and of course he is short with a grey beard and thinning hair. Sounds like Bardem doesn't it?

When I write my memoirs of my great escape to find my true self, I would like to be played in the movie version by Catherine Zeta-Jones and George Clooney as the love interest.

Having said that there are two powerful scenes in the movie and the book -- neither requiring Julia Roberts to act -- one by the Texan she meets at the Ashram and the other provided by Javier Bardem and his relationship with his son.

PS Won't go to see that Alice Creed movie -- sounds Yukkie!

Mx