Solar Eclipse

I have been kept unexpectedly busy this afternoon so I have not had time to blog all i wanted to blog...in fact it's past my hometime and i've got to start fighting my internet addiction and go home at hometime. I will part with a beautiful picture of the
eclipse, which was full in Turkey on the 29th.














From Africa





SOLAR - Phillip Hawkins

Suspended lion face
Spilling at the centre
Of an unfurnished sky
How still you stand,
And how unaided
Single stalkless flower
You pour unrecompensed.

The eye sees you
Simplified by distance
Into an origin,
Your petalled head of flames
Continuously exploding.
Heat is the echo of yourGold.

Coined there among
Lonely horizontals
You exist openly.
Our needs hourly
Climb and return like angels.
Unclosing like a hand,
You give for ever.