Extracts from 'The Secret Garden of My Heart'

The Wye Valley
Today
the sun shone
misty
subdued
haunting
beautiful
and the Wye Valley trees
sang silent songs
joyful and sad
full of deep mystery
yearning and longing
till the tears came
slowly

Lost and found
in the dark green forest depths
in my heart
in my soul
Today
my heart leaped up
and flamed with painful joy
in the dark green forest depths
and always will

The Forest's Stillness
Between the forest's stillness
and the silence of the pooland beyond the winter's darkness waits a gentle spring

At the end of movement
stillness waits
and breathes a healing calm

At the end of words
silence speaks
and whispers quiet peace