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fine art projects with painting, etching and stained glass, sales and commissions, studio updates via '8 minute poems' blog


November calling
Leaf-mould breathes the mist lattice, orange streetlight fingers the edges, the ground is sheathed not yet ready to be stripped
freyapayne5
Oct 20, 20241 min read


magnetic fish
This magnetic fish with the letter ‘l’, there when I went to clear out the abandoned toys. What use is just the letter ‘l’? They say they...
freyapayne5
Oct 19, 20241 min read


Beginning
Beginning is beyond the lonely and the empty. A footfall into patience a beckoning of hope a recommitment to blood flowing a reconnection...
freyapayne5
Oct 18, 20241 min read


My small act of resistance
My small act of resistance is to lie in the middle of the farm track at 6am, watch the wild sky and hold the fallen. the MOD momentarily...
freyapayne5
Oct 17, 20241 min read


our selective will/ apple harvest
Taken in hand, in the round, feeling for bruises. The ones not breached are snugged in paper, to grow ever sweeter. The ones lost to the...
freyapayne5
Oct 16, 20241 min read


infrastructure
i am along time away from my switchboard. Then memory pulses reconnection to your universe its a vivid slap like bringing breath to a...
freyapayne5
Oct 15, 20241 min read


It is just between me and my daughter
My daughter made it It sits on my mantlepiece It is just between me and my daughter strength is gifted through love a carved stick with a...
freyapayne5
Oct 14, 20241 min read


naked hands
our naked hands born to the quarry born to the piecing together of what we reach out to.
freyapayne5
Oct 13, 20241 min read


iridescence
Maybe we all have a layer of Iridescence hidden under skin. When you turn my body over, the rainbow will finally reveal.
freyapayne5
Oct 12, 20241 min read


Silence
At first, the pressure, like thumbs into eyeballs. Later softness; pace slowing, the releasing of rules.
freyapayne5
Oct 11, 20241 min read


Trickster
Grass Green is an itchy colour, a trickster. It won’t come politely to your side, always there, beyond noticing some days but in the...
freyapayne5
Oct 10, 20241 min read


Brimming
Brimming. Rim full. you never know what tension holds the whole.
freyapayne5
Oct 9, 20241 min read


fields
The fields stretch out and suggest no path. receiving you, they spread your silence across their green.
freyapayne5
Oct 8, 20241 min read


I am not my State.
I am not my State. skin-state porous, mindscape particulate lost and [con]fused in this crowd looking at the ground when they shout...
freyapayne5
Oct 7, 20241 min read


Rolling stone
Thrown. Rolling, an over and over, wide eyes now heavenward, now intimate with the mud. A freedom of chipped edges, and the finality of...
freyapayne5
Oct 6, 20241 min read


not yet here
In half light, a lurch, a pull of tide through shingle, trawling for the story of my belonging here in this room.
freyapayne5
Oct 5, 20241 min read


standing with bruno
Often i am standing with Bruno Ganz, sometimes i drink coffee with Peter Falk. desire is kept in the breast feathers.
freyapayne5
Oct 4, 20241 min read


lullaby
My branches reach up through your branches. Symbiotic, the wind rocks something deep within us both.
freyapayne5
Oct 3, 20241 min read


water speaks to land/ land speaks to water
Water speaks to land We are compatriots. I stream in your bed We are held by each other Swelling grooving in rhythm You know I ask for...
freyapayne5
Oct 2, 20241 min read


Take off your coat
And be still enough To catch the room settle back And not mind you. Stay long enough For the traversing light to resume.
freyapayne5
Oct 1, 20241 min read
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