Rachel J Bowler's photos with the keyword: England
Poppies
01 Jul 2023 |
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Lasting less than
Ten days,
They lurch
In vain.
I frame a few,
Hoping to make them
Everlasting.
But they remain
Anonymous,
Among a million
Others
That strive
Not to fade
Out of memory.
On the Breeze
06 Jun 2023 |
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Have I met you
In days long gone,
Passing through?
Dimly remembered
Before time frowned
Into evening?
A memory
In symmetry
On the shoreline
Or on a distant hill
Looking west?
The breeze
Wanders through
The years.
Lifting the decades
On the air,
To youth.
Meeting but not meeting
Until the end.
Gravity
24 Apr 2023 |
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I wait
Without cover
Whilst the cold sharpens in.
Death pulling to the floor.
Is it possible to revive
The mists of eternity?
The frost smothers
Einstein white,
And gravity pins me
To this place.
I dare not look up.
Hope would crush me.
Unwritten Poetry
The Ladder
25 Feb 2023 |
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'There's the ladder without-a-top,' said Silky, pointing. 'No one has ever climbed beyond the three thousandth rung, because they get so tired. And there's the tree-that-sings. It's singing now.'
So it was - a whispery, beautiful song, all about the sun and the wind and rain. The children could understand it perfectly, although the tree did not use any words they knew. It just stood there and poured out its song in tree language.
Enid Blyton - The Folk of the Faraway Tree
The Grey Lady
25 Feb 2023 |
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Through the house
No longer there,
She walks.
At a distance,
Across the open grass.
Sitting on a bench
In the height of summer.
At dusk, she lingers
On the outskirts
Of the fair.
A thousand years
Away,
Alluded to
By lovers
On a rainy day.
The real story
Never told.
The winter warning.
Mirage
14 Feb 2023 |
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There is no symbol here.
No infinite reaching
To the other side.
No secrecy
Or sacred rites.
Patterns of thought
And feeling
Comfortably cease.
There is no need
To seek the sky,
Or what's beyond.
There is already
Light enough
To see.
Shape Shifters
10 Jun 2020 |
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Shape shifting their way like fog
Through the days,
An invisible war has been fought
For forty years
By ghosts in disguise
Who show you who they are
Every day
If you dare look
Into the blue chill
Of nothingness.
Still Waiting
27 Feb 2019 |
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Rachel is a hobbyist photographer who also makes a few poetic attempts, of mainly comic value. Her work explores the relationship between midlife sub-cultures and very long walks. With influences as diverse as Danny Dyer and Camus, new variations are generated from both explicit, implicit and extra layers.
Ever since she was a child, after holidaying at Butlin's Skegness, she has been fascinated by the essential unreality of the universe. What starts out as hope soon becomes corrupted into a carnival of chaos and trips to Sainsbury's, leaving only a lingering sense of what the hell has happened type nausea.
Her work is aloof and systematic, and cool, neutral imagery is used. By means of thought processes, she explores the possibility of escape from the corporate world. As subtle phenomena become frozen through boundaried and repetitive practice, the viewer is left without a clue as to the potential or the limits of our future.
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