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Cardiff Bay - 12 Sept 14

I'm glad there is no camera on my phone

Or I'd be sending you an endless steam

Of photos which, though beautiful, will mean

Nothing, when you see them at home,

For tiny pictures on a tiny screen,

Glanced at while you're doing something else,

Cannot hint at all the depth, the wealth,

The detail and the splendour I have seen

Mid-September - and the autumn leaves

Should by now be falling - yet today

I'm basking as we did at Bembridge Quay

Six weeks ago, when we all believed

It would not last; yet it seems there was no haste

For here I am, sitting in the sun

When, in other years the storms have run

Amok, turning once golden leaves to waste.

If only for today let me delight

In unexpected brightness; even as I know

That brazen autumn and the winter snow

Lurk close at hand to snatch away the light.

Brian Hick 12.9.14

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