Who bathes in words
        Bathes in water …
Who bathes in music
        Bathes in mood …
Who bathes in colour
        Bathes in cloud …

Sunlight shaping the sense
        Shadows shading the nuance …
Noontime a present tense
        Evening, perspective’s ambience …
Night without pretence
        In starlight’s naked trance …

Ever shifting landscape of the heart
        Undulating downland’s self-made art …
Twisting chalk streams running clear for ever,
        Uniting earth and sky, an endless river …
Driving rain and mud and bitter winter
        Reveal at last a topographic centre …