Hidden Gloucester Green Space Poetry Walk (by sarah)
For a few years now I have been doing poetry walks where I take my phone or camera and write poems in tweet form as I take the photos, it started off with the phone before the head injury but has mainly been camera since due to the difficulty of tweeting and walking at the same time! I often turn these in picture poem/stories on Turquoise Monster and so on but that can take ages and I fear I loose some of the poems by just forgetting them so I've decided to embed the tweets on here as an interim 🙂
A few weeks ago I was at a talk where someone said that city landscapes were of no interest because they were devoid of nature and someone else countered that Gloucester was full of green and hidden spaces. I have been searching out things like the hidden art and history so I decided that I would also actively hunt out the green spaces.
In the city of #Gloucester there hides a space of green that stretches & connects this world of brick & steel to that of ancient castles & older woodlands the River sings her song as birds swoop to pick or talk & insects with flashing glitters of wings dart to & throw #poetrywalk pic.twitter.com/hH99PWqevA
— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) April 19, 2018
Life reclaims and hides taking back the wood and stone, melting away the metal of histories that have gone before, on this isle the landscape has shaped its humans in the process of them shaping it, wilds of an older time call cradling the city gently with remembrance #poetrywalk pic.twitter.com/69QvY1Yy7f
— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) April 19, 2018
A fusion, mix and overplayed - interlocking intricacy shows this brave new ecology as it marks and masks our dependence on the earth from which our streets have been created, they are not apart but a part of the land, the river whispers of possibilities #poetrywalk pic.twitter.com/Jemc9aK6Rg
— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) April 19, 2018
Light & shadows form a contrast a texture of the knowing of a beautiful home & a future intwined of the wild & the formed cathedrals of wood frame the sky & jewel green grass the trees sigh that it is spring reminding all within the saps rise & blood hum #poetrywalk #Gloucester pic.twitter.com/fRhGwpdu0X
— Sarah Snell-Pym (@Saffy) April 19, 2018
Fri 20th Apr 2018 7:29 am 
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