Blue Planet

Blue Planet

(For David Attenborough)

Igniting shimmering haze of sea-Blue sky-Blue reflecting In Vedic hymn & Homage in ritualising the landscape from source to sea A hue of manganese Phthalo Cerulean Blue glistening shining sparkling . At cliffs & estuaries Of Moher Lahinch & Kalmar There’s a fortress of sea birds Squeaking croaking & calling In species of Kestrel Seagull & Puffin Who dive 40 metres & hold their breath for 1 minute when fishing . Peregrines Falcons Sandpiper & Mallards Can be seen & heard all along the cliffs & estuaries A clear raucous cawing & shrill begging calls of young With creaking & wailing calls in ee-chup Ee-chup ee-chup ee-chup . Where’s the Sandpiper Makes soft pips before standard slow song Of chrreet chrreet chreet call In a low frequency sound . Some Sandpiper in groups Sound like Victorian elaborate musical instruments With their whimbrels & Willets Dowitchers & dunlins shanks & tattlers .

Compared with the duck’s whistles of the female Mallard Calling out in a series of 2 to 10 quakes With a thrill or a Coo and a soft whistle .

While the waves carve away Cathedral like rocks that form caves & the continuous ebb & flow of tides twoing & frooing twoing & froing Two & fro two & fro two & fro twoing & froing twoing & froing In Vedic hymn & Homage in ritualising the landscape from source to sea . & where the waves shape & sculpt the rocks For Ship Setting Burials & Cairns Where headstones are placed to make shape of ship

In Gettlinge Gravfält in Öland commanding magnificent views & for many Cairns in Kilshanny strewn from hilltops searching out high heavenly ground . Igniting shimmering haze of Sea-Blue Sky-Blue reflecting In Vedic hymn & Homage in ritualising & healing the landscape from source to sea A hue of manganese Phthalo Cerulean Blue glistening shining sparkling .