Glass Mountain Writers - Michael Brown

Michael Brown has been a member of the Glass Mountain Writers' Group for six months, and previously attended several WEA courses on novel writing. A retired vicar, he has written the first draft of a full length novel on Greek mythology, and is currently writing a contemporary novel on the Jacob/Esau story.

The measure of effulgence

Light travels very fast,

straight way it seems.

You strike a match

and at once it gleams.

But the universe is vast.

A small arc of night sky

contains a blurred patch

so distant it takes ten million years

for an old galaxy to espy

what instantly to our view appears.

Nothing then is static

in the curves of space.

Past events for us

are still to take place.

It’s fantastic:

Somewhere in the milky way

another dawn chorus

heralds a fresh morn,

sight of a new day

where I have yet to be born.

Window

Here’s a landscape of crystal,

A toothed skyline of jutting panes

Shielding shoppers when it rains,

An Alpine spa of aisles and lanes

Packed with goodies plain and special.

There’s treasure in that window

Behind the plate glass

I’m tempted to smash,

Gems I could turn into cash,

Rubies convert into dough.

Off piste for the cyber scene

Find new windows to explore,

Images and incidents galore,

A million vistas and more,

Poised to appear on screen.

I prefer a leaded lattice,

An author’s gleaming light,

A poet’s vision infinite,

To focus my inner sight

Sipping sweetly from their chalice.

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