Parish Ghosts : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Parish Ghosts / Giles Watson's poetry and prose
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | A record of some of the uncanny experiences Jeannie and I have had whilst visiting a range of different parish churches in southern England:Parish GhostsIIn wet, neglected churchesWhere algal bloom swathesThe windows in a greening blush,The ghosts are not unquiet:Little wizened ladiesRearranging spectral flowers,Flaunting empty dusters,Shuffling slippered feetDown flags and browning brasses.A sneeze scatters them,Or a voice, raisedToo loud in benediction.IIIn gaunt, mediaeval churchesWhere lords lie in stateAlongside ladies, with alabasterArrogance, their gauntletsClasped in insincere obsequies,The ghosts arrest youWith a chain-mailed, curiousProbing, as though to plumbThe powers that make you modernAnd question the fates, who gaveThem strength, then let it wane.IIIIn private, Templar churchesWhere tourists, numb to spirits,Scrawl in visitors’ booksThat the atmosphere is “peaceful”,Questing ghosts are flickersAt the corners of our eyelids,Snickering mirages, pulpit shadowsStretching a yard too farDown quaking, stone-paved naves.In their time, they have stabbedBacks, or laid schemes at beheadings,Dreaming sharpened axe-fallsAnd laden, dripping baskets,Their dark interiors twinklingWith drying dead-men’s eyes.IVBut in the grimmest churchesWhere bodies are exhumed,Transplanted, cold as organsPacked in ice, the mothersAnd the sisters, impotentAnd desperate, rack and rendTheir skins with airy nails,And screech their searingSeparations in the visitors’Wan faces. Cock robinsFall dead from the firmament,Hearts torn by ghost-voices.In the grimmest churchesThe dead rage, clamour,Beseech, beckon, reachTo clutch you, holdYou to their red andBeating hearts. Their fingersRing our fleshy throatsAnd clench on air.Poem by Giles Watson, 2010. |
| 撮影日 | 2010-02-28 14:00:41 |
| 撮影者 | Giles Watson's poetry and prose , Oxfordshire, England |
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| カメラ | E8700 , NIKON |
| 露出 | f/2.8 |
| 開放F値 | f/2.8 |