Friday Poetry (1) – Evening ghosts along the rivers bank
Ghosts along the river bank
Nigel Borrington
Evening ghosts along the river
I could tell you how the river looks
sketched in evening light;
I know the smell of dew so fresh over the river,
and evening air that parts like tired curtains,
with wet heat that sighs
and slaps the grass when you move on;
I’ve felt what a violin says
to the heart of the river ghosts
over waters edge,
and how an old man’s voice sounds best after smoking,
but a woman’s is best talking.
There are ghosts on these paths,
but they don’t hunger anymore;
hunger is for the living
not satisfied
with morning light.
When the river floods
The River Suir, Kilsheelan, County Tipperary
Irish Landscape photography : Nigel Borrington
The power and energy of a flowing river has to be one of the wonders of nature, if you live anywhere near a river you will know very well the seasonal effects that wet and dry weather can bring to the environment of the river banks.
We have had about two months of very wet weather here In Ireland and it has created some of the worst floods for over a hundred years, in many towns along Ireland’s river banks.
These images, I feel show the effects and power of the flooding river Suir, County Tipperary. The river level here is about eight foot higher than its normal level and none of the river banks can be walked along. Two the pictures show the posts of some steps that you walk through to get to the banks of the river, they are fully submerged under about 4 feet of water.
I took these images on Monday of this week, since then the water level is even higher.
The river Suir in flood : Gallery
Flowers along the river bank
Sigma SD15, 18-50mm lens, iso 50
Flowers along the river bank, River Barrow, Co Kilkenny
Landscape Photography : Nigel Borrington
Sigma SD15, 18-50mm lens, iso 50
Flowers along the river bank, River Barrow, Co Kilkenny
Landscape Photography : Nigel Borrington
This old sail boat
Sigma SD15, 18-50mm lens, iso 100
An old sail boat on the river Barrow, Co Kilkenny
Landscape photography by : Nigel Borrington
Walking along the River Barrow in Co Kilkenny, I noticed this old sail boat just sitting tied to the bank. Maybe one day someone will come along and restore it and sail in it again but from its current condition I think its future rests here along the banks of the Barrow for sometime to come.
Sigma SD15, 18-50mm lens, iso 100
An old sail boat on the river Barrow, Co Kilkenny
Landscape photography by : Nigel Borrington
Nigel Borrington 
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