Thank you so much to everyone at the M.O.D and the RAF and to all who have kindly supported my writing.

In the wind and the shade

July 5, 2026

In the wind and the shade,
and the light,
with the power of the morning,
and the sunshine upon the glass of the house nearby,
so, dances a curious beauty,
lofty and flickering and bright,
and with nature’s plane and sunshine,
streams of colours,
dance in the naked eye alight,
and as I, a gentle observer, do sit and watch her,
upon her face she beams, and she whirls around in white,
she beams,
and whirls around with a million sparkles in her eyes,
and I wander in her sweet movement,
and I bathe in her presence,
and I while away the time so happily,
and contentedly as she passes by,
and I wait for her kisses,
and I wait to taste the pleasure from her sweet lips,
for her kisses,
are the equivalent of a whisper of a thousand poetic lines.