The New Bleak: Trauma, Haunting And The Cultural Obsession With Darkness | The Quietus

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call’d him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To case upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring […]

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Unwinding all Time

Unwinding all Time 14 June 2016   The wind blows On sands of the mind Stripping bare Ideas Like wrecked car that truck tows A recovery   Winding path It leads to the source Of all thought…

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365 Challenge No. 1 - 2026 publish daily old unpublished pics
Day 16 - Bleak Glencoe, Inverness-shire, Scotland 2010
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As the Ravens swarm

As the Ravens swarm 8 February 2016   Slow they show The shimmering peaks The love’s hope Periscope Looking out of the waters Rimmed with icy blue   The cleansing Gift of springtime’s spr…

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A pervasive sense of pessimism regarding Germany's political trajectory has gripped the nation heading into the new year, according to a newly released Forsa su... https://news.osna.fm/?p=29691 | #news #amid #bleak #foresee #germans
A cold midwinter view, captured at Rainton Meadows, Houghton-le-Spring in NE England.
Joe's Pond is a lovely spot on a fine summer's day, but here, captured around the winter solstice, it is exuding some of the bleakness associated with this time of the year.
Rainton Meadows is managed by the Durham Wildlife Trust and it is also their HQ.
#midwinter #december #sunderland #durhamwildlifetrust #bleak #landscape

That time of year when I spend an hour going ‘round the estate opening all the curtains only to repeat the process in reverse 2 hours later.

I hate winter low light and walking backwards.

#Bleak #ItsGrimUpNorth