Dawnings
A home on wheels
By Nicholas Hooper
Green surrounds our home on wheels.
Silence in this shadowed grove that remembers times long ago
when Normans had a castle here, made a moat,
then passed, leaving a whisp of their presence
described by a circle of stones.
But the moat is still here and water birds duck and flourish in the still, dark wet.
And all around, chaffinches, wrens, blackbirds, magpies, pigeons and a chiffchaff
sing in turn as the morning ghosts waft to and fro dancing to the the bells
of the Norman church.
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About Dawnings:
“Every morning at around 5am I get up and go down to my studio. After a short meditation I write down whatever is in my head, giving myself fifteen minutes to do so. Then moving over to the piano (or a more portable instrument like my Ukulele when I'm away), I improvise and record a piece of music inspired by whatever words I just wrote. It is a great way of keeping both my writing and my composing going and I call these small creations Dawnings. They are mostly unedited, like sketches, so that they keep that fresh feeling of an early morning discovery.”
— Nick Hooper