Les Études
– The Nature Series: SkyScapes
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2012 by Oluwatosin Ojumu
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Chapter 3 – Dark Skies and Night Skies
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Sun
Rise
The sun is rising, its flaming body ascends over the
horizon.
Beneath it, the sky is a sonnet of rich red brown.
Above it, layers of clouds, alternating in texture, width and
luminosity, as they echo the iridescent rays.
Soft clouds,
marshmallow clouds, stripy cloud bands.
Blue layers, black
layers, glimmering red and yellow layers.
The light released
on its mission by its young master bounces playfully in the sky,
teases and flirts with its heavenly subjects before finally shooting
forth, to herald the new day.
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Flock
A
sunset.
A rainbow sky, lightly rinsed in watercolours – a
strong ochre, burnished copper, giving way to mildest, gently hued
blue.
Clouds scattered, fanning a lacy network across the sky.
Below the sky, the sea, gently rippling, simmering.
A
flock of birds, flys, hovers swoops in, adding movement, rhythm and
percussion to our scene, feathered, pulsating beauty.
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The
Dawning of the Day.
Dawn slowly breaks over the city
harbour in pastel shades of pale pink-orange and gentle lime-blue.
The water stirs, as if moved by an angel, or a huge underwater
mixer.
The ships which have been resting here over a quiet
night slowly come to life.
A road bridge spans the mouth of
the port, where the river joins the sea.
Its lights shine
overhead, cheerfully welcoming the new day, like stars announcing the
birth of the Sun King to be born today, as it is born every day.
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Starry
Sky
The sky is glorious blue, royal blue, the colour rich,
deep and consistent.
In this sky the stars are brightly
shining, and clearly visible, tiny holes of light glittering
above.
Beneath, the waves are tinkling onto the shore, white
crested, ebbing and flowing, talkative witnesses to the splendour and
majesty of the night.
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Two Blue
Sky and sea are mirror images reflecting the
same intense royal blue, with white cloud drizzled over.
Between
earth and sky, just a shaving of white.
No sun, no land, no
trees, just blue above, and shimmering blue waves beneath.
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Mist
Crests of dark mountains arise from the sea, their
crowns cradling fluid clouds.
Mist creeps up to the heavens,
softening the colours of the morning.
Brown rises into
mauve, then into a thin slice of orange, with a hint of ochre melting
into pink then
faint white then clear turquoise blue.
On
the other side of the black land, muddy brown rises into ochre then
blends into pale pink, then light brown, then a wide band of primrose
then a faint stroke of white, then lime green blazes before finally
terminating in that same vivid azure.
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Sun Salad
The sun has been roughly chopped up and
scattered liberally over its dark bed of bitter cloud.
Beneath
this, tangy layers of flaky red sky; aromatic, flavoursome, like
slices of home grown tomato, or crunchy red cabbage.
The sea
is a base of peppery salad leaves, intermittently sprinkled with
bands of hot spices to draw out the vibrant flavours above.
To
top it all, a generous spreading of cloud mayonnaise.
What a
delicious meal to savour for an evening!
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Bridge
Above,
a hazy sky wide brush strokes in blue, at the bottom of the sky it is
now peach, with finer detail picked out in a delicate white toothpick
line.
Beneath, a river, a strip of tin foil, scrunched up
then flattened, reflecting all imperfectly from its dented and
dimpled surface.
Between water and sky a band of trees, dark,
foreboding.
Above the trees a bridge tightly spans the chasm.
The electronic light display between its arches are a majestic
fountain of intense colour, blue fireworks streaming to the
ground.
Above the bridge, lights, twinkling like candles on a
birthday cake, or tea lights floating on the Ganges, or guiding
lights on a landing strip, bidding a joyous welcome or a fond
farewell to the city.