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FLUENT IN SILENCE

Silence has many forms.
Sometimes it protects.
Sometimes it connects.
Sometimes it carries what we are not ready to say.
And sometimes -it becomes the very thing that harms us.
This collection explores silence not as absence but as language.
A language learned, inherited, shared and,at times reclaimed.
These poems are not just about what is unsaid, but about what silence holds-love,fear, memory, power and choice.
-Nandipha Chibwe

FLUENT IN SILENCE

Silence has many forms.
Sometimes it protects.
Sometimes it connects.
Sometimes it carries what we are not ready to say.
And sometimes -it becomes the very thing that harms us.
This collection explores silence not as absence but as language.
A language learned, inherited, shared and,at times reclaimed.
These poems are not just about what is unsaid, but about what silence holds-love,fear, memory, power and choice.
-Nandipha Chibwe

FLUENT IN SILENCE

Silence has many forms.
Sometimes it protects.
Sometimes it connects.
Sometimes it carries what we are not ready to say.
And sometimes -it becomes the very thing that harms us.
This collection explores silence not as absence but as language.
A language learned, inherited, shared and,at times reclaimed.
These poems are not just about what is unsaid, but about what silence holds-love,fear, memory, power and choice.
-Nandipha Chibwe

FLUENT IN SILENCE

Silence has many forms.
Sometimes it protects.
Sometimes it connects.
Sometimes it carries what we are not ready to say.
And sometimes -it becomes the very thing that harms us.
This collection explores silence not as absence but as language.
A language learned, inherited, shared and,at times reclaimed.
These poems are not just about what is unsaid, but about what silence holds-love,fear, memory, power and choice.
-Nandipha Chibwe

FLUENT IN SILENCE

Silence has many forms.
Sometimes it protects.
Sometimes it connects.
Sometimes it carries what we are not ready to say.
And sometimes -it becomes the very thing that harms us.
This collection explores silence not as absence but as language.
A language learned, inherited, shared and,at times reclaimed.
These poems are not just about what is unsaid, but about what silence holds-love,fear, memory, power and choice.
-Nandipha Chibwe

As the crackdown on anyone who seemed #different intensified, Professor Xavier's students were forced to find new ways to identify where they could safely meet.

#XMen #Marvel #photography #TellingStories #FensterFreitag

"Oh, you again, Daddy mentioned you! Well, looks like you don't have a choice this time - the unimaginable is coming right this way!! HOW FAST CAN YOU RUN?"

This time seen near the #RiverLea between #Hertford and #Welwyn

#Fox #NaturePhotography #wildlifewednesday #RiverLea #TellingStories #wildlife #wildlifePhotography

As I quickly glanced left, for a moment I thought the lit buildings were huge pillars holding the night #sky above me – a highway to… somewhere.

Then I realised that Night's Bridge is by Hyde Park & I was approaching Loughborough Junction, so the moment passed.

#psychogeography #photography #London #NightPhotography #TellingStories #Brixton

Will loved spending his evenings down by the #docks with her, the views were lovely, watching the planes land was cool, they could talk for hours about anything and nothing. So hard to find that nowadays.

She was a #ghost - died 20 years ago. But he didn't care.

#TellingStories #photography #London #silhouette #StreetPhotography #GhostStory #ThamesPath #RoyalDocks #Thames

"You keep away. This diggy thing is MINE!
I'm going to have the best den EVER!"

#Fox #JCB #NaturePhotography #TellingStories #London #photography #Construction

If you ever catch a train from #Waterloo platform 1 & feel a bit of a chill, don't be surprised - the #London #Necropolis #Railway branch line heard about those trains without passengers & decided to run their own. No, you won't see anything—they're #ghost trains after all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Necropolis_Railway

#MomentsFromAMovingTrain #photography #RailwayTrack #TellingStories #History #abandoned #SilentSunday

Life is an #adventure – you never know what you'll see next!
The world *is* the largest #dungeon – no one gets out alive, and have you seen how many different levels there are?
Therefore, if you go far enough & put some points in #perception — you might just encounter a bit of #magic

#psychogeography #DnD #London #photography #wand #naturephotography #LostAndFound #Abandoned #walking #exploring #discovery #TellingStories

When #Heathrow airport's 3rd runway construction began, #spacetime got weird — concrete started to float!

Baffling – until they realised the mystical river wardings protecting the airport on three sides had been breached! Worse than the last time too – which had resulted in having to lift the Picadilly line over the River Crane!

#TellingStories #Photography #London #psychogeography #HeathrowAirport

#GamesWorkshop's decision to announce the new #Ork heavy assault vehicle with a publicity stunt at Heathrow Airport surprised everyone.

Took weeks to get the bloodstains out of that skip…

#London #Photography #TellingStories #Warhammer

#GamesWorkshop's decision to announce the new #Ork heavy assault vehicle with a publicity stunt at Heathrow Airport surprised everyone.

Took weeks to get the bloodstains out of that skip…

#London #Photography #TellingStories #Warhammer

#GamesWorkshop's decision to announce the new #Ork heavy assault vehicle with a publicity stunt at Heathrow Airport surprised everyone.

Took weeks to get the bloodstains out of that skip…

#London #Photography #TellingStories #Warhammer

#GamesWorkshop's decision to announce the new #Ork heavy assault vehicle with a publicity stunt at Heathrow Airport surprised everyone.

Took weeks to get the bloodstains out of that skip…

#London #Photography #TellingStories #Warhammer

#GamesWorkshop's decision to announce the new #Ork heavy assault vehicle with a publicity stunt at Heathrow Airport surprised everyone.

Took weeks to get the bloodstains out of that skip…

#London #Photography #TellingStories #Warhammer

"It's so lovely to watch the #sunset over Greenland Dock together…
But enough of that! My young apprentice, the #Jedi Master of #Millwall has stirred from his Den - DESTROY HIM!"

#photography #London #StreetPhotography #TellingStories #StarWars #ThamesPath

Did I hear one of them whisper "Anung Un Rama"? Nah, that'd be ridiculous!

#Hellboy #TellingStories #graffiti #StreetArt #London #photography

Kurt Hester, Houston football’s director of strength and performance, dies at 61 from cancer https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/476313/ #ArizonaState #Cougars #Football #Hester #Houston #KurtHester #StrengthAndConditioningCoach #TannerKoziol #TellingStories #WillieFritz

"Miscreant. The Council of Wave and Water has judged your crimes against the river. AND WE FIND YOU GUILTY!!"

#ThamesPath #WildlifePhotography #heron #TellingStories #London #cormorant #seagull #Wildlife #Thames

I realised that diverting from Lover's Lane to the Folly Brook might have been a mistake. When? Why, when the walls of #Euston started #screaming…

#TellingStories #psychogeography #London #photography #LondonUnderground

Nick insisted that the route under #Woolwich Ferry Road was "a right of way, part of the #ThamesPath, #CapitalRing and that he was damn well going to #walk it!"
Wonder how he's doing… 😉

#TellingStories #LoveLondonWalkLondon #ThamesPath #photography #London

One day, the king of the sea lions & his young son swam up a river, from a high hill the king said,
"Look Swimba. Everything the light touches is our kingdom."
"Wow! What about the shadowy smokey place with the towers?"
"That is central #London. You must never go there, Swimba."

#TellingStories #LionKing #LeaValley #Landscape #london #photography #reservoir

Yeah, old man Lectricity lives there. He don't care for visitors! Apart from #Pinn, never minds seeing them as they pass by.

HTs #AbandonedPlaces #graffiti #TellingStories #Pinner #NaturePhotography #LondonsRivers #ElectricitySubstation

Only #ghost children play along the #RiverDarent, 'ere since the Questor* failed at their task.
*Industrial estate, Dartford

HTs #LondonsRivers #Hookland #psychogeography #SignsOfTheTimes #photography #TellingStories

The term #ghost #train is used for a service run empty in order to hold onto the rights for the journey. But are they called that to disguise discussions of stranger things travelling on the rails?

HTs #hookland #photography #shutterSpeed #parallax #TellingStories

When the tunnel starts to wheeze, it's just London clay by the tonne. When the lights start to bleed… it's time to run!

HTs #WeirdLondon #psychogeography #Woolwich #ThamesPath #TellingStories #hookland #London #photography #stalactites

Some people might question why #satyrs, #Herne and other hornéd archetypes of the hidden world are so fond of the #woods - surely something bipedal with antlers would find the branches endlessly frustrating?

But would they fare any better, #tricksters and hunters, sneaking towards their quarry amongst the long grasses?

HTs #NaturePhotography #stag #RichmondPark #hiding #fae #TellingStories #HidingFail #London #photography

"Joseph… Joseph, is that you?
[Sounds of an antique walking stick on a path, then a scream, and a thump]
#Hookland #TellingStories

There are #doors and there are… doors. Some are mere hatchways of mundanity. But others - often as much by their surroundings as by their own appearance, are #LiminalSpaces, #portals of possibility.

HTs #WeirdLondon #wanderings #TellingStories #hookland #psychogeography #London #photography

Keep the door closed, it says, it doesn't like the breeze rattling through the house.
And you wouldn't want to upset it, it says. Be terrible if the foundations of #Manchester turned into sand and ran into the Irwell. Wouldn't it?

HTs #LimininalSpaces #Hookland #TellingStories #psychogeography #UrbanDecay #photography

Eventually, you turn to leave. You can't live the rest of your life in the glowing heart of a #tree (can you?) But as you turn to go, you find your way blocked. The bare #branches that touched only gently before rear up, green, sharp, and somehow… aggressive.
What has gone wrong?

HTs #SpiralOfBranches #TellingStories #hookland #psychogeography #London #photography #NightPhotography #NaturePhotography #light

Then. It all goes calm. You've reached the eye of the storm. The #heart of the #tree. You can feel it beating. Not blood, or air, nor sap. It's beating with near-blinding pulses of pure sunlight.

You're not sure how you're ever getting home. But somehow you don't mind right now…

HTs #SpiralOfBranches #TellingStories #hookland #psychogeography #London #photography #NightPhotography #NaturePhotography #LookUp #light

Then. It all goes calm. You've reached the eye of the storm. The #heart of the #tree. You can feel it beating. Not blood, or air, nor sap. It's beating with near-blinding pulses of pure sunlight.

You're not sure how you're ever getting home. But somehow you don't mind right now…

HTs #SpiralOfBranches #TellingStories #hookland #psychogeography #London #photography #NightPhotography #NaturePhotography #LookUp #light

The sound of the wind through #branches is like that of the sea. But what if some strange force turned a #tree into a #whirlpool and you were pulled up & away through a #spiral of boughs? What would happen to you, where would you go?

HTs #SpiralOfBranches #TellingStories #hookland #psychogeography #StreetPhotography #London #photography #NaturePhotography

If you drink coffee in Tea Terrace, whilst male toes are dipped in the Ladies Pond… then the Ghost #Parakeet of #BatterseaPark l will fly free, and terror will be unleashed 'pon the all the #Thames

HTs #TellingStories #psychogeography #hookland #NaturePhotography #birdwatching #HappyAccidents #serendipity #London #photography #GhostStories

In the dampen places by the #RiverLea betwixt Turnford and Hoddleston, some cunning bastards have been stealing *parts* of #pylons. Experts suggest they may be trying to construct a 'FrankenPylon' to wreak electrical devastation upon the land.

HTs #TellingStories #psychogeography #hookland #photography #canal

"Are you sure?" asks #Reynard of the #Ravensborne
It's gotta be said - #foxes make hellah intimidating gamesmasters!
(More photos in thread)

HTs #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #London #RiversOfLondon #FoxesOfTheRiverOfLondon #Fox #London #photography #TellingStories

"Are you sure?" asks #Reynard of the #Ravensborne
It's gotta be said - #foxes make hellah intimidating gamesmasters!
(More photos in thread)

HTs #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #London #RiversOfLondon #FoxesOfTheRiverOfLondon #Fox #London #photography #TellingStories

"Are you sure?" asks #Reynard of the #Ravensborne
It's gotta be said - #foxes make hellah intimidating gamesmasters!
(More photos in thread)

HTs #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #London #RiversOfLondon #FoxesOfTheRiverOfLondon #Fox #London #photography #TellingStories

"Are you sure?" asks #Reynard of the #Ravensborne
It's gotta be said - #foxes make hellah intimidating gamesmasters!
(More photos in thread)

HTs #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #London #RiversOfLondon #FoxesOfTheRiverOfLondon #Fox #London #photography #TellingStories

"Are you sure?" asks #Reynard of the #Ravensborne
It's gotta be said - #foxes make hellah intimidating gamesmasters!
(More photos in thread)

HTs #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #London #RiversOfLondon #FoxesOfTheRiverOfLondon #Fox #London #photography #TellingStories