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Winter Beach
Remember
The sea assaults
Of winter gales when
Towering spray sheets curl
Over the green-stripe tower
At the harbour mouth
And waves roll shoreward
Beside its jetty
Shingle crashing
Floating spume across the beach
With black stones cold shone by spray
That above the wave thrust
Hides the horizon behind its mist
As the sun shines low
On a December afternoon
...Wednesday 4th December 2019 2:40 pm
The wave behind the wave
From beyond the far horizon arc
travelling travelling calmly on
to swell gently across a sea
until the deep corals
are left far behind
and the seabed
rises sloping up
to meet land
forcing us
to turn
to curl
to break
to surge
to rattle stone
to shape sand
our strength waining
retreating quietly beneath
the wave behind our wave
a curling s...
Monday 24th September 2018 9:15 am
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