Sunday, 21 October 2018

When Autumn turned




When Autumn turned

There are better things than the trees
when the Autumn blows
October leaves and November skies
alive with the aerial dives
of the annual Starlings
where the monument looks to the West
and the lighthouse closed
looks depressed
with its peeling paint and lines like fishermen's jumpers
as the ocean confessed
to a stony indifference that would shake
the promenade down
and smother the pavements with sand
grit the likes of which you never saw
so far inland
the moon as red as a battery torch shining
through a child's hand
there are far better things than the tress
though the hills surround us
the cold blooded fingers of trees
and the flocks of Starlings
are nothing compared to the sound
the gale on the ocean can make

when the earth and her blue skin of sea turns around


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