MOUSEHOLE STEPS...

Mousehole Steps…

Those same shabby steep stone steps

Which have often strained my knees

To ascend from a wall where small craft

Are lodged during December days,

Support different feet from another time,

Those not of leisure but of graft

Around a working harbour in Mounts’ Bay’s

Western extremity, prey to vicious seas

Which climb like mardy monsters from the depths

And threaten chaos, or cause affray

And seiners’ expeditions to delay;

But those same shabby steep stone steps,

Part of Mousehole’s heritage, remain and appease…

Pete Ray

July 2017

On looking at an old image of Mousehole…