MOUSEHOLE HARBOUR AND POLYANTHUS: A NEW POEM...

Mousehole Harbour And Polyanthus…

(from Gemma Pearce’s painting…)

Framed within one spectral frame,

Through a window above a plain white table,

Mousehole’s pallid harbour, quite uncomplicated,

Is a reminder, like a picture upon a lounge wall

Of its simplicity,

The lack of complicity

And yet three spectral vessels hint at life within the frame…

Picked out from a melee of wallpapers distinctive,

Bold stripes betray the artist’s cunning perspective;

Plundered from a low tide’s strewn, packed sand,

A stone and two shells litter the white table bland;

Purchased maybe, or even perhaps grown outside,

 A polyanthus erupts from green leaves with such pride…

And Mousehole is thus depicted as simplicity,

No human trespassing, no by-law complicity;

It is as it is, as it was, as it always should be

And it should remain so like that for posterity…

Pete Ray

December 2018

Another window-view by Gemma Pearce…

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