Stripped Away:
(from Gemma Pearce’s picture ‘Mousehole Gaps’)
Stripped away
From the harbour
Are the usual vessels: Mizpah, Raven and Driftwood,
The scrabbling, squabbling gulls,
The unwitting, flitting turnstones,
The loose floating wrack, and the weed
Staining the bobbing boats’ moored hulls…
Stripped away
From the island
Is the usual wildlife: cormorants, oystercatchers and seals;
Although sailing craft work the safe lane
Across an unpredictable Mount’s Bay,
The turquoise ocean simply reveals
The idyll, with no stormy seas to contain…
Stripped away
From the quay walls
Are the usual mooring posts, rusting rings and chains,
Baulks and ropes and countless signs,
Warnings, plaques and parking spaces,
Vehicles, lobster pots, the oily stains
And ladders descending in vertical lines…
‘Mousehole Gaps’ portrays a modest joy,
The harbour’s demeanour and colour serene;
The incongruous flowers and scrubbed sea-shells
Adding domesticity to where industry has been…
Pete Ray
December 2018
Gemma Pearce’s painting…
Thought provoking…
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