Wednesday, 13 March 2019

TIN SOLDIERS FROM ST JUST: A NEW POEM...

The Rescue From The Line...
(Cape Cornwall Antiques, St Just in Penwith)



Tucked inside Cape Cornwall’s
Exposed, wind-railed coast,
St Just lurked and irked
Just a little, yet somehow restrained
Constrained and warned my ease,
Like an infiltrating unseen ghost;

Then harsh hail dropped
Like a First World War shell assault, unrelenting
Upon Ypres, or onto the forward trenches,
Rattling upon St Just’s wooden benches,
Before quite suddenly relenting…

And then I saw them, in a line,
Stranded, a bedraggled group,
A troubled, beleaguered troop 
Upon a window ledge,
An unprotected, embattled ridge
From whence I paid for their release,
Their Blighty, their salvation, their peace…

Pete Ray
March 2019

Five tin soldiers, wearing World War One uniforms stood on a window ledge at Cape Cornwall Antiques, St Just.

I simply had to buy their release…


The hail was short lived but added more mood to the town…
THE WAR MEMORIAL...

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