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...