Friday, 16 October 2020

'SENNEN AWASH': MY NEW POEM FROM ANYA SIMMONS' ARTWORK...

 Sennen Awash

(from the painting by ANYA SIMMONS…)



Chunky vessels toss and tumble,

Awash beside the harbour wall,

A stern, stark construction

Depicted like a bus in multicolour cubism

About to shatter, splinter and crumble

Like a fractured refracting prism

Onto the myriad boats upon the sunlit beach;

And surf rollicks and frolics to reach

Them and drag them, scraping

Into a tumult gushing and gaping,

To corral them in an ocean’s watery trawl…  


And the capstan house lies stoic 

At the rear of the scene,

Its heritage assured, yet its historic

Function is recalled, its perspective serene;

And the storm lashed wall lies lugubrious,

Camouflaged to stage right, solidly grim,

Protective and sullen, yet its callous

Function is reserved, out on a limb… 


PETE RAY

OCTOBER 2020




  

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