Monday, 30 November 2020

RANDOM DWELLINGS & AN IMPUDENT OCEAN: A POEM ABOUT ANYA SIMMONS' PAINTING OF ST IVES...

 Random Dwellings & An Impudent Ocean

(from Anya Simmons’ painting of St Ives…)



Dwellings appear seemingly positioned

At random, rising from the blues

And the eclectic hues

Of a restless, daunting ocean,

As its turbulence and impudence

Tumble a line of vessels

Moored, yet rocked and fumbled by its tide’s insouciance…


Buildings appear irregularly arranged

But clustered, huddling from the abuse

And the seething fuse

Of a listless, taunting ocean,

As its ambivalence and diffidence

Shrug a row of boats

Tethered, yet mocked and tugged by its tide’s insolence…


Pete Ray

30th November 2020 

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