Old Boat…
(from a painting by Iulia Carchelan…)
A gun metal reminder
From an ocean’s cannonade
Buffets and roughens, lustily,
Threatening and deafening.
The lava grey rejoinder
Of a storm’s tirade
Unveils and squalls, testily,
Lashing and threshing.
The gulls’ white splendour
From a ragged parade
Haunts and taunts, aggressively,
Banking and shrieking.
A blood red remainder
Of a voyage’s charade
Shudders and weathers, haplessly,
Listing and rusting…
Pete Ray
13th March 2021
Love this drama.
Reminds me of a Newlyn trawler battling back into port, following a tough time in a stormy Cornish sea…
The dark waves, the sheets of grey rain, the pallid, fussy gulls and the seemingly helpless boat make the scene seem strangely exciting…
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