'BEAR IN THE CLOUDS' (BLAKENEY, NORTH NORFOLK...)

 Bear In The Clouds…

The bloodstained head of an angry celestial bear

Bellowed its impotent annoyance

At the fiery exit of a setting sun,

Baring imaginary teeth, as if to tear

At silhouetted vessels in defiance,

For all prey had gone and daylight was done…

The wild, blood-streaked face of the cloud-form bear

Mouthed its apparent insolence

As night’s black web was duly spun

And the apparition railed in its despair,

Losing shape and all resistance:

A grizzly wraith silently shunned…

Pete Ray

24th September 2021 

The cloud formation, streaked red seemed to show a bear’s head in my imagination, yelling at the sunset and the oncoming darkness over Blakeney, North Norfolk…