Wednesday, 19 January 2022

GAZING AT DEVONSHIRE SUNLIGHT: MY NEW POEM ABOUT A PATRICIA HITCHENS PAINTING...

 Gazing At Devonshire Sunlight…

(from Patricia Hitchens’ painting of a sunny Devon day…)



At the top I gazed,

Where lurking cliffs, blackened by shade,

Emerge from the lustrous deep blues

Of a becalmed sea, unfazed 

By white surf’s tirade,

As upon a rocky outcrop it spews…


At the main body I gaze,

Where olive fields curl seaward,

Down to a charcoal quay, or sea wall.

And turquoise waves raise

Their queer angst landward,

Urged on by a ghoulish squall…


At the foreground I gaze,

Where white waves dominate

And in turmoil, restlessly thrash

Out their domination and amaze,

 Scare, scowl, yet fascinate,

As they bellow, suck and crash…


Pete Ray

18th January 2022…

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