THE SEA TURTLE AT PORTSCATHO...

 The Sea Turtle At Portscatho…

A heavyweight, it lurches,

Stumbles and fumbles

Out of the shallows and reaches

For a dry place on rocks

To cling onto, as the tide surges.

The sea urges itself onto the giant shell

With a-spitting and a-scurrying

But the turtle hauls and strains,

One eye indolent, as it purges

Itself of the ocean’s constraints,

Then pauses for respite from its scuttling and worrying…

Pete Ray

21st March 2022…

I looked down from the coast path and saw the outcrop with a hole which could have been an eye.

The remainder of the form reminded me of a turtle, hence the above verse…