Sunday, 19 March 2023

THE STEELY CHANNEL AT RYE HARBOUR... (My new poem about the Sussex coast...)

 The Steely Channel At Rye Harbour…



From the dunes, groynes descended towards the ocean

Upon Camber Sands at low tide

And the Channel fidgeted and shivered

 Its pallid hues in the feeble light

On a cold morning in March.

In the shallows gulls and waders with strutting motion

Within Rye Harbour squawked and cried

And the Channel agitated and quivered

Its weak silver-grey, hapless and contrite

On a threatening morning harsh…


And distant spectres of pylons in the mist lurked,

Whilst the distant Dungeness power station irked

One’s mind, the monstrosity depressing and callous

Beside the pale ocean, listlessly tremulous…   



Pete Ray

17th March 2023




Cold, curious and windy with light bursts of rain on Rye’s beach area.




Looking left, Camber Sands with its dunes and groynes looked desolate at low tide, some birds crowded in the shallows of a strange pallid sea but beyond lay the power station and its accompanying pylons…



Uncomfortable…

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