Freshwater Tendrils & A Threatening Bank Of Cloud…
A stream’s tendrils seek out the ocean’s shallows,
Flicking curling channels through packed, damp sand
Before meeting a tepid tide of waves small and bland,
Though gradually encroaching upon the stone-strewn beach…
A steely cloud bank slouches across the horizon in shadows,
Its lurid form lurching eastwards towards Cornish land,
Before it ignites a rainbow over a Porthtowan headland
And over a pallid green sea, the coastline it strains to reach…
Pete Ray
16th November 2023…
The sea became a strange pale green colour as the weak tide joined the rivulets of stream water, trickling down Porthtowan’s beach.
On the horizon, rain fell but there was also a steely grey bank of cloud, almost anvil-shaped, heading eastwards towards Padstow perhaps…
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