Sunday, 15 September 2024

NIGHTFALL... (My new poem inspired by Becca Thorne's painting also called 'Nightfall...')

 Nightfall…

(Inspired by Becca Thorne’s painting…)



A grimy mushroom dusk hangs over an irritable ocean,

Tousling its depths into snarling, spiralling 

Waves, spitting white into the nightfall

And hinting at a spectral ship, which disappeared

Centuries ago in a wild, chaotic squall. 

 The blackened tips of breakers threaten in motion,

Seething, hissing and darkly appalling,

Whilst grim mists swirl and vent their gall.

The turbulence writhes like a row of serpents reared

With spite at its helpless prey, in a sinuous, venomous wall…


Pete Ray

15th September 2024…

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