Monday, 10 February 2025

THE TOWN... (My new poem inspired by August Strindberg's 1903 painting...)

 The Town…

(From August Strindberg’s 1903 painting…)



Mind wandering, sitting alone, troubled, confused.

The isolation indeterminate, the mood captured

By dark, heavy, threatening cloud blundering 

Above an ocean and slick boulders, its grim chaos diffused

Into coils and broils of swirling chaos, ruptured

By a deafening squall’s malice, thundering…


The town offers but a slim hope of salvation,

Its curious celestial glimmer like gold in stone;

A precious light, a lure, a glinting invitation

To a soul whose hope has so nearly gone…  


Pete Ray

10th February 2025…

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