Monday, 7 July 2025

ANTONY GORMLEY'S MAN OF IRON, STANDING... (My poem about sculptures on the beach at Great Crosby, Liverpool...)

 Antony Gormley’s Man of Iron, Standing...



Blank. 

Blind to the bland, distant, grey waters...

Expressionless, motionless.

An inattentive, unemotional

Merseyside permanence...

Clinging weed flapping at lichen,

Like the torn wrappings

On the excavated, ancient, mummified elite.

It awaits a slurping tide to rise

And slash at it with venom

Then engulf its glum form,

Anchored by rusting, leprous feet...


Dismay.

Discontented on the distressed, dark, flat mud...

Barnacled, disfigured.

A moronic, horrific

Sculpted presence...



Pete Ray 




The Antony Gormley parade of interesting iron 

figures on and around Great Crosby’s beach, 

Liverpool. 





Saw them in 2013…





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