Storm Swirls Round Withered Groynes…
(From Sue Nichol’s painting of Sandsend, Whitby, North Yorkshire…)
Pastel and cruel blues, and darker, sinister hues
Cascade upon and wrap themselves about the remnants
And stubs of Sandsend’s battered groynes, silhouetted
Like crude, charred totem poles, their carvings
Weatherbeaten and disfigured to ugly and gnarled,
Or lightning-struck trunks of smitten trees…
Jaundiced light, like squeezed lemon, imbues
Itself into the ragged, atrocious North Sea tide, a penance
For the fair weather beach of soft sand, so feted
By expectant visitors with their seaside cravings.
And still the rapacious ocean, its waves unfurled
Swirl round the withered posts and smother and tease…
Pete Ray…
30th October 2025…
A dramatic painting of Sandsend beach by Sue Nichol with its splendid weathered groynes…
BELOW: images taken during my visits to Sandsend...
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