Saturday, 1 November 2025

SOMETHING LOST... (My new poem inspired by Sue Nichol's painting...)

 Something Lost…

(Inspired by a Sue Nichol painting, ‘Day31, #boatober 2025’…)



It was a feeling that something had been lost.

Even the gulls seemed innocent in their hungry pursuit

Of the fishing boat above a pastel blue ocean 

In bright daylight, scavenging but seemingly not in dispute.


It was a feeling that a way of life has been lost.

Yet such seascapes are fundamentally at the root 

Of my attraction to the sea, a craving, a notion.

 The painting is cleverly composed, the nostalgia astute…   


Pete Ray…

31st October 2025…  


There actually is a fishing boat SM 3, a Shoreham vessel named Buccaneer B33…

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