Brighton…
(Inspired by Sarah Evans’ artwork…)
Disfigured metal lengths, worn
And rent from a once solid structure
Claw from the dull ocean,
Like an intrepid crab’s legs approaching the shore,
Its skeletal frame foreboding and surreal…
The folly remains, weeping tearful scorn
For its own rued life-blood and tincture
Of laughter, music, conversation and emotion,
Footsteps, scoldings, screams and the furore
Of amusements, once the attraction with
boisterous appeal…
A glum curtain of storm and sea around the torn
Pier, adds to the crude rusting and fracture,
Weathering the monstrosity further into erosion,
As a sodden sandy beach retreats from what is in store
From the threat posed by the serpent of mangled steel…
Pete Ray…
26th December 2025…
Love this painting, partly because I saw the mangled and damaged pier in 2007 and instead of looking away from it, I was drawn in by its charm and took a couple of photos with a very basic camera…
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