toppling to the beach
stroke of sandy crumbling dunes
ragged with marram
kisses the concrete sea wall
and slides into churning waves
Kim M. Russell, 2015
toppling to the beach
stroke of sandy crumbling dunes
ragged with marram
kisses the concrete sea wall
and slides into churning waves
Kim M. Russell, 2015
What wonderful energy!
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Thank you! That’s one of the reasons I love the North Norfolk landscape. Everyone says Norfolk is flat but it has hidden undulations in the sea and the sky. Sadly, our coastline is eroding. I wrote a couple of poems about that which I posted back in October.
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I agree. I had never been to Norfolk until two weeks ago. Now that I’ve been, I will tell people of its salt marshes and its birds, its sea waves and its seals. I noticed the erosion – I shall take a look at your poems.
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Great instant picture !
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I took that in February 1993 when we thought the storms of 1953 would be repeated. Everyone in our village was woken up in the early hours of a Sunday morning and we watched the sea breach a barrier and wash a police car down a ramp, taking several people with it. It was my first experience of a spring tide, having moved from London to Norfolk the previous year. The closest I had been to floods was the Thames overflowing in Twickenham!
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De rerum novarum in Norfolk. I see. Hugs by Rinaldo from Venice Italy 🌻
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A beautiful and very strong tanka full of energy … and that photo … wow.
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Thank you, Kristjaan!
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I took the photo in 1993 – it was our first experience of the tides off the North Norfolk coast.
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I love the energy depicted in these dunes…such vitality!
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Thank you, Cheryl!
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