My response to Jane Dougherty’s Poetry challenge #26: Constanza
The sea is an ever present ghost
Lapping at the landscape’s edges
Pulling at its seams and stitches
Gulls survey from groyne and post
Low dunes, marrams and wave explosion
Sea encroachment and erosion
All along the Norfolk coast
Towns, hamlets and villages
Dwindle to scattered communities
Haunted by a maritime past
Ships wrecked by storm and wave
And many a sailor’s watery grave
The coastline is disappearing fast
Where the surging breakers crash and roll
The behemoth will claim its toll
© Kim M. Russell, 2016
writing in north norfolk 
You didn’t cheat much 🙂 I love that first stanza. It could stand on its own.
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Thanks Jane 🙂
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Loved it!
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😊
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Lovely–it has a sort of rolling rhythm like the sea.
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Ah, my work is done 😊
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🙂
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Beautiful poem. Haunting to borrow a word.
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I love large bodies of water and this poem speaks of life by the sea–I could deeply feel the image you created in the first stanza and polished off with ‘behemoth’–a powerful creature–it felt very real, realistic, and powerful. (the poem truly speaks for itself–I’m just trying to say a little more than ‘I really like it’)
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Thank you so much, Janice 😀
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