Heavy tide inhales wind and gasps out chilly salty spray, tangles tongues with rain, spattering the windscreen with Neptune’s saliva. Waves wallop the sea wall – no gulls today. In the dry heat of the car, a disembodied voice on the radio mourns the devastation of last night’s storm. The car behind sounds its horn. […]
Tag: Seascape
Seascape with Lighthouse
Waves scream gulls, they flutter sand and scribble chaos in their wake, snatch stones and rocks in foamy hands, rampage on cliffs until they break. Matchstick fishing boats struggle to resist, their anchors taut against the tide, but rollers coil and undertow persists, anchors are dragged and ropes untied. On the cliffs and on the […]
Seascape
I’m hyping myself up for a visit to Mum in the care home today, so I tried escaping to one of my favourite places – the sea. Under mackerel sky Gulls wheel on buffeting wind Waves smash rocks and reefs With a dull rumbling thunder Making the sulphurous air quiver Far as eye can see Wrinkled […]
Coastal Symphony
I recently came across some poems I scribbled in October 1992 and thought I’d have a go at rewriting some of them. Here’s one: The meeting of sky and sea Is a tempestuous affair Where the North wind conducts its symphony On a rugged coastline of grass and air Punctuated by squalling seagulls flying […]
Turning of the Tide
A tanka for the last Friday of this November Turning of the tide Shifts shape and mood of seascape Small boats creak and groan In watercolour rainbows And a gush of salty foam © Kim M. Russell, 2015
writing in north norfolk 