Sunday 17 October 2010

Beach walk


I walked along the beach a couple of days ago and saw: vultures feasting on a dead dog and a dead penguin; a pair of sea eagles, several albatross; South Atlantic skuas and sandpipers. The sea was rough and the wind was high. I saw no one else along a mile stretch and it certainly cleared my head. The photo shows the view of the beach from the church promontory.

8 comments:

  1. About three or four years ago i cycled unwillingly into a hedge on my way to the railway station; when i arrived in the coffee shop on platform 1 very disshevelled and affronted; an essex man said to me, you wanna keep to the roads love.

    So on to you, stay out of wet places Storey; then by Gad you won't fall in

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  2. Drowning by numbers

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  3. Far too dangerous to swim off this beach so rest assured (acknowledgements to Stevie Smith): not drowning but waving.

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  4. A penguin?! Wow! Now I understand why you moved to Brazil...

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  5. Yes I understand (not drowning but waving).

    I wrote "this is for her" because she was something - we all loved her work because we could read it and then breathe it; so much of poetry over here is oxbridge; or completely clever and dull.

    Over here i went to the TUC event yesterday; on the news they compare and contrast our meek mild mannered "protests" to those in France at the moment;

    I didnt really understand the question, about wishful thinking; I don't wish anymore for things; mostly i read (just like Gore!!!!!!)

    Exogamous, sententious aphorisms
    febrile chaffering
    the acme of the poem


    Wear me like a soft diamond-encrusted
    chain around your neck.
    Skip over every syllable of confusion and
    grow to love the wordless images

    Then hang me, suspended, woebegone
    amidst their wilful cracked and cranky scraps.

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  6. I think that I still get confused between the anons and I appeal again for some small distinguishing feature in anon posts.

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  7. Andrey - The only penguins that come ashore here are dead ones - they drift up the coast from Argentina (and beyond). Sometimes there are large numbers of them - victims of global warming. Not that I am saying that mankind is necessarily responsible for it - as the evidence isn't really there - it could all just be part of the earth's natural cycles.

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