Taming the Beach The beach lost its bite As the sea retreated in a rush. The sand settled to silence The pebbles muted, toothless. Dunes resolute, steadfast, unyielding, Beach chatter becalmed, undisturbed. Wind breath & wave crash quelled, All stilled, placated, unperturbed. ________ I love the sea. It instills such complete calm in me. Photo: The beach and English Channel, Eastbourne, UK #sea #ocean calm #peace #mindfulness

The Shadow Waves The shadow waves begin When the sea light Shines with last gold. And motes of soft spray Dissolve to salt On the evening winds, And the gulls fall silent. The shadow waves begin. Come! they beckon, A rhythm sound. Come!, drink our peace, Absorb the calm. You'll not find it Away from the shore. The shadow waves begin. Risen in anticipation, yet Crest-fallen with sadness. As the night ushers in darkness And returns the wave watchers, Sand sodden and pebble

Lifeforms by the Sea Fading shoreline and The evening watchers Mingle with the waves. Expectant for the Final sun colours. Fire flame pulled To a horizon. Extinguished to purpling Orange and crimson, The light coalesces, Seared to retinas. Memories burning pleasant. And the glow Of sea dark, Wraps the lifeforms In happy thoughts. Wave light recedes To abandoned shoreline. The evening watchers Sated and silent, Leave as silhouettes. Lifeforms fading to

Night's Approach (Sea Light Fading) Night's approach. The final dance Of the sea light. Until clouds rest In the blanket black. Seagulls tire of Squawk and caw. Muffled waves break On undisturbed shores, As night brings The silent comfort. And light slowly slips, Like sand flowing Between sky-fingers. The sea light lingers. The last sparks Of a happy day. Make way for The stillness of Night's approach. _________________________________ English Seasid

Seaside Drinker Bar stool tumbles and peanuts scatter, A mumbled, fume soaked apology. His face wears a faint borrowed smile, Creased with life, folded in And lost to the past time. Years that disappeared like the last dregs, Drained from the spit smeared pint glass. Blurred and fog-bound, clouded over. The smile erased to misery. As darkness resumed its residence, Clinging to the soot black rings Hanging sad under bloodshot eyes. Each vein fiery, forked, venom

I'm always wave bound Wrapped in gentle breaking swells Lost in the backwash #seaside #sea #waves #thoughts #haiku

Hope deserted me on a distant shore Tide weary, pebble strewn and waves implored, Do not stand upon this cold listless beach, Watching each breaking crest, fall out of reach. The seabirds will mock and caw in disdain As they spy tears that mix with spray and rain. And winds begin to sound their mournful wail While the clouds spit and sting with raging hail. Face the sea, shingle groans and constant sighs Where the bitter bones, frozen marrow lie. And walk away from the advanc

The Sea Wastes The greyscale and pallid skies Pitifully stared upon the sea wastes. Turbulent, unending and saddened calls Wave upon mournful wave collapsing Onto a silent shore, bereft and lifeless. Where single cries absorbed to shingle memory. The laughing gulls patrolled the windswept seafront, Mocking the silence, piercing the sea memories. Oh happy shores! When sunlight was warmth And life. And the waves were an infinite pleasure. Not each wave that endlessly b

Sea Silence Stood in sea quiet The infinite waves calming Repeated silence _____________________________ There is no more peaceful experience than standing by a becalmed sea, listening to it's silence. #sea #ocean #silence #quiet #calm #peace #mindfulness

Blue Flag Coke bottle Sanitary pad Dirty nappy Dog poo bag Crisp packets Cardboard takeaway box Discarded combs and hairbrush Unwanted pair of socks Waves of Styrofoam cups Carrier bags here for life Sandwich packaging wrappers Plastic forks, spoons and knives Fishing lures and fishing line Wrapped around coloured plastic bags Washed up on a soiled golden beach Proudly displaying billowing Blue Flags And so the daily clean-up begins As dusk and twilight descends But the next

The Sea-Winter Last light by the shore And the town folk idly walk, Listening to the waves That tintinnabulate Among the myriad pebbles, The sound a discordant reminder That once darkness emerges From the grey crepuscular light, The sea quietens. Dampened in the small hours, But is never silenced. And the town folk stroll And drink in the brine-air Fortified and reinvigorated On the sea-winds. Reminiscing with salt lips And joy in their thoughts. The sea remains as they do

Cross Channel Voices We'll take a ferry to Calais Spend all our money on duty free We'll take a dinghy to Dover Spend all our money on a smugglers fee We'll stand on the deck In the stiffening breeze We'll cling on for our lives In unforgiving seas We'll laugh and joke And sleep and eat and drink We'll cry in silent fear, Hoping the boat won't sink We'll talk of holidays In Spain, Italy, the Greek Islands and France We'll talk of survival, of life, If given the chance

Ocean Depth We will only truly Appreciate the depth Of the oceans, When there is no more life Contained within them And they echo with silence. #ocean #sea #socialcomment #environment

Shimmer Light translucent plays, Catches the eye As the sun shines Across a peaceful sea. Eacy wave trying To outdo the other. Competing in sparkles, A firefly candescence of Quick silver flashes Radiant effervescent calm And endless shimmers. #light #sea #calm #peace

Sea Peace Even the sea at its wildest, In constant raging waves, Through unforgiving storms And seeming endless distress, Will calm to sunlit tranquillity. No trace of the turmoil and chaos. The roar replaced by gentle sound. Only an enduring endless peace. #sea #peace #calm #mindfulness #optimism #hope

A Shell of a Boy Hide the boy. Hide among the rockpools And seaweed tangles, That shell of a boy, In sea solitude. A lonely figure, perhaps. Driftwood lost on A beach strewn with Boyhood memories. A desired isolation, A choice to silence. That boy, hermitic Like the crab that sits Watching, unmoving For fear of being seen And being washed away, On a tide of noise And unwelcome life. Hide the boy Within his shell. Let him remain _____________________________ A shy boy, bull

Solitude by the Sea I clambered over the rocks, A shadow cast Amongst the seabirds, That dived and bobbed On purpling sunset waves. As the sea broke Crashing over the rocks, It threw spray that soaked And hid ever saltier tears. I failed to choke them back Under the fast sinking sun. Where the wind dies The sea remains, Relentless sound. Bird cry and shingle wash Pushed by spilling wave Then slowly withdrawn. Until left alone. A momentary lull and calm,

Battered Shores A battered shore Of seaweed twists And flotsam adrift On the sea wind. Wind that rages Over seas that Will not reflect The angry sky. Wave peaks froth, Whitened fury. A beauty in turmoil, A divine chaos. Be still the sea. When waning winds, At last returning calm. At rest a battered shore. #storm #weather #sea #ocean #environment #outside #outdoors #nature

The waters played Under silvered sun And cloud a-strafe Sea call sea call Spilling sparkles On a coloured beach A pebble dance To relentless waves Joining winds that Taste of brine and The gulls a-whine In cries and caws Watching the sea Counting the pebbles And every wave #sea #ocean #nature #environment #place

To Travel In Waves Stood on a windswept shore, Dodging the wash of waves, That crashed around feet that ached With the thought of movement, A desire again to travel. There is solidity and security On those shifting stones. Yet where the pebbles end, How easy it would be To give yourself to the sea. To be carried on carefree tide, Current and expectant, And arrive again. Washed upon a distant shore, Not lost, but found. Alive. _____________________________ Do you e