Haiku Around The Coast
The sun sets on a
Calm Margate shoreline, wave soaked
Fresh with orchard scents
Cold windy cliff top
Dover's miserable grey seas
School-tied comradeship
Eastbourne sunshine coast
Where tennis and seagulls play
Pier and promenade
To Portsmouth history
And ships of old HMS
Victory and Mary Rose
Across Solent shores
An aging Bournemouth at rest
Sandy retirements
Lands End reached at last
Tourist trap desolate and
Wild, not much to sea
A Cornish journey
Of beaches, crags and pasties
But winter silence
Weston-Super-Mare
Tides out and mud clings to boots
Sunset fish n chips
Severn Bridge Crossing
Tidal bore carries language
English a Chymraeg
In Cardiff splendid
Bay life is relaxed araf
Mountains cry hiraeth
Poetic Mumbles
Dylan Thomas Swansea leaves
For Fern Hill once more
Aberystwyth dark
And gothic buildings glower
Tasting Irish sea
Holyhead at the
end of the line, a one horse
Town where the horse left
Liverpool humour
Decorates streets and history
While the music plays
Belfast - Titanic
Struggles, but at peace, and warm
Welcomes, so there are
At Giant's Causeway
Hexagon Geology
And mythology
O'er the water
To Fort William and the Glens
Lochs under dreich skies
John O'Groats windswept
Distant - End to End, but which
The start or finish?
Inverness where the
Loch contains the real secret
Monstrous tourist tales
Edinburgh - Highland
Gateway, cross the Firth of Forth
Ever painted bridge
Black and white city
Newcastle! Howay tha lads!
A sign of the Tyne
The Monkey Hangers
Braced against Hartlepool waves
In seaport spindrift
Scarborough cliff top
Sweeping bay panoramas
Yorkshire accent gulls
Cleethorpes hums with the
Smell of a neighbouring town
Fishy in Grimsby
Lights flash and bells ring
Arcades by drab drizzle beach
Great Yarmouth at play
Isle of Sheppey to
The Medway's historic towns
Margate -Thanet's end
