Poem:When I look down toward the beach, Image Gallery from the Irish coast.

Images Of the Coast at Allihies, County Cork, Ireland
Irish Landscape photography : Nigel Borrington

Poem from the Irish coast line.

When I look down toward the beach,
the distant pier seems to stride
forward from the shining sea.
I like to look beyond,
to the bands of turquoise and blue,
an ocean painted in bold,
abandoned strokes.

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Why are we drawn to the waves?
Those elemental rhythms,
sounds and colours
of a primary world,
where sparse pointillist spots
busy themselves on
yellow-ochre sands.

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Some days the morning
unfolds through mists,
groynes spacing out
the distances along the strand,
until a final fade-out,
well before the sea
can meet the sky.

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Overhead, pterodactyl shapes
patrol against fresh patches
of blue. As I approach,
the blurred semblances
of buildings appear, rectangles
feathered violet or grey,
as if stepping off the cliff.

Images of Allihies : Nigel Borrington

December 3, 2013 | Categories: Gallery, Landscape, Poetry Gallery, Travel Locations | Tags: Allihies, Cork, fishing in ireland, Ireland, Ireland Irish Landscape Photography, Irish coast, Irish photography, Nigel Borrington, poems, poetry | 8 Comments