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To the Sea, by Train
Bucket and spade Read this poem by Elli Woollard aloud to get the full effect! Bucket and spade Bucket and spade Flip-flops, flip-flops Bucket and spade Flip-flops, flip-flops, going to the chip shops...
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‘Waves’ by Elli Woollard
Another poem that begs to be read aloud The whoosh of the waves and the play of the clouds And the smiles of delight and the yells of the crowds And the salt in the air and the sand in the toes And...
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Sea Hag Sedna
Sea Hag Sedna – a poem by Jacqui Woodward-Smith Sedna by Masha du Toit I am gasping in the shallows, floundering, the seal song of my intuition calling, calling, calling out into the steel grey sea,...
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whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea
title from: maggie and milly and molly and may by eecummings For hours and lifetimes, the chip-paper grey sky had flattened us all: Our rotted pumpkin fields lay striped with ooze and floods, And the...
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Classic Poems of the Sea
The Secret of the Sea Ah! what pleasant visions haunt me As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, All my dreams, come back to me. Sails of silk and ropes of sandal, Such as gleam in...
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A poem, a picture and a new person
Welcome to our new contributor, Ros Seddon. Here’s an image and the poem it inspired in her: The Mermaid The wind blew cold o’er the race in the bay And storm clouds raged up ahead. Out on the...
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Westward Ho!
Westward Ho! Taken from above the rock pool. In the beginning were these tolerant hills……. Still, they winter; bleak and alone I follow their well-trodden veins to reach their peaks and gaze in...
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That Spring
A fine family, but now, a rare sight. That Spring, you made the trip over a mile of water, over the rolling wakes past the rocking buoys. Bringing a fine family, soon to find their own way soon to...
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Odysseus, come home
A poem from Catherine Zgouras inspired by the beautiful Greek coast. This is a photo taken on a beach in Kefallonia accessible only yachts and boats or goat trails if you are willing to...
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The gull
His raised arm now is feathered wing……. The Gull Railings border riverbank benches where an old man sits patiently feeding sea birds stale bread with arthritic hands that shake a lifetime of crumbs...
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