Best Foreshore Poems

On the foreshore of memory
Consciousness works overtime
Trying to decipher what is to come
In the depth of the iceberg of the mind
The future is....

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A constant charging and retreating,
leaving behind the soaking sand,
is the ever changing of the tide,
pushing the sea against the land.

And all along the changing shoreline,
Pacific...

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A butterfly's flight,
Lost in the foreshore of the night;
With tears in her eyes,
She hung from the trees and cried.

Her gaze met mine,
And in that moment,...

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At day's end, I take in the last light
seeping into the dark waters
across the bay and keep it here.
I gather the sound of departing gulls
smudged...

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1. Her intonations and vast vocabs are so sharp
on this impossible slope, I’ll reduce the gap
such crush from all gives a sense of stability
she knows...

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At this harbor, I'm welcoming you as the moon in the middle of the mist
Even Victoria’s keel [1] takes some tears back home, the southern...

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I come to this little cove often -
 no work, I have time to burn.
See Asians plunder its foreshore,
 I still fish - show no...

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"Into the Ultramarine"


barefoot along the path down to the beach
the memories follow me like seagulls
either side the honour guard of scarlet coastal banksia
and the sharp...

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Chapter

The alcove beside the fire place 
Oft-times spoke about their restive days 
Those from the falls of sobs through the beams of smiles
As we live...

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THE CRIPPLED

Walking toward foreshore
I saw the devil seated on a fence
Fishing
Next day I heard he got a thrashing
It was intense
Blood trickled from his core
He would...

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When I think of my father my heart
starts beating in time with his 7 A.M.
footsteps on hardwood floors. 
His image rests in the second chamber

of...

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SAND LESS BEACH- A Haiku

unfriendly foreshore
a little, bad hammer swims
beyond the sand less

mud color red clay
water dissipated skies
fish hidden gone where

capture unfriendly
a cross eyed, mad...

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By foreshore brink
A curious think


The lakeside draught
Hurls icy stuff


Cold air swirls flair
To flush cold fare


We walk around
Chilly strides ground


Lovely flats here
Prompt cost most clear


Hot coffee...

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Setting sun carved a path over the Humber
From Hessle right across the river bend
To join the banks at Ferriby Foreshore
Where that path came to its...

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Sun strike horizon white triangle 
Erases deep turquoise in thin ice
Steady spiral turn winds triumph
Explores sea bed, drilled precise

Turned ground pleads for mercy
Surrenders dug out...

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