Gannets Poems - Poems about Gannets

Whispers

...You might say, “I long to chase this path, 
As far as it can go, to witness, feel and join,
The adventures of the wanderers. 
I want to mimic them, and do as they do. 
To dance as they dance and ...

The Sea Cave's Lee

...All words and wonder, wobbling copper green
Foam and guano floating 
In the sea cave’s lee
A flock of gannets raucous on a rocky pile
And the ever-growing echo as the men came by
Climbed...

A More Beautiful Shell

...Some way from the Firth of Forth
A shoal of glittering mackerel
Swirls and sways 
Swells with the sea from silver to black 
Flashes white and back to silver and grey

A...

A Pilgrimage

...seagulls surf the wind
my escorts home
across the waves

                  streamlined gannets
                   sacred isle in view 
                      saffron tints

ocean flower breeze...

Pilgrimage

...streamlined gannets
Holy Isle in view
the long journey ends...

Raindrops Descend

...Raindrops descend, puddles form,
A stream engulfed, a river is born,
A course is set, the sea to reach,
Meandering ponderously to a far off beach.

The sea reclaims its myriad young,
Kidnapped ...

Hymn: With God Immersed

...Our God who lives, flows in waters,
drifts in clouds and glows in snow,
flashes silver fish in shallows,
darts in darkness round the rocks,
blooms afresh as showers bring flowers,	
freshens scen...

Thoughts of Arran

...The air was pure and bright. A sea-salt tingle
hovered in an easygoing offshore breeze.
In mesmerising rhythm, wavelets sloshed 
and swished along the timeworn jetty wall.
The bay was sparkling i...

Prey

...Deepest emerald sea
Steepest ascent, a spree

Whitebait shoals abounding
Await echo sounding

Attract gannets display
To extract gleaming prey


Date 11/8/21
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Gannets

...Gannets

I stood on the crag on a clear summer’s day,
And looked down to watch the surf breaking the scree,
When I heard the clamour of birds out in the bay,
And looked up to see a compan...

Our God Flies

...Our God who lives, flows in the waters,
tumbles in rivers, and drifts in snows,
flashes as silver from shoals of fish,
darts in darkness round rugged rocks,
blooms afresh as showers bring flowers...

Lifeforce

...I never thought that one day I might be
so separate and distanced from the sea,
and grey-blue mornings offering a cloak
of cushioning velvet, where once I woke
so long ago, to watch the gannets d...

When I Was Young

...The North Sea, brown, and flecked with white
That threw itself in angry spite
Against those solid stony walls
That kept the harbour safe from squalls....
Those gentle waves of blue and green
Tha...

Ashore

...margins stimulate and juxtapose
  edges greet with troubled, disturbing friction
  faraway forces exert influence and combine relentlessly
  how the Sun and Moon dance together about the planet Ea...

The New Job

...Holy Isle, grey-swathed and indistinct,
Deep musing on a half-light winter morn,
No random moment this, so surely linked
To days he'd lived in dreams of Arran.
Rhythmic the breaking waves upon th...

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