The air is sharp this morning
'Tis Sunday and the sun-drenched town still
sleeps.
The chink of bottles heralds the early morning
milk.
Noisily a blackbird hammers his breakfast
snail.
Cobwebs brush the cheek.
The sun-lit sea scintillates.
Lone lobster-fisher hauls his pots.
Overhead a solitary gull wheels and watches.
Worm casts make a myriad miniature mountains
'midst the moss,
Shells and variegated pebbles shimmer in the sun.
Only man's handiwork offends,
Plastic buckets, bottles,
Marine bric-a-brac from the morning tide.
A crab scuttles from a nearby rock
And dew still glistens on the waving grass.
Douglas R. Tallet, September 1971
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"To an absent one" | Written at the time of Richard’s first leaving home to go to Newcastle University |
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"Wishing" | Also written at this time, which appears to have been quite traumatic for Dad |
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"Summer beach" | A word picture of Redcar beach on a busy Summer day |
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"Coast conscious" | In praise of living at the coast |
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"They who go down to the sea" | About the sinking of a trawler on 16.02.65 |
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"For services rendered" | 25 years of employment at Head Wrightson |
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"Five day week" | Weekend pleasures away from the office |