The Lambeth Walk.
He doesn’t appreciate the irony. Bent over, an inverted L a right-angle of a man shuffling down the street snail pace and creaking. For some reason he’s holding his trouser leg above the ankle, swinging it a little, perhaps to help that side of his body move. Old man muttering. He moves so slowly, bent over, an inverted L a right angle of a man doing the Lambeth walk. Moon Rising over Start Bay 3rd March, 5,38pm The evening yawns, stretching out cloudy arms on the tired horizon. The fluffy ends drip the last drops of the day onto the sea as the sun sinks, leaving a sense of settling. Seventeen minutes later the full Moon appears above the clouds, rising slowly, a pale orange drunk recovering from last morning’s fall. The surface of the sea is now metallic blue-grey, a wide mirror to reflect the pitted make up of the moon as she rises into a sky. From the window of the Seaview Bed and Breakfast I watch that oddly large face opening, a vulnerable goddess gaining confidence, becoming brighter as the sky darkens. The time tips over 6pm and the sea is now entirely grey, a silken bedsheet for the Moon to lay down her trembling reflection, orange torchlight made watery by the waves. She winks at me. I consider drowning in her. Now it is 6.25pm and the sky is drenched in the dark blue of night, the sea’s silk turning to heavy wool. The Moon is bright and her image shimmers on the thick water. I walk along Torcross beach, crunching the pebbles in the panting silence, admiring her full, round beauty; I have never known such beauty before in my wi-fi, high-street, high-stressed out life. I have never heard what the sighing waves say to me now: Do not forget her. Look for her again. Published in Best of British, Paper Swan Press, UK, 2017. (The Lambeth Walk was first published in South Bank Poetry, UK, 2012).
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Poetry Biography:I have had over 70 poems published in the following worldwide magazines and literary journals: A Handful of Stones, Acta Victoriana (Canada), All the Sins (UK), The Amethyst Review (USA), Amsterdam Quarterly (NL) The Blue Nib (Ireland), Bolts of Silk, Borderless Journal, The Brasilia Review (Brazil), Bushfire Literature & Arts Review (US), Cadenza, Cake Magazine, Carillon, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), DASH (USA), Clackamas Literary Review (USA), Cooch Behar Anthology, Dawntreader, Dreamcatcher, The Dillydoun Review, Earth Love, The Ear (US), Eastlit (East Asia), Erbacce, Envoi, Finger Dance Festival, Ginosko, Gloom Cupboard, Hidden Channel, Inlandia Journal, IS&T (Ink, Sweat & Tears), Into the Void (Canada), The Journal, The Lakeview Journal (India), Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Lunch Ticket (USA) The New Writer, One Hand Clapping, Orbis, Oregon English Journal (USA), The Passage Between, Prole, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Sonic Boom (India), Third Wednesday (USA), Of Nepalese Clay (Nepal), New Contrast (South Africa), One Hand Clapping, Opportunity Publishing, The Oregon English Journal (USA) Origami Poems Project (USA), The Paddock Review (USA), Panoplyzine (USA), Paper Swan Press, The Passage Between, The Peacock Journal (USA), Pens on Fire, Poetry Salzburg (Austria), Potomac Review, (USA) Prole, Pulsar Poetry, Rear View Poetry, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Qutub Minar Review (India), Red Ink, Shiela-Na-Gig (USA), South Bank Poetry Magazine, Stand, Waterford Teachers Centre, (Ireland) We Are a Website New Literary Journal (Singapore), Weber - The Contemporary West Review (USA), Windfall (USA), Writing Magazine, Words for the Wild and Verbal Art (India). Archives
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