Wednesday, August 28, 2019

POTTERY




On a shoreline shaped by heaven’s potter -
Wet sand shining like glossed terra cotta -
Day’s end bequests another work of art
Under skies set with clouds, halfway sunny:
Peaceful pictures that soothe a ruined heart
As sandhills laze, bleached pale as creamed honey,
Beside sky-dyed sea singing and talking,
With pearly foam dancing on curling waves,
And graceful gulls swooping, soaring, squawking,
While whipbirds crack calls from scrubby enclaves.
Then when the weary sun dips low and sets
Fire to frills of any cloud that lingers,
Comes creations no child of clay forgets –
Flourishes fresh from the artist's fingers.


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