Elizabeth Jane Timms is back with another poem in her Cornish themed mini-series. Her third offering, Cornish Song was influenced by the devastating beauty of Polridmouth Cove Beach. The other poems in Elizabeth’s series can be found here here.
I threw my love for you into the sea and you looked back,
In its eternal blue green gaze, tossing upon the waves its feverish passion,
As I sewed stars upon the sky with my needle, on its night velvet.
Looking out from the little window of the ruined castle,
I lay my head upon a rock and I watched the shadows of shipwrecks
Loom over the waves, silvered by the moon’s wand –
And my heart was as a barnacle upon a rock,
Remembered only by seagulls.
This was our affection in edges:
My drawing closer as your tide pulled away,
And my retreating as you came in,
Pursuing my love when I withdrew it
And pulling away when I ran towards you.
© Elizabeth Jane Timms 2019
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Title Image Credit: Polridmouth beach (Nilfanion [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]
