‘Tomorrow’………Beach Towers – Part Two…… Abandonment
by Bernie Bell - 07:43 on 06 September 2022
Tomorrow
Prehistoric
The cormorant flies on by, low over the bay
I feel myself regarded by her cold saurian eye
But, no. That’s just my fancy
I’m an irrelevance
Always and forever an anachronism
Hard times, but she finds fish, engulfs
Spews into reaching gullets in a nest of stink
Me? And my kind?
A brief iridescent bubble of consciousness
A scar. Soon healed. Assimilated
And is that all there is?
In truth, that’s paradise enough
To be joined to, and made by, our nearest star
Through a planet’s joyful pigment
Oh, the joy and the agony of it!
To have our time in the garden
Even carrying the seeds of authorship of our own destruction
Of course we should still strive
Strive for peace, our full humanity
To achieve that green transition
Be one with that will to become
Only inaction is futile
Cormorant, and what follows cormorant and us
Will continue the thread
Until one day this planet
One of countless billions of planets
Boils away into space in the fire of an exploding sun
Stardust
McB 12th March 2022
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Beach Towers – Part Two
You might remember this…. http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=15899
We walked to the Bay on a windy, showery day to find that the mystery builder had raised another tower next to the first one, looking a bit like a giant, striding the beach…….
…..and something of the Eiffel Tower about it too……
The old Rendall Parish Kirkyard https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/10/07/the-old-kirks-of-orkney-part-one/ framed between the two towers….
And at the opposite end of the Bay – the headland is framed…
I believe this person to be a wizard, who casts a spell to make the top-stones stay in place….’Lithica Petrifactium!’
And then…the tide came in….
Even wizards can't contol the tides....
PS
A-ha! Neighbour Steve was talking with the mystery builder/wizard - a mystery no more - he’s called Bradford Spencer…. https://bradfordspencer.myportfolio.com/home ..... here on holiday.
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Abandonment…..
Visit & images by Steve Davey – words by BB
It’s one of those houses, on an island, where the people left - leaving something of their lives behind them……
The kitchen/living room still looks ‘lived in’ with an old armed-chair by the fire-place…..
One tap – the only source of water – still better than going out to the well in all weathers…..
Why a drum kit in the bed-room? Orkney is known for musical talent – maybe there wasn’t much room to spare for such a big object?
Lives lived - memories – now standing empty.
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Here’s one I made earlier………. https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/04/12/orkney-walks-yesnaby/
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