A lovely walk ’til adrift in drizzle

By Rhiannonw

Sat, 21 Sep 2013
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A beautiful walk along the cliff path,
sunlight on the ocean – glowing bands,
islands dark in silhouette,
heather, gorse, grass, fresh sea air.
Returning to the car on an inland route,
instructions unclear,
drizzle blows in,
steadily increasing,
can’t see or figure out how far
how near to here,    
is the place where we parked the car …
did we miss those landmarks?
Get out the GPS
– will pinpoint where we are
(grid reference);
on the screen, a wiggly-line map
of our trail, he sees,
with just a little gap
the circle to complete,
so chose a path to walk,
and watched the circle start to close
(not quite ‘following your nose’) –
soon in the dry, car heater blows
warming us through,
and drying soaking clothes.

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Countryside explorations
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Comments

Submitted by Bee on

I loved this, Rhiannon. An adventure, possibly better to look back on, but reading this, you really get the feeling and atmosphere of the occasion, and at the start, the beauty of the scene. 

Bee

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Glad you got a taste of it, Bee!

Our children clubbed together for us to have a GPS - I think it was for my husband's 60th - they felt they wanted to look after us in our wanderings! but this was the first time I think that we had made this kind of use of it, and it certainly saved some time. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

Nice poem. I can relate to the getting lost bit in Cornwall not long ago. Tintagel to Port Isaac along the coast path was the plan!     Elsie

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Elsie. Sounds a long walk, lovely if conditions are right, though, I expect. The inland circling back to where you started always seem a bit harder to negoitate on walk instructions.

Rhiannon

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

A great scenic walk you took the reader on in this poem Rhiannon,  but then you are always good at taking us the reader along with you. Thank you for the lovely read.  Jenny.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Jenny, so glad you enjoyed.

warm regards, Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Denzella on

Hello Rhiannon,

I also took that cliff walk with you and much enjoyed it was even though we got soaking wet.

Moya.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Nice memories then! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by jeand on

Hi Rhiannon

I am enjoying going through your old writing, and finding such adventures as this. I like the way you use words to punctuate your feelings.

Jean

Jean Day

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Yes, quite a mixture that day! Such lovely views (Llyn peninsula, holiday), but the first time we'd realised how useful the GPS could be - seeing the circle complete as we walked in the right direction. Thank you for the comment. Rhiannnon