Beadlet Anemone

By onemorething

Sun, 26 Jul 2020
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A sea does not journey without obstacle,

it divides and foams across stone,

a slave to tides, it swirls, waves

over the living and dead it carries -

all passengers, all hungry for something

as it gasps the friction of their stories

upon shingle or sand.  Or here,

meeting land, it casts itself onto rocks,

blasts new water into the worlds

of the cut-off, the alienated,

those adapted to ravage: 

beadlet anemones worn by pools

as if they were bloody wounds

that exposed their suffering, toxic,

lashing out whips of survival

where life involves many forms of fighting.

 

Image from wikimedia commons: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aberdour_bay,_beadlet_anemone_in_rock-pool_-_geograph.org.uk_-_824521.jpg

On Twitter also: 

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Actiniaria.jpg

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Comments

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

A gripping poem Rachel, the ocean has many stories to tell, this is one.

My kind of poem indeed.

Jenny

 

Submitted by onemorething on

Thanks Jenny, I wrote it for National Marine week and the theme of rockpools for a Twitter challenge. Glad you liked it. :)

 

Submitted by Nolan on

The poem is lovely, it reminded me of my childhood, and then nearer towards the end the fight for survival, harsh, cruel "eat or be eaten". Anyway it is beautiful.

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Submitted by onemorething on

Hi Nolan, thank you very much for your comment and for reading it. I suppose that is what inspired me about the creatures who live in rockpools, their tenacity and resilience, how they have adapted to survive a difficult environment. I suppose that those of us who have experienced our own rockpools can identify with that. Thanks again for your lovely comment. Rachel :)

 

Submitted by Nolan on

Yes Rachel, and do you know that old song "Picking up pebbles and throwing them into the sea .. ..

And also to you for your kind reply I thought you could pehaps misunderstand my comment.

See you! &

 

Submitted by onemorething on

No I don't know the song, I will look it up if I can from that line. And of course, I didn't misunderstand you at all. :)