Tuesday Poetry: “from the hill”
from the hill
boats turn
at their moorings,
facing into the wind:
I can see every
shift in the weather
from up here,
she says, standing
at my shoulder —
the boats better
than any
weathervane…
we take our tea
out, onto a deck
made of timber
from old hulks
dredged out
of harbour mud,
she speaks
of the home to
which she does
not return, of the
much younger man
who will not let
her go — nor she him —
turns again to watch
the boats, talks
of a change
in the wind.
(c) Helen Lowe
First published in Takahe 62, 2007
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Recently I’ve been posting poems that are broadly themed around “the sea” and this is a favourite among my own poems that fits into that category.
So as we begin the wind down into the Christmas-New Year break (or windup for some, I’m sure!) I thought I’d share it with you here. Enjoy! 🙂
Prior ‘Sea’ Poems (in this current feature sequence) include:
“Dover Beach” (Excerpt) by Matthew Arnold
“Breathing You In” by David Gregory
“We are more than half water” by Helen Rickerby
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The Seafarer” Excerpt from the Anglo Saxon poem (Anonymous)
Two Short Poems by Bernadette Hall
“The woman who swims with jellyfish” by Janice Freegard
“the rough sea” — a haiku by Matsuo Bashō
“beachcombing” — a haiku by Helen Lowe
“Ti” by Helen Lowe (Again! How does that work? Oh, it’s m’own blog, that’s right… 😉 )
