Let’s walk together

06/01/2021 – Poem a Day Compilation



Let’s walk together, side by side,

Alone together, you and I

Along the shore as day breaks

Wandering under a golden sky



As the sun peaks its head

Over the horizon out at sea

The rocks do glow ‘neath my foot

Radiant and warming under me



We’ll pass by purple periwinkles

Their little shells so fine

Coiled so very beautifully

Along the rocky shoreline



We’ll step delicately over lichens

Being careful not to slip

On mosses firmly holding tight

To rocks where they do dip



In the small and shallow pools

Left by receding tides

Barnacles cling tirelessly

To submerged and sunken sides



There’ll be limpets by the thousand

Holding fast to the bare rock

Awaiting the tide to rise

Like a ship at the dry dock



Cautious crabs, in the meanwhile,

Will scurry away and hide

But we’ll be able to spot one

If our time we carefully bide



If we’re lucky we’ll get to see

Urchins spiky and small

Tucked up into crevices

By the battered, old sea wall



In those deep and darker pools

Anemones might be found

Flowers of the ocean

Waratahs tightly bound



Further still is the golden sand

Untrampled by festive feet

While seagulls search the seaweed

For something tasty for them to eat



Be mindful where you tread, my friend,

There are things the sting and bite

They lurk in the seaweed washed ashore

The pain of which will set your foot alight



Out on the sand lies yet more pain

If you’re bare foot should happen to touch

The tentacles stretched out behind the jelly –

The blue bottle really is too much.



There are glorious things around here

The brilliant red of a starfish or two

Glistening in the breaking day

The water adding magic to its hue



The early morning swimmers

Brave the ocean pools cool water

Their cossies hug them tightly

Their colourful caps pulled tauter



They should be on the lookout, though,

As they clamber in and out

For little blue ringed octopus

Find homes here round about



If they’re lucky they’ll see below them

Small fish going about their day

Not interested in their human companions

Except when they get in the way



As you look out across the waves

A fin or a tail may flicker by

And if by chance you may happen to glimpse

A dolphin leaping to the sky



Sometime there are pods of whales

Snaking up this all too familiar coast

One day I’ll take you out in my yacht

To watch these majestic beasts boast



What you don’t really want to see

At least when playing in the break

Is a shark hunting for a meal

Then you really know you’re awake



So, let’s walk together, you and I,

Along this superbly stunning way

That causes my heart to flutter

More and more each day