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Porth joke!!!! STORM CLOUDS -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton Sent: 28 December 2011 10:40 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: The bar between The Gugh and St Agnes seen from St Agnes Dear Patrick On Sat, December 24, 2011 13:17, Patrick McManus wrote: > Porth a nice word but three times is that over porthing Could be. I'll think about it. There are few alternatives; but that doesn't me off the hook > But watch out for big oral cavities er, yes L > Cheers Patrick -old cove beating incessantly !! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton > Sent: 21 December 2011 14:54 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: The bar between The Gugh and St Agnes seen from St Agnes > > > The bar is wide, the weather calmer than before. > > > The cove beats incessantly. > > > The porth's quiet. > > > Few of the bar looks that grey. It is fair or pallid. It is all > whitish. > Sun's bright. > Little contrast. Detail is difficult to find . > Is this an effect of light? or of bleaching? > of other weathering? or of disturbance bringing new stone to the bar? > > And thick strands > and tangles of seaweed. At the porth edge, some rocks are almost black > with weed, and some almost submerged by it. At the cove edge, > especially to the east, rocks, lichen brown pile up. Between those two > darknesses are whisperings, almost electrical in kind and strength; > smooth sand or ragged stone which, in dazzle, could be small broken > shells; and, yet, imagine a change of eyes' angle, observers, being > seen, disclose differences. > > The bend of dark weed at the full cove edge, like to a beach turn but > at tighter angle, breaks out patchily into the white as if black had > been spat, albeit from a giant mouth. > > Identify the evidence; and pause; > consider many possibilities. Undoubtedly, closer looking dispels the > illusion of discharge. One must think so, in lieu of a big oral cavity. > If one appears, then we must improvise. > All of us. The cowards, the wise, the brave, the indolent, the > uninvolved, ignorant, and fools, all of me, huddled here, waiting. > > The eastern coast of the porth is dark, hardly the bar at all, part of > The Gugh itself, spotted by grey stones partly buried in growth; and, > between that and the emitted incursion, grey stones an oddness, darker > than broken colour, all shading dimly steadily towards the sea. Near > sands are patchily bright. > > > It's almost black > on each coast; but perspective dominates and restricts the visibility. > Whiteness > fails variegated with few dark stones. There are many small bits, > which increases a faceting of the whole. They sparkle: probably mica's > high-reflectivity. > > The sands are heavily trodden; flattening; barren. > > > > > ----- > UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton > 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover > Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4 > wfuk.org.uk/blog ---- > > ----- UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4 wfuk.org.uk/blog ----