Night Sounds over the Wirral Peninsula
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Night Sounds over the Wirral Peninsula
Liverpool
Platonic Friendship ~ A Glimpse
The lateness of the hour,
Oh it doesn't matter!
Let's just enjoy the view
Birkenhead before us
And Brighton-Le-Sands too.
Look at the ferry
Yes - it's the last one too
Yeah I know that, I guess
that's why it's ploughing through!
Yep - I guess some sore head
is going to be for a barrowful tonight
Yeah I think so too
But they were good lads really
Just out for the fun
and the girls too ...
Hey doesn't Liverpool look great
at night!
Yep it sure does tip the scales
from Newcastle, but only just.
They have three bridges
Yeah - we've got the three Graces
True
But then they've got the angel of the north too!
Ummm
I guess we'll call it a draw - wye aye lad!
Oh come off it, you'll be telling me when the boat
comes in if we carry on like this!
So anyway.
Am I going to meet your folks at all?
Yeah, course you are
Yeah but when? You always seem to put it off
No I don't
Yes you do
Well it's not every house that doesn't just have
a gay coloured door
Who are you calling a door?
No you know what I mean
Yes I do, you're embarrassed
and hope I'll go away
But look! You can't live life like that
You mark my words you'll live in denial
And you'll crucify yourself
And do untold damage to all those
who mean the most to you
Be up front
Sod the bigots
Tell 'em where to go
It's their problem, not yours
Nah! Don't agree.
Don't need to crusade
though I grant we need to throw a hand
But don't feel obliged
Just enjoy life
Make the most of it
Live it in the way He meant you to
I promise He won't kick arse
It's the priests and pastors who do that
Ummm! I guess you're right there too.
What a mess this world is in ...
The hell on earth that so many have to live
... it gets worse by the day
Yeah, I know
And I also know that I feel like panicking
whenever I feel like that Pearl Harbor Nurse
who drops the tray amidst the bombs
"I don't know what to do!"
Hey, come on, this is depressing.
Stop it.
We've got life
True. Soz mate.
Let's live it to the full
Let's not worry about what others think
Let's enjoy each day
as He would have us do
Let's live in memory of our forbears
Let's remember their sacrifices too
All the trials and tribulations
of family histories
And yet still we find ourselves here
on this Point
looking out to Sea
Birkenhead to our left
and now Brighton Lighthouse afore us.
A long pause ... each pondering
Ehrmmm! You say all that
and it sounds great
another pregnant pause
All very eloquent and from the heart
I'm sure
But you don't follow it through
Silence - long - catching the Bell sounding off the Brighton Lighthouse
A long draw on the ciggie
The light in the ash the only glow in the darkness
Can you see that Lighthouse from your window?
Yep, I look at it every day
It helps me to get my bearings
even though its beam is long extinguished
But I have this other beam
Oh yeah? Which one
This one
Well I can't see any beam!
You must have had too much to drink again!!
Nah! I'm teetotal
Then it's al them blinking antibios you're on, tehehe!
Or else the caffeine!!
Oh yeah!!
No it's this beam
This silver line across a silver sea
THIS is my path, my beam
THIS is my equilibreum
It leads me always to light
THE Light
So I know I'm safe
Another glow of ash and the warmth of silence
I like that you know - the silver path
Yeah - and it reminds too of something
I wrote at school too
Yeah?
Yeah. A poem about my family's holidays
in Cornwall
I've lost it long ago
But two lines stick in my memory
Yeah? Which ones?
Sand in one's sandwiches
Grit in one's teeth!
Oh brilliant
That's just what we had here on Crosby beach too
Come on
Race you back to mine
Okay
First back puts the kettle on
Yeah. And don't let Lady out again you prat
You took me half the night last time to find her
Ha-ha! Yeah but then when can a Puma
take on a Merc?!!!!
June 28, 2022
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LIVERPOOL
© 2023 Kenneth Thomas Webb
Last published March 19, 2021
First written September 7, 2006 (Friday 2.06am)
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
