Beauty Strode Along the Beach

POETRY

BEAUTY STRODE ALONG THE BEACH

Beauty Strode Along the Beach
He sat quietly
She sat quietly beside him
He sat quietly
Sex lay close by
At daybreak Beauty summoned her companion
Their charges slept
The last flicker…
Coffee on the tide’s turn
Life
Freedom
Perspective

***


He sat quietly

The embers from their fire

lighting his soul

Ravenlike … 

Shimmering beauty caught 

in the length of his hair

gracing his shoulders,

framing a deep, dark

alluring countenance

 

She sat quietly aside him

Her heart beating the echo

of his own life …

Gently nudging her soft,

golden skin

Her hair resplendent in flowers,

An ochre that made her eyes

alive, deep and green

 

He sat quietly

touching her other thigh

The embers catching his blonde

bronzed features

Three united in one

One being

Three people

 

Sex lay close by

A glorious incantation of light

passion

reverie

pure love

No debauchery

neither male nor female

Whole

Wrapt in a gown of splendour

dreamed of by artists

but way, way beyond their reach

In another dimension

One of hundreds, nay,

thousands, the more like!

 

Beauty strode quietly 

along the beach

The cool of the tide on feet

ready to awaken her companion

from slumber

Both ready to lift them

to a new scene of euphoria

No demarcation

No frontier

No threat to humankind

No abomination in sight

Souls alighted

Spirits soared

Happiness reigned

in this ethereal realm

 

At daybreak

Beauty summoned her companion

They ventured onto the water

Walking the path

emerging from the morning sun

 

Their charges slept …

An hour they would wake

laugh, giggle and chatter …

Splash about the rock pools

before making their way back

to the motor high above

the sand dunes



The last flicker

in the embers,

collapsing inward

 

Coffee on the tide’s turn

A delicate breakfast

Then to work

And yeah, sure,

Let’s meet again tonight

everyone!

 

We have life

We are free

We have stepped outside the box

Our morals are intact

 

We have a new perspective



Ian Bradley Marshall

25 October 2024
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Composed 21 April 2021



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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.