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
21 December 2024
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© 2021 Ian Bradley Marshall
Composed 21 April 2021
Digital Artwork by © IBM © KTW unless otherwise credited
Wrapt in Splendour
Three united in one
One being
Three people
At daybreak…
At daybreak
Beauty summoned her companion
They ventured onto the water
Walking the path
emerging from the morning sun
Photo by Dainis Graveris on Unsplash
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.
