(more) Music

7 of 12 in the ‘My very best’ series

Lurking fog and drizzle falling
the sea a greyish green
Waves like monstrous ogres rising 
tossed by winds unseen

Alone on dampened shingle
taste of salt upon my lips
Braced to ocean’s vigour
gazing out to windward ships

I am the only audience
for this winter serenade
A symphony composed for one
perfect and uniquely made

This cacophony splendid
sounds cherished as my own
To me triumphant music
with cymbal crash and moan

Rhythm dragged across the shingle
drumbeat on the wooden groyne
Turns the staid and older man
back to the winsome boy

Enraptured there I listen 
as the music builds and plays
My heart a-flutter, eyes for tears
a glorious malaise

And as the white surf slips away
tumultuous applauds
Along with cries ‘Encore! Encore!’
I hanker after more.

©Jemverse

Photo – Jempics

[Music was first penned back in the late 1980s (I don’t have a precise date); first added to Jemverse in May 2014 and then reposted in August 2019 and again today]

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