Coquet Island

This set of haiku were written in response to a request for ‘36 Views Of Coquet Island’. Coquet Island sits permanently outside my bedroom window.

Waves, distant rumble

Sea worn stones, tumbled and thrown

Sand, the last quiet

 

Riding white horses

Along a haunted shoreline

In a windswept bay

 

South Steel to North Steel

No bloody sword ever fought

Over this small land

 

A touch of rosé

A perky beak struts a stripe

Yellow dives at speed

 

Seals and sirens wail

Sailors mistaken, drown again

Ghosts ships sail on by

 

The square lighthouse beckons

Visit to a lonely sibling

Grace rowed to her death

 

Glass sea, becalmed day

Hint of grey drifts by the boat

All hands shift to port