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
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Riding white horses
Along a haunted shoreline
In a windswept bay
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South Steel to North Steel
No bloody sword ever fought
Over this small land
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A touch of rosé
A perky beak struts a stripe
Yellow dives at speed
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Seals and sirens wail
Sailors mistaken, drown again
Ghosts ships sail on by
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The square lighthouse beckons
Visit to a lonely sibling
Grace rowed to her death
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Glass sea, becalmed day
Hint of grey drifts by the boat
All hands shift to port