Sinclair Bay
Sky
falls
into
navy night
Stars blink in lighthouse
beams. Splashes carry in slipstreams
Crabs & seaweed swim on wave’s
longshore drifts. Sandpipers
teeter, seek worms, molluscs, insects
Stiff bowed wings betrayed
by three note
cawing
Flies
off
Buddleja Davidii
Wings
shut
unfurl
fly onto
buddleia bushes
Purple flowers bloom. Butterflies
feast nectar with smell of honey from
spikes dense cluster
Winged seeds propagate stony ground
Spawns far but not North
A cutting
from East
to
West
Flotsam in Longshore Drifts
Stones
are
big rocks
transported
to shores, patios
mantles. I am searchlight seeking
their fossils in sedimentary on cold
shorelines
A tiny dragon sits in times
past, not museums
It’s Phoenix
risen
Fly
by(e)
The Flow Country
North
of
there is
a wide patch
of peat bog magic
lochans, water kelpies, dragon
fly. Sphagnum moss captures carbon
from human folly
Muirburn and melt waters raging
Pearl inside seed pods
Ashes birth
Renew
sun
dew
The Hill o’ Many Stanes
Hill
side
strewn with
standing stones
Who planted them there?
With such precision in fan shape
Wild blackberries at their gate. I
kneel, palm their ley lines
Absorb energies into me
I am litmus to
their lichen
Melting
stress
sighs
Mandy Beattie’s poetry’s been published in, Poets Republic, Drawn to The Light, Lothlorien, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Dreich, Visual Verse, WordPeace, Wildfire Words, Spilling Cocoa, Last Stanza, Poetry Super Highway, Crowstep, Spoonie, The Pen Points North, Full House Literary, Verse-Virtual, 5 Words, Abridged, anthologies & more. Short stories including, Howl New Irish Writing. Big Girl’s Village Lockdown Showcase, House of Commons. Poets Choice, Marble Poetry. Shortlisted, 10th International Five Words; Creative Future Writer’s Award & Black Box Competitions. Forthcoming publications in, Morecambe Festival Anthology & Knee Brace Press. Best of The Net Nominee.
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