Our Shipwrecks

                                                              Newcastle NSW

SUNDAY SCRIBBLINGS

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has chosen the topic ' Shipwreck'.

OUR SHIPWRECKS

Walk along Nobby's Breakwater; turn your eyes from the land

And imagine all the wrecks beneath the sea.

The mouldering hulks seem vanished, but some are lying there,

A sorry part of our city's history.

And somewhere, if we could find them, lie forgotten human remains,

Skeletons, including  ancient skulls,

And the waves beat above them ceaselessly, with that ageless maritime roar,

Joining in the chorus of the gulls.

And they were flesh and blood like us, they had their hopes and dreams;

And the Hunter River seemed a haven then;

So near the land they foundered, yet most could not be saved;

Remember them, these long-forgotten men.

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TRANSFORMATION

An agapanthus leaf, as everybody knows,

Is smooth and curved and leathery; that's the way it grows!

Yet its shadow seems to be all spiky and serrated

Just like the leaves of some sort of fern, which cannot be related!

What a trick of shading! What a sleight of hand!

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One overhung the other.

Now you understand!

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