Sea Changes
Milky opaline morning sky
smooth shimmering quicksilver sea.
Village on the point illuminated,
pink church and cream yellow houses
watercoloured by the first sunlight.
Then cobalt blue noonday bay
with glittering wave-tips diamond set.
duck-egg blue enamelled overhead,
white chiffon clouds haphazardly strewn.
Dull gunmetal water late afternoon
with wide sparkling hammered-silver sunpath
leading far out beyond the horizon.
Scaly mother-of-pearl cloud croccodile,
the village now just a flat grey cutout.
At evening a flaming copper sundisk,
invisible islands now magically summoned up.
Brilliant polished steel pool- surface
stabbed by murderous black shardlike shadows.
Then the so sudden day's end comes,
a midnight blue all enveloping dome
over dark dark slow moving water.
Three lonely stars lost in immensity,
only a smiling bright lemon yellow moon
friendly in this late autumn night.
Don Matthews
Thu 3rd Oct 2019 16:35
Oh?.....watercolour's not a verb?....could've fooled me.....?