A Lost Other World

Ilford Pan F (Ricoh XR7) with some post-processing

See link for details of project and poem credit...

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No lame excuses can gloss over

Barge-tar clotted at the tide-line, the wrecked pier.

I should have known better.

 

Fifteen years between me and the bay

Profited memory, but did away with the old scenery

And patched this shoddy

 

Makeshift of a view to quit

My promise of an idyll.

The blue's worn out

 

Unless you do this tawdry harbour

A service and ignore it, I go a liar

Gilding what's eyesore,

 

Or must take loophole and blame time

For the rock's dwarfed lump, for the drabbled scum,

For a churlish welcome.

Done