Seals on Lindisfarne Sandbank
Staying once again on the beautiful Holy Island of Lindisfarne and privileged to be able to watch the tides from the lounge and bedroom windows. Sunday 10 days ago we experienced a wild wind which roared up the sound, so I tried to capture the moment and ... consider the future.
Seals and White Horses
(on a Lindisfarne Sandbank)
Twice a day,
some twenty score of seals
languidly allow themselves to succumb
to the encroaching sea,
as it steadfastly overwhelms
their sandbank resting-place.
But on this tide
a stampede of white horses
chases them
into forced retreat
before a fast-running tide,
driven by ferocious wind.
This wind has roared across the Atlantic
having wrought devastation-by-flooding
prior to leaving its last landfall.
Yet more extreme weather
resulting from the
undeniable climate chaos,
discerned by the truth-seeking,
broad-based research
of rightly sombre scientists.
Too soon, the sandbanks
will be permanently submerged.
No respite then for seals.
