Hymn to the Sea' by the Barbadian poet Frank Collymore :
"Always, always the encircling sea,
eternal : lazy lapping, crisscrossed with stillness;
Or wind ruffed, aglitter with gold.....
Her lullaby, her singing, her moaning; on sand,
On shingle, on breakwater, and on rock;
By sunlight, starlight, moonlight, darkness:
I must always be remembering the sea."
Sarah
8th December 2017