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I was reminded of this poem as I got
chatting to a couple of students in my favourite seaside resort of Brighton in
East Sussex recently. Both were on holiday from Italy with a view to going to
London for Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations this weekend.
Having only met for the first time earlier in the day, they were plainly so enjoying each other’s company.
Could it
be love, I wondered?
Whatever,
holiday romances are meant to be enjoyed to the full.
Photo: Northumberland coast, taken by Judith Rhodes
Oh, to be
young and so deliciously romantic again...!!!
Ah, but you don’t have to be young, either, to enjoy romance and more.
HOLIDAY
ROMANCE
There's a
shadow on the sand
that
points across the sea
to a
distant land - where once
you
walked with me,
your hand
in mine, our laughter
like
spray in a summer breeze,
desire
sparkling like diamonds
all
around, our joy the key
to such
rapturous harmony
of sea
and shore as ever seen
by lovers
who have surely passed
that way
before
Even now,
in a holiday crowd
I hear
you laughing aloud
as I
hoist our flag upon
a castle
in the sand, dreaming
of that
distant land - where once
we
strayed and dared to dream,
each for
the other, wage slaves
baying
for the moon, knowing
our time
together would be over,
too soon,
and we saved all our tears
till
after I had flown
Shadow on
the sand placing us
2000
years on...
[Note: An earlier version of this poem appears in Love and Human Remains by
R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2000.
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