Sometimes at the Beach, by Charlie Rossiter

The Horizon, by Rene Magritte (Belgium), 1938.

Sometimes at the Beach

there’s a feeling of being at the centre,
in tune with the rhythm of the waves
and the larger rhythm of the tides.

Laid back, looking up,
in full contact,
warm sand all up and down

The cloudless sky 
and the long flat horizon,
nothing man-made.

Bankers and business men
in long serious overcoats
are distant notions.

Only the sand is real,
and the sun-bleached driftwood,
the occasional gull whose harsh cries
call out the sky.

Charlie Rossiter

This poem was written for the Surprise Challenge, ekphrastic poetry about Magritte paintings.

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