On old Cape Cod

Chapter 71: The Song Of The Sea Gulls

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About This Book

A collection of lyrical poems that celebrates and mourns a coastal landscape through images of dunes, marshes, sea, winds, birds, flowers, lighthouses, shipwrecks, and changing seasons. The work blends close natural observation with wistful memory and maritime lore, moving between quiet descriptive pieces and dramatic evocations of storms and loss. Recurring motifs such as salt, sand, driftwood, and light bind domestic scenes and seafaring sketches to themes of transience, rootedness, and the consoling, restorative power of place.

The Song Of The Sea Gulls

Hark how the sea gulls are screaming with glee

Piercing as Pipes of Pan!

Keening their songs to the beach and the sea

Sung since the world began;

O’er breakers combing in jubilant strife,

Flecked with their foaming and throbbing with life,

Here they come homing - O shrill as a fife

List to their wild elan!

They are the spirits exultant and free,

Up in the clouds they belong.

Ever aspiring in skyland to be,

Theirs is the verve of the strong.

Here they go steering through canyons of air,

Onward careering, and eager to dare,

Scornful of fearing with never a care

List to the lilt of their song!