Iona
by John Stocks
There would always have been beauty.
The potent benefice of sunset Would have fallen on the blood-red tide: The dismembered limbs, hacked heads At Martyrs Bay And on the bronzed faces of tourists Clicking Canons back to Mull and Oban Or the faces of the grieving mothers With sons lost in the mud of Flanders. At twilight, pagan and pilgrim The roar from the ocean’s mighty swell, There will always be beauty here. And one morning from the edge of time |
Seascapes at Iona, Scotland
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Copyright © 2009 by
John Stocks
illustrations researched by the editor