Sunset at Marbery Mere, Cheshire
Michael Calum Jacques
All is too noisy, rowdy and blue,
Except that quiet I glean from you;
In latter times, on Summer eves,
When peach lit skies
Back-clothe your satin water stage.
All, too, is hectic, frantic and wild,
Except your consolation smiled,
In sultry times, on Summer eves,
When meadow quilts
Lie soft about your bushy beds.
Author's Note: This poem was inspired by the image shown (on a postcard dated 1909) after a visit to the Mere in the late Summer of 1990. It was completed in Vienna in the Autumn of that year.
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