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Seaside

Peter McCluskey 1958 (Dublin)

Free verse
Sunday summer morning after mass
bustling onto the bus the four of us and parents
falling out the doors soon after at Clery’s Clock
gamboling down to Amiens Street station
with our bags and sand buckets
our cousins and aunt waiting on the platform and
off we clatter on the train to the ocean and we sit
in our favourite spot and splash in the waves before
salad sandwiches and warm sugary tea but no time to linger
the periwinkles hear us coming and clamp onto the rocks
despite their determined steadfastness our aunt prises them
one by one they fall from their battlements and into her sun hat
with a final wave of our hands we climb for the station
we journey back to our northside home and happy as a summer clam.

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Seaside

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Written on January 01, 2023

Submitted by pmccluskey2 on January 17, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLDM
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 720
Words 134
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
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Peter McCluskey

Peter McCluskey is a contemporary fiction writer from Dublin, Ireland. Over the past twenty years he has contributed articles, reports and photographs to a variety of Irish and UK publications, including Hotpress, In Dublin, New Musical Express, Sounds Magazine. He has published four contemporary ficton novels to date Peter was commissioned in 2021 to create a bilingual (Polish & English) podcast children’s story for the Super Paua Theatre Group. In 2022, Pete had his poems published on poetry sites, Wildfire Words, Black Nore Review, Live Enclounters, Poetry Soup and Medium.Com. Peter is working on his first anthology of poetry, “The Flickering Tide” with a publication in 2023. His fifth contemporary fiction novel is curently in progress and due to complete in 2023. In late 2022, Pete was a chapter contributor to an anthology book titled “Punk’s Listen” – a collection of reviews of the most important punk albums released. (published: The Hope Collective). more…

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