Camber Spindrift (reversed acrostic)
Camber Spindrift walks the seashore
Avid for the spoils of time
Meticulous in what she garners
Brought to view by swelling brine
Eclectic treasures Camber gathers
Reft from ancient sunken lives
Spun from spindles of the ages
Printed by the lingered minds.
If Camber stands upon the headland
Narrowed by the wakened sun
Dappled in the clouds that scurry
Rippled by the schools that run
In that moment blink and miss her
For she’s shifting in the light
Tied to nothing but her seashore
Flown with rainbows in her sight.
I have seen her slight and lovely
Round about the close of day
Drifting ankle deep in sea foam
Newly springing from the bay
In simple kirtle Camber wanders
Pinned with coral-cradled coins
Spilled from chests whose earthly owners
Roamed the waters since rejoined.
Elfin eyes meet mine in greeting
Briefly kissed by sidelong glance
May I share her seaborne gleanings
Asking nothing, touched by chance…
Child of time; by time entranced
Avid for the spoils of time
Meticulous in what she garners
Brought to view by swelling brine
Eclectic treasures Camber gathers
Reft from ancient sunken lives
Spun from spindles of the ages
Printed by the lingered minds.
If Camber stands upon the headland
Narrowed by the wakened sun
Dappled in the clouds that scurry
Rippled by the schools that run
In that moment blink and miss her
For she’s shifting in the light
Tied to nothing but her seashore
Flown with rainbows in her sight.
I have seen her slight and lovely
Round about the close of day
Drifting ankle deep in sea foam
Newly springing from the bay
In simple kirtle Camber wanders
Pinned with coral-cradled coins
Spilled from chests whose earthly owners
Roamed the waters since rejoined.
Elfin eyes meet mine in greeting
Briefly kissed by sidelong glance
May I share her seaborne gleanings
Asking nothing, touched by chance…
Child of time; by time entranced