http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/the-norfolk-coast-a-poem Just another bbPress community en-US Thu, 23 May 2013 09:30:19 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/the-norfolk-coast-a-poem#post-17695 Mon, 07 May 2007 23:12:00 +0000 blackadder 17695@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Hi Stephen;<br /> I am the unoffical Lynn poet - I write about subjects which move me, some time ago I wrote this poem about the Norfolk coast as writen by someone who is a Norfolk man but is far from home, I through in light of some of the coastal scenes shot for Kingdom you might enjoy it;<br /> <br /> My thoughts drift back to the Norfolk coast,<br /> A place I know and miss,<br /> The salty breeze across the beach,<br /> Cutting lines in my face as I look out to sea,<br /> The December wind icy and quick,<br /> Fills my lungs with life and makes my head light,<br /> A feeling stronger than drink or drugs could make,<br /> The sky is a collage of shape and colour,<br /> Small blue islands appear and disappear,<br /> Among a sea of white and Grey clouds,<br /> A mirror image of what is beneath,<br /> I use to stand upon the silken dunes,<br /> And watch the barbed waves break upon the beach,<br /> They seem to whisper inside my head ‘Watch me, watch me’,<br /> I would sometimes would leave my body and see myself from the sea,<br /> Standing alone, still and spell bound,<br /> My hands buried deep inside my pockets palms sweating,<br /> Fuelled with the passion that burns inside my heart,<br /> The golden crescent of sand that is my county,<br /> I have been away to long,<br /> My mind stretches too much when I think of home,<br /> I should return, I must return,<br /> The world has many wonders,<br /> Many religions, creeds and politics,<br /> But I am at peace with my maker when alone on my beach in winter,<br /> My troubled mind is like the troubled sea,<br /> I long for the calm, I long for my homeland,<br /> I long for my Norfolk coast.