Queenie's Sea Garden (Poetry)

Ref: The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce

The sea sings in her garden
breeze whistles through the stones
and serenades the driftwood
in resonating tones

and the ghosts of long-dead sailors
lean on her pebbled wall
and yarn about adventures
such pirate tales stretched tall ...

Sea-weather sculpts at random
with rough and salt-sharp hands
it rakes up banks of shingle
and chasens silver sands

for there in Queenie’s garden
the elements alone
paint free with light and shadow
cut beauty to the bone

while wind chimes play raw music
lost keys plucked from the tide
strung high to softly tinkle
jazz tunes they improvise.

Sea lavender and rocket
sand-spurrey, beet and thrift
horned poppies and wild cabbage
survive each season’s shift

and thrive in Queenie’s garden
obeying Nature’s law
a horticultural wonder
just a stone’s throw from the shore.