Christopher T. George

 Newark, Delaware, USA

 

Christopher T. George was born in Liverpool, England, in 1948. He emigrated to the US in 1955, but returned home to experience the “Swinging Sixties.” He re-emigrated to the US in 1968 and studied poetry with Sister Maura Eichner and Elliott Coleman; his writing has been published in journals worldwide. He has a poetry website at http://chrisgeorge.netpublish.net

 

Poem Completed 2nd August 2020

 

 

Revisiting Hilbre in My Mind

 

A lump of sandstone in my hand.

 

The tide goes in and the tide goes out

and when the tide goes out 

the people walk out:

 

naked footprints in wet sand

to find the tidewater island

and not be cut off when the tide comes in!

 

Sandstone cliffs, dinosaur footprints

and my childhood footprints 

walking with my grandparents

-- a place to go, sanctuary in a crazy world.