Of Limpets & the Ebb and Flow of Stress

Gold cherry

By Rhiannonw

Sat, 04 Aug 2018
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(Littoral life)
Storms and drought,
constant turn-about
comfort zone ebbs away –
challenges bitter
confuse and batter –
the frying, drying heat –
(exposed to shocks
malicious knocks),
longing to bathe once more
in cushion-medium as before
but wrapped in armour-plating, waiting
shell-sheltered, sealed with capture
of essential moisture
– internal cache, to sustain
until the tide has turned again.

[Poetry monthly August: littoral (I’m using it in the sense of inter-tidal ecoZone, metaphorically)]

Photograph my own, Porteinon, Gower

 

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Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you for the cherries. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

Lovely limpets illustrated in words, it makes me think their limpet lives are not so unlike ours with the endless cycle of day and night, work and rest. Cruel to try and prize them from the rock but we've all done it I think. Love the idea of them waiting in their shell shelters.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Jane. I wrote about the shore life a long time ago, and the dialy changes-challenges. As I worked on this idea, this time, I was reminded of how God's Spirit gives me spirit-sustaining moisture, and armour that helps me in stress cycles. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

Wow, a new way of looking at limpets. Yes the roasting summer may cause them discomfort but as you say, they have protection.

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Elsie. They do seem to have good protection, if we leave them alone. May we find help in our perseverances. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

"comfort zone ebbs away" is wonderful description of tide going out for all the sea life left behind. And how clever to think of shell with shelter. Never knowing where the shocks and malicious knocks might come from, waiting in faith for the cushion to return

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Di. Glad you found it worked naturally and metaphorically!. Rhiannon