SUNSET AT COBO

When I first visited Guernsey I stayed with friends in their apartment overlooking Cobo Bay on the west coast of the island. The bay was my own Paradise Found and the Ulster ‘Troubles’ seemed a million miles away. 

The beach at Cobo is beautiful and becomes more so at sunset. 

Let’s start with a poem I wrote long ago about a west coast sunset.

   

SUNSET AT COBO

Out-of-body experiences 

are said to be like this: 

a bright corridor, whose infinity 

of light spreads across water 

in ripples of diminishing red 

towards a richness of setting sun.

Barefoot among rock-pools, 

I feel contentment here 

on this west-facing shore, watching

my summer skim away 

as, over waves, 

a thrown stone dances.