Treasure under every stone ...

We walked over the dazzling whiteness of the pebbles - 

Dads licked ice cream from fragile cones - 

A girl with long brown legs carried a paddle board - 

Her boy swam gasping in the cove - 

The sky was a flawless end of year blue -

There was treasure under every stone - 

I picked up a seaweed necklace - 

I had the words of a new story in my head - 

A new song on my tongue - 

28 December 2021

Lulworth Cove

Dorset