Look seaward west where
Sun’s gone down pale mauve striped pink
Cloud dimming shadows
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That photographer
With his spotlight on the beach
Where people are shades
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The silver ocean’s
Rippled blue reflecting waves
Whishing softly by
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Offshore windmills stand
Like far off crucifixes
Harvesting the sky
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Spirits whisper power
To earth and air and water
Resurrecting time.
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Photos of Scheveningen Beach, The Hague, by Freddie Oomkens
Freddie Omm’s Sicilian Haiku—Migrant Shadows, published by Mad Bear Books in September 2024, also features sunset-linked poetry, notably in Sunsets.
Sunsets explores how we idealise our lives, while being deeply suspicious of such.
Sunsets’ imagery is filtered through a rich spectrum of sundown light, albeit Sicilian, rather than Scheveningean.
