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.