On the Island

on the island martin bradley

A digital chap book published by The Blue Lotus Publishing

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on the island

Copyright © 2022 Martin A Bradley A digital chap book published by The Blue Lotus Publishing, Colchester, Essex, England 2022

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on the island poem and pictures by

martin bradley

A digital chap book published by The Blue Lotus Publishing

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Mersea Island This is a chap book containing a poem and some images I’ve taken on Mersea Island.

There’s a clue in the name Mersea Island.

Mersea is an island. The definition of an island is land surrounded by water. Mersea Island, which lays off the Eastern Coast of another island (comprising of England, Scotland and Wales), is reached over a causeway called ‘The Strood’. At high-tide, that causeway floods, making the road impassable.

Since before Roman times Mersea has been inhabited. I only recently came to live here due to the island's peace and natural beauty.

It hasn't disappointed.

Martin, June 2022 7

On the Island These are Gravel Crunching Gleaming Sun kissed Doe staring Red squirrel Darting Island times

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Segueing to Cuckoo Calling Sweet Skylark Round Pigeon Robbin Perched Gull cry Filled Times Ivy Dappled By Flowering elder Times 13

Cherry Times Ripe Gracing Sharp thorn Crowding Quiet Nettle path Times Times of Perceptions Times Of Fusia roses

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Bright Rouge Sweet pea Times Brush Magenta poppies Towering From Vert Goddess Blessed Neo Renaissance Times

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Times of Gardens Rural of Lemon hued Fields Dancing Waving To Passing Omnibus's Scant Passengers Bound For Earl Grey Carrot cake Cafe And Rest 20

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Times Beyond Trackway Amid Meandering Saltmarsh Glistening Aisles Briny Breezes Dark Green Scents Mersea Melancholy

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Times when Below Porcelain cloud draped Lapis Skies Seascent Aisles Lead Strollers Monkey Beachwards

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Times To witness Periwinkle Nacre Lambent Mussell Clad Sands Wet With Sea retreat Becoming Bladderwrack Strewn

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Times when Vivid Sentinel Huts Spill Seasonal occupants Towels drying Buckets and Spades Castles leaking Back into sandy Seashore

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Times when Tiny Toes Canine Claws Return Sand kissed Happy Hungry Tired In time for Dinner Under Azure Skies In Summer Swelter 37

Times Of Sea Bass Undressed Skate Dressed crab Oysters Shucked In shacks Shells In heaps And Of Honey

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Times when On The Sun’s day Peter and Paul’s Rings Sweetly For Faithful To come Vibrating With Island Chimes

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Other times People Silhouetted Watched Island Sun disappearing Enabling Island Times

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In Feldy times Where Woody Green Oversees Wheat Poppies Remember Life Ends And continues It's All Birdsong And buz bees Times On The Island.

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ISSN 2754-9151 •2022 • THE BLUE LOTUS is published quarterly by The Blue Lotus Publishing (M.A.Bradley), Colchester, Essex, England, UK. © 2022 M.A.Bradley. All rights reserved.

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on the island (Mersea Island, Colchester, Essex, UK. Images and poem by Martin A Bradley, 2021/2)

Thank you for reading this chap book.

I do hope that you enjoyed it.

The Blue Lotus will continue publishing more digital chap books in the future Martin

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This is a digital chap book published by The Blue Lotus Publishing 2022