Photo Haiku

Tag: boat

  • Dark?

    Is it the dark side,
    Or the light side in the shade?
    Or could it be both?

    The image is from the Witchcraft Museum in Boscastle, Cornwall. Is it a force of evil, or a misunderstood force for good, misunderstood and condemned? If you draw a 6 on a piece of paper, the person opposite will read a 9. Both are correct, it just depends on your point of view. The truth is not absolute, good and bad is relative. Terrorist or freedom fighter depends on which side of oppression you are on. Here endeth the lesson – sorry, I didn’t realise it was going this way when I started…

  • Messy

    Life can be messy,
    Weighed down by reality.
    Rise free of the weeds!

    This boat, in the harbour at Appledore in Wales, was clearly unused, and feeling the depression of abandonment. In my mind I saw the possibility that it would get its act together, rise up, and shrug off all the seaweed. Then when the tide came in, it would leave the harbour proud and defiant.

  • Moored

    Kept safe on the sand,
    The low tide and mooring lines
    Keep her from driftin    g.

    Hopefully you are comfortable with the pronoun. She identifies both as a boat and a female, which is why most boats have female names. Except this one, which is a fishing boat and therefore has initial letters to identify the home port followed by a number.
    But the real question is what came first? The boat or the mooring as the main point of interest. It was the rusty mooring loop. Now you know.

  • Obsolete

    The barge lies rusting
    The power station shut down.
    Soon these will be gone.

    Ratcliffe was the last of the coal fired power stations in the UK. Before it gets pulled down, I went to grab some shots. The chosen viewpoint was at a nearby marina, which has a huge area of abandoned, broken and, in some cases, rotting boats. The fact is that neither seem likely to last much longer.

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