Photo Haiku

Tag: Boscastle

  • 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…

  • 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.