End of the Road (Ragtag Daily Prompt)

~ JezzieG

Inspired by and written for the Ragtag Daily Prompt, my thanks to Bushboy

Ragtag Daily Prompt Thursday: End of the Road

Form: Zejel

I found a pebble on the beach
It lay within the tidal reach
Beneath blue skies where seagulls screech

Pebble please will you answer me
How does it feel there in the sea
Rushed by the tides, can you be free
I asked the pebble on the beach

‘It’s a journey’ the pebble said
‘It ends with shore on which I’m laid
Before that, I don’t see ahead’
Now it’s here in the tidal reach

Journey done, tomorrow is closed
From the deep it has been exposed
I pick it up to be transposed
To echoes of a seagull’s screech

Here in the cottage at the lane’s end
Round the corner and past the bend
Upon on a shelf, my stoney friend
That dear pebble from on the beach

©JezzieG2024

Published by JezzieG

I am a freelance writer and poet and started writing after raising my two boys as a way of discovering just who Jez is. That is still very much an ongoing project but the journey so far has introduced me to many wonderful friends and fellow writers through an ever-growing love of poetry.

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