Ode To Seaside Piers

Viewed from nature's sandy scenes

Those pegged out, sea-stumped wooden beams

Topped by domes of garish greens

Housed candy flossy fruit machines.

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Trod boarded slats and feared the deep

To risk our buy of trinkets cheap

Ate toffee apples on a stick

The hats we wore said 'kiss me quick'.

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Found sherbet sweets and punching balls

And wide-eyed fortune teller's stalls

Automatons that laughed and rocked

Commanded by purse pennies dropped.

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The skies alive with gull-winged caws

As bingo players checked their scores

The dodgem cars flashed sparks from beams

Your money's lost on prize machines.

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As tide-washed sea soup crashed to shore

Excited children squealed for more.

We posted cards: 'Wish you were here'.

Ah, memories of the seaside pier!