Garth Dutton

Cape Du Couedic, Kangaroo Island – A Poem

This poem is describing the beauty that is Cape Du Couedic, Kangaroo Island. I find it amazing how some places inspire you and others don’t. This place does.

Cape Du Couedic, Kangaroo Island
By Garth Dutton

Bare limestone rocks,
baked by sun, swept by wind and rain.
Small plants in holes and crevices
precarious footholds gain.
And far below the great swells roll.
They crash upon the shore.
I look south-west and think of distance,

Heard Island

South Georgia

Cape Horn.

The wind suddenly freshens.
A change in surf and tide.
Suggestions of a far-off storm,
but no clouds yet in the sky.
I take the walkway down the cliff
to the Arch I came to see.
I watch the seals amongst the rocks
in the surge of an autumn sea.

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1 Comment to Cape Du Couedic, Kangaroo Island – A Poem

1. 

   I’ve always wanted to go to Kangaroo Island but never been however, after reading your poem about Cape Du Couedic, I really want to go now.

   You write beautifully and I can’t wait for the next post.

   Corey
Corey Stewart on November 6th, 2008

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