Doggerland, Dunwich, Dogsthorpe – Cardinal Cox
Inspired by Whittlesey Mere and climate change
The water’s waiting to once more come back
To surge and refill old Whittlesea Mere
One spring tide the foam will front the attack
Sometime soon white-topped waves will be back here
The old rivers flood and dykes overflow
That new housing estate? One big puddle
Rich black peat fields fill, it will not be slow
Every retirement plan now a muddle
Those seldom glimpsed marsh flowers again bloom
Pike swim after eels amongst garden sheds
Toads sit proud on lichen touched churchyard tombs
There’s thick lillies over concrete gnomes’ heads
Clouds gathering out over the North Sea
Million tonnes of ice waiting to be free.