Great Ocean Road Series #1253 Gibson Steps

 

The sea is practising its old language,
white syllables breaking at our ankles.
A rock kneels in the shallows,
scarred, patient, older than the word before.

Three figures argue with the tide
one runs, one braces, one watches
their shadows briefly stitched to wet sand
before the water edits them away.

Behind us, the cliffs hold their breath.
Ahead, a lone stack stands offshore,
a sentence left unfinished
after centuries of erosion.

The wind smells of salt and endings.
Laughter is flung like a stone,
skips once, twice,
then disappears into foam.

Here, time is not counted in hours
but in waves touching skin, retreating,
touching again
as if the ocean is reminding us
we are temporary,
and that is the point.

Sony A7RV

FE 14mm f1.8 GM

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Great Ocean Road Candid Series #1252 Gibson Steps

 

Up the Gibson Steps she climbs,
between cliff and sky,
salt on the wind,
sand still clinging to her shoes.

Each stair lifts her from the roar
of waves gnawing ancient stone,
from the wide, empty beach
to the narrow line of land above.

The ocean keeps speaking below,
white breath against dark rock,
while sunlight sketches shadows
along the weathered rail.

Here, every step is borrowed time
from cliffs that slowly fall to sea;
a quiet ascent through wind and light
on the ragged edge of the world.

Sony A7RV

FE 50mm f1.2 GM

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