No 8 in the Jemverse series ‘Down in Dorset’

By the orange cliffs at Seaton on the beach is a dead tree looking like a natural sculpture beside East Devon's sea Of course I had to get a closer look so I walked along the beach til I was close to where it was with it in easy reach It really was quite lovely sculpted there by nature's hand A little sad that it was dead yet still it's proud to stand
Apparently it got there when a massive chunk of cliff one winter slipped into the sea coastal erosion shift And the tree it was deposited upright and still alive where for several years it prospered and continued there to thrive But battered by the winter storms and exposed there to the sea its demise was written in the wind so died one year sadly And yet its stump and whitened roots remain there to this day here on the beach at Seaton In East Devon long to stay
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Photo – Jempics