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Penguin on the Beach

Ruth Miller

Michael Simonetti

Ruth Miller

Ruth Miller

- Ruth Miller was Born in 1919 in Uitenhage, South Africa.

- She grew up in the northern Transvaal and spent her adult life in Johannesburg. She worked as a school secretary and later an English teacher.

- She died of cancer in 1969.

- She wrote short stories and plays, but she is best known for her poems, which were frequently anthologised.

- She won the Ingrid Jonker Prize for her first volume of poems, "Floating Islands (1965)'. A second collection Selected Poems appeared in 1968 in the Phoenix Living Poets series.

Ruth Miller

Ruth Miller

Oil Spill

The Video below will explain the reasoning for oil spills being so hazardous to marine life, focusing on marine birdlife

Oil Spill

https://youtu.be/S4xeWY1ouSw

Oil and Marine life

Oil and marine life

Stanza 1

Stranger in his own element,

Sea-casualty, the castaway manikin

Waddles in his tailored coat-tails. Oil

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Stanza 2

Has spread a deep commercial stain

Over his downy shirt front. Sleazy, grey,

It clogs the sleekness. Far too well

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Stanza 3

He must recall the past, to be so cautious:

Watch him step into the waves. He shudders

Under the froth; slides, slips, on the wet sand,

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Stanza 4

Escaping to dryness, dearth, in a white cascade,

An involuntary shouldering off of gleam.

Hands push him back into the sea. He stands

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Stanza 5

In pained and silent expostulation.

Once he knew a sunlit, leaping smoothness,

But close with his head’s small knoll, and dark,

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Stanza 6

He retains the image: Oil on sea,

Green slicks, black lassoos of sludge

Sleeving the breakers in a stain-spread scarf.

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Stanza 7

He shudders now from the clean flinching wave,

Turns and plods back up the yellow sand,

Ineffably wary, triumphantly sad.

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He is immensely wise: he trusts nobody. His senses

Are clogged with experience. He eats

Fish from the Saviour’s hands, and it tastes black.

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