Low Tide At Night Poem

By Anonymous -



Hello Bloggers, We read a poem in my reading group called 'Low Tide At Night'. Look below to read the poem.


Low Tide At Night


Mounds of Seaweed whisper.
Salt seeps into the sand.
Limpets browse, scrape tracks along boulders
Etching grey scrolls into dark algae.

Lugworms hide in mud caves
Marked by coils and holes
That open and close in measured time;
Seven gulps of air till the flood tide.

Circled by bladder-wrack
Rock pools are black opals.
Pebbles and shells discarded by waves
Freckle a beach bare of daytime hordes.

Far off, asleep, the sea:
Lights mark another shore.
Meantime, a crab waits his hardening shell
Under a blanket of whispered seaweed song.
                                      Catherine Benson




Once we read the poem we had to answer some questions, here are the questions. Also, I created a Google Drawing with some pictures from the poem, look below to see that.

  1. What are the Limpets doing? What does ‘browse’ mean?: The limpets are all over the place, I think browse means be go around the area doing something.
  2. What does etching grey scrolls into dark algae mean?: Leaving a tracks on rocks.
  3. How long is it before the mud caves are flooded?: Seven gulps of air.
  4. What are the rock pools circled with?: Bladder-Wrack a type of algae
  5. Is the beach busy? How do you know?: No, because it says the beach is bare.
  6. What have the waves left behind?: Shells and pebbles.
  7. What state is the sea in? How do you know?: The sea is healthy because there is a lot of sea creatures living on the beach
  8. What do you think the author means by seaweed song?: The light whistling sound from the wind.






Thank you for reading my school work, I really appreciate it. I'd love to reply to some Helpful, positive and thoughtful comments. Blog you later!

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