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What is Poetry? Poetry is choosing words with care DORSET COUNCIL- WEST PURBECK REPORT
To explain our innermost feeling
Poetry is simply a message Hoping to please the listening ear Summer Visitors
A message that comes from your heart That the picture they paint is appealing.
An expression of inner happiness Dorset Council is part of a multi-agency
A delight to share and impart. A marriage of ideas and phrases group of partners including Dorset
Where visions and beauty are planned Police, Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and
A statement of gratitude to life Where mankind lives in harmony Rescue Service, Dorset health partners
and BCP Council, working together to
For all her bounteous treasure And love and peace walk hand in tackle some of the more undesirable
For flowers that colour our summer hand. experiences from last year.
days
And bird song, a joy beyond measure. Eileen Richardson Dorset attracts around 3.6 million
overnight visits and 26.4 million day-
visitors annually. In June last year travel restrictions had been relaxed but hotels,
campsites and public toilets remained closed due to Covid-19. Dorset’s most
Dutch Waterscape popular destinations became overcrowded and experienced problems with
What lovely view to delight our eyes?’ littering, illegal parking and outdoor toileting. Summer 2021 is likely to be very busy
again, with ‘stay-cationers’ looking for a coastal retreat but possibly unable to
Not a sound to break the silence travel abroad until later in the season. Hotspots last summer included West Bay,
Not a distant bell to chime ‘Would there be a graceful windmill? West Bexington, Weymouth, Lulworth and Swanage.
The whole world seemed so peaceful A lifting bridge or a lock?
The only thing to move was time. A church to remind us time was passing DORSET has been awarded more than £816,000 as part of a government initiative
With the slowly moving hands on the to help towns reopen as restrictions ease. The money, announced by Communities
All the days were warm and sunny clock?’ Secretary Robert Jenrick, comes from the government’s wider £56 million Welcome
Back Fund scheme. BCP Council has been awarded more than £416,000 and
The nights silky smooth like balm Dorset Council more than £400,000.
The water in the canals like a millpond As we slowly floated past the reed
Like a sea that was forever calm. beds Using this Government
A glimpse of grebe with chicks at play funding, the Council will
The scene that passed was ever Moorhens and ducks on their floating employ more parking
changing nests wardens, put in place more
At every bend there was something The heron, a fisherman waiting for his waste bins and collections,
new prey. improved signage to warn of
Picturesque houses, small and grand dangers of disposable BBQs
and they are considering a
Our eyes were enchanted by each They say in Holland that God made the possible ban on beach
view. world camping at some sites,
But the Dutch created their own land where there are currently no
We wondered ‘What’s hiding round But I wonder if they made it together? restrictions. However, this will
the corner? If by Man and nature this scene was not stop any determined law
Round the bend what scenic beauty planned? breakers, so we have
lies? requested that the police
What picture will nature have Eileen Richardson adopt a greater and more high profile role in responding to incidents.
painted?

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