Who are they looking for anyway

This poem was inspired by the metal men/ statues on Crosby beach. Writen by Audrey Hogan and illustrated with photographs taken on her digital camera in September 2008.

Extract from Peom:

We wondered on the beach at Crosby Mumble Sands
And saw the tide go out leaving rivulets,
Exposing the jelly fish,
Photographing every thing that caught our eye,
The metal men standing all over the beach,
They were staring defiantly out to sea,
Some knee deep in sand,
Some wearing tattered garments,
Which some thought modesty demanded?
Others stood naked as the day they were born,
Cloned by their creator, 
Being a kind of duplication, of his own fifty-ish year old body?
They stare at the sea the horizon the windmills!
Mans latest answer to the energy crisis,
They stand sentinel as it were looking out to sea for ships on the horizon?
Watchful and alert ready for anything,