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The Boating Decision
I remember the day
The day I said goodbye
That day I sailed away
The day I made you cry
My ship I hopped aboard
Been calling me to come
For wages room and board
Would nine months be my home
Swabbing decks cleaning rooms
Drinks were free food was good
Keeping busy time zoomed
Happy not, bad were moods
Payday came hopped the boat
Ship work is not my thing
Coming near, near your home
Hear the bell, be my ring
Know now I should be here
Have you close cozy near
Bad mistake
Please be home
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A Landlubbers Envy |
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- Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved
- Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2015 [URL] taken by me at the Little Venus Canal Boat Show which is held annually at Westminster, London, U.K.
- I am linked with Rommy for hosting Friday Writings #113 at https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/?m=1
She offered su an optional prompt posted at the end of these notes. I chose to post this one instead.
- I'm also linked with Merril at dVerse Poetics here, for her prompt for this poem
for the prompt subject and word to use, "ship or boat"
- Click here to read other dVerse writers' works for the prompt
- Rommy has invited "us to write poetry or prose about our favorite modern convenience or invention."
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Those were the days, when young people joined the navy, got on with the hard work, and enjoyed the travel. But it’s not for everyone, as your poem shows, Jim. I always fancied living on a barge, though.
ReplyDeleteThroughout the ages, men have gone to sea for temporary or permanent work. I'm glad the narrator came home to his love. Canal boat/house boars seem very different.
ReplyDeleteI think it is a life people often dream about... but I understand it is usually very booring, and these days you don't even stay in port that long
ReplyDeleteSometimes we learn by experience. Life on land seems much more appealing especially when with the one you love!
ReplyDeleteIt is a tough life.
ReplyDeleteI like boating – but as passenger rather than crew!
ReplyDeleteI am not a water or a boat person either lol so I am with you I wouldn't have enjoyed that
ReplyDeleteA couple of days sailing somewhere far away sounds nice.. but longer than that... am not so sure.. would be nice to try though!! (definitely not one of those cruise ships)
ReplyDeleteI like being on a boat, but can't imagine how anyone would spend more than a day on one!
ReplyDelete(Priscilla King)
I've only ever been on a cruise ship, which is a very different experience!
ReplyDeleteI always thought it'd be fun to work on one of the Great Lakes freighters, maybe as a cook. It would get old after a while, as you say. Now that the climate is changing the freighters can stay out there most of the winter. No ice this year at all.
ReplyDeleteI could have stowed you away on the yacht!!! LOL.
ReplyDeleteHome is where the heart is.❤️
ReplyDeleteI'm glad he came to his senses, and I pray she is merciful.
ReplyDeleteI remember those days. They were bittersweet, weren't they? All right, there was probably more bitter--leaving home and loves and such behind. Still, there was also the excitement of what might come...
ReplyDeleteI love the way you wrote this, as if a journal entry or perhaps a letter.
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