Some boat-themed poetry has caught my imagination, and I'd like to share it with you.



"Sea-Fever" by John Masefield

and also "Ships" by John Masefield

Here's an excerpt from "Ships":

Those bows so lovely-curving, cut so fine,

Those coulters of the many-bubbled brine,

As once, long since, when all the docks were filled

With that sea-beauty, man has ceased to build

...

The life demanded by that art, the keen

Eye-puckered, hard-case seamen, silent, lean.

...

Earth will not see such ships as those again.

Carol