Guiding Light

hot taken Maryport Lighthouse (Harbour entrance) at sunset

Down by the lighthouse at the harbour entrance

The fisher men gather at high tide

Baiting their lines

Casting them to the rising sea

 

To catch a meal

A tasty morsel

Tomorrows dinner

Food for the family

 

Fishing boats are gone

To places afar

Places they seek

Where the fish are plenty

 

Cast their nets to the sea

Now the wait

Haul them back

Inspect the catch

 

Empty the nets

Cast them back

So it goes

Until time for home

 

Guiding light

Still shining bright

Shows the way

To home and family

 

Catch is emptied

Sorted sold

Gone to shops

Food for the people

 

Wild Rose

February 2019

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

beautiful scene painted with your words...reminds me of being at the oldest park in the states in Salem, Mass...looking out at the Atlantic and then looking back at the big house with railed roof where the wives waited for their fishermen husbands to come home from sea.
j.

[Wild Rose]

Thank you
This is the opposite side of the pond
A reminder of a more relaxed time

[Chris Shaw]

Your words are a fine match for your posted imagery Wild Rose. I very much enjoyed your lines about fishermen catching fish for their family and for their living. I love staying at Brixham in Devon which is a small fishing town, so I can be close to this lifestyle. Not an easy occupation, out in all weather's, but a very satisfying one.

Chris

[Wild Rose]

Thanks Christine - Yes I know Brixham (or did)
Fishermen and farmers - out in all weathers

[Ken Simm.]

I could see this as part of a documentary film. such an evocative piece wonderfully told.

[Wild Rose]

Thanks > It would be nice if it could be done

[Muskan]

Presented clearly ,with an ease flow of words😊

[Wild Rose]

Thanks Muskan - the end to a day out. I was actually after the fishermen . then the light came on (automatically now)

[Stella Armour]

Men fishing to feed their families since time immemorial, a wonderful skill handed from fathers to sons the trusty beacon of the lighthouse to lead the way home.
A lovely photograph to enhance the mood of the poem ...

[Wild Rose]

Thank you Stella
Yes two different classes of fishing here
Lines cast from the pier and from boats

Actually the picture came first with words to suit