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Life Before the Mast

A Lauranelle for Potlatch Poetry

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Comment from Janice Canerdy
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This is a truly excellent poem--skillfully and creatively written and vividly descriptive, conveying a powerful message about how one may be lured into something that seems SO appealing--then can't escape.

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 Comment Written 09-Apr-2021


reply by the author on 09-Apr-2021
    A seaman's life was hard in those days. But it's the life many chose. Thank you so much for a lovely review.
Comment from T B Botts
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Whoa! How I wish I had six stars to award you for this. I spent four years in the navy, and since 1978 I've been a commercial fisherman. Not quite brown bread and brackish water, but there has been many a day when I wondered what I was doing there on the boat. Even worse the days when you're praying that God will get you to a safe harbor; that you won't be one of the unfortunate souls who've met their fate out on the sea. Very well done gal. Very well done. Congratulations.

Tom

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 Comment Written 09-Apr-2021


reply by the author on 09-Apr-2021
    Thank you. I'm so glad you could relate to my story poem. I have a great affinity with 'old salts,' so much that I think I must have been one in a former life. lol. Thank you for a wonderful review.