Pilot climbs up jacob’s ladder
Scales the ship, commands the rudder
Safe to port in any weather
Guide through night and day
Posts Tagged ‘bay’
Jacob’s Ladder
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged bay, captain, ladder, pilot, port, sea lane Chesapeake, ship channel on August 16, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Things Change
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged bay, change of seasons, Chesapeake Bay, eagle, horshoe crab, impermanence, osprey, sailing, sailor, tide, waves, windshift on February 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The breeze clocks ‘round and freshens
Laughing sailors spring to tend the sheets
Necks crane to watch the telltales flutter
All hands eagerly the windshift greet
